Buffistas

A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.

Wash ,'The Message'

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."

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amyparker - May 15, 2020 6:16:12 am PDT #25866 of 28176

You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

Wow, Jessica!

Climbed out of the fanfic wallow to share that we're getting a new Murderbot novella in April.

goes back to fic, knowing better than to poke the author but devoutly wishing they had kept up the series, as there can never be enough Goblin Emperor stories in the world and their take on Csethiro's sisters is glee inducing*

meara - May 15, 2020 6:25:10 am PDT #25867 of 28176

I do love a lot of Goblin Emperor fic, Amy yes!!!

amyparker - May 15, 2020 7:14:02 am PDT #25868 of 28176

You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

I like nearly everything bigsunglasses has written, and bomberqueen17's Continuing Education series includes the tag "the fantasy of a world where everybody has good intentions".

juliana - May 15, 2020 8:16:37 am PDT #25869 of 28176

I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Book fanfic is hit or miss for me for books I've already read, but almost everything I've read for The Goblin Emperor is amazing. Actually, Murderbot fanfic is how I ended up knowing I would like the Murderbot series.

Consuela - May 15, 2020 8:24:42 am PDT #25870 of 28176

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

For TGE, I'm really enjoying The ArchDuke and the Glorious Dragon, in which Maia was stolen away by his aunt Shalean (the pirate) after his mother died. It's quite charming, although the writer is dropping very small chapters once a week, which is not meeting my needs.

meara - May 15, 2020 9:27:53 am PDT #25871 of 28176

Ooh I think I've read continuing education, but not the other one! Yay

Calli - May 15, 2020 11:34:07 am PDT #25872 of 28176

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

There's a twitter thread on the love letters between Elizabeth Barret Browning and Robert Browning here, and I'm finding it delightful: [link]

Laura - May 16, 2020 7:54:26 am PDT #25873 of 28176

Our wings are not tired.

To those of you who recommended The 10,000 doors of January a bit ago, I love you dearly. This was exactly the door I needed to go through. About half way through and although I am torn between doing nothing else but reading, and not wanting to finish it.

Consuela - May 16, 2020 1:08:57 pm PDT #25874 of 28176

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Yeah, I really enjoyed that.

Shir - May 18, 2020 10:26:17 pm PDT #25875 of 28176

"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

The 10,000 doors of January

Ha, turns out it was just translated into Hebrew so there's a sale to celebrate it. I'll get a copy.

(My non-academic reading in the past weeks is Etty Hillesum diary, various journals' longreads, and my sorta-book club is reading "Life: A User's Manual" which is so wonderful and interesting and I wouldn't get 65% of what is happening there without the group's thoughts and analyses).

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