Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.

Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Cashmere - May 14, 2020 8:05:59 am PDT #25852 of 28176
Now tagless for your comfort.

I have a pile of books from the library glaring balefully at me, and yet I am re-reading fanfic like it's my second job.

Ignore those library books. They'll still be there.

I also need to get back to Tyack and Frain!

Harper Fox is releasing the latest in installments on Patreon. OMG!

I've been reading Cat Sebastian and delving into some historical romance I've never tried. I want to get Slippery Creatures, but I still have a bunch of KJ Charles I haven't read yet. I think I'm afraid I won't love any as much as I loved the Society of Gentlemen series.

So much good there.

I've a mind to send you Alexis Hall's The Affair of the Mysterious Letter. Not a romance, but good lord, it's a juicy, wordalicious fantasy take on Holmes and Watson that blew me away.


-t - May 14, 2020 8:06:12 am PDT #25853 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Kindle sales for $1.99 are dangerous, because I forget what I impulse buy. Which is a lot.

That is extremely true for me, too.

I'm trying really hard to read some of my electronic TBR pile. I've started a few and been kinda meh on them but didn't want to get rid of them because sometimes lately reading something I don't care anything at all about is exactly what I want to do...


-t - May 14, 2020 8:07:18 am PDT #25854 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter is a lot of fun!


Cashmere - May 14, 2020 8:07:21 am PDT #25855 of 28176
Now tagless for your comfort.

That is extremely true for me, too.

I keep getting Book Deal alerts and buy so many kindle books higgely-piggely that it's going to take years for me to plow through them.


-t - May 14, 2020 8:09:44 am PDT #25856 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It's the things an interesting review of and I go to look at them and, hey, on sale, so I get it but I'm not going to read it right now because in the middle of whatever and then when I'm scrolling through my library later I can't remember why I bought it that are my real problem.

But I think that's how I got The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, so, you know, not gonna stop.


Amy - May 14, 2020 9:01:14 am PDT #25857 of 28176
Because books.

My biggest problem is I'm very visual. So if it's out of sight, it's definitely out of mind. There are books on my Kindle I've tried to buy twice because I forgot there were there.

I've a mind to send you Alexis Hall's The Affair of the Mysterious Letter.

That sounds like the kind of mystery I like! I also need to eventually range Jonathan Strange and ... whatever whatever.


EpicTangent - May 14, 2020 9:05:54 am PDT #25858 of 28176
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

I've a mind to send you Alexis Hall's The Affair of the Mysterious Letter. Not a romance, but good lord, it's a juicy, wordalicious fantasy take on Holmes and Watson that blew me away.

Taking note! The last couple of "takes" on Holmes I've read were major letdowns.

My biggest problem is I'm very visual. So if it's out of sight, it's definitely out of mind. There are books on my Kindle I've tried to buy twice because I forgot there were there.

Very much this!


Cashmere - May 14, 2020 9:10:14 am PDT #25859 of 28176
Now tagless for your comfort.

Taking note! The last couple of "takes" on Holmes I've read were major letdowns.

If John Watson was a trans man, and Holmes was actually a wickedly self-interested, brilliant, lesbian sorceress sharing a flat in a multidimensional city and they are solving a mystery that cuts across time and space?


Jessica - May 14, 2020 9:33:25 am PDT #25860 of 28176
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If John Watson was a trans man, and Holmes was actually a wickedly self-interested, brilliant, lesbian sorceress sharing a flat in a multidimensional city and they are solving a mystery that cuts across time and space?

Oh my.


esse - May 14, 2020 10:04:40 am PDT #25861 of 28176
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

I loved Mysterious Letter so so much!