Has anyone tried the historical mysteries by Andrea Penrose? The first one is Murder on Black Swan Lane. I'm going to dive in while I wait for my hold on the third Sherry Thomas.
Sometimes when I'm sitting in class... You know, I'm not thinking about class, 'cause that would never happen. I think about kissing you. And it's like everything stops. It's like, it's like freeze frame. Willow kissage.
Oz ,'First Date'
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."
Amy - Jul 06, 2020 12:02:38 pm PDT #25993 of 28176
Because books.
-t - Jul 06, 2020 12:11:08 pm PDT #25994 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have not but I just read a summary and that sounds great!
Amy - Jul 06, 2020 12:46:31 pm PDT #25995 of 28176
Because books.
Historical mysteries remain my best comfort food.
meara - Jul 06, 2020 1:10:12 pm PDT #25996 of 28176
Amy I have read them! And now in looking them up see there's a new one coming out. I enjoyed them, though I tend to like that subgenre of fancy historic ladies solving crimes (see also: Lady Darby, Lady Emily, Lady Julia...)
sj - Jul 06, 2020 1:33:56 pm PDT #25997 of 28176
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
It looks like it's only 99 cents for kindle today. So I grabbed it. I was reading a lot when quarantine happened, but I haven't been able to get into anything the last few weeks.
Consuela - Jul 06, 2020 2:07:45 pm PDT #25998 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I have to admit that I stopped reading the Jodi Taylor books after a while because the interpersonal drama warped into abuse in a few ways, and I realized the writer was more interested in that than in the actual plot shenanigans. At any rate, I put them down after 3 or 4 and have not had any interest in going back...
-t - Jul 06, 2020 4:01:39 pm PDT #25999 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Well, shoot, I'm not getting the 99 cent deal. Boo.
Toddson - Jul 07, 2020 6:41:33 am PDT #26000 of 28176
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I got the Black Swan Lane book (when it was on sale), but haven't started it yet. I enjoyed the Lady Julia books up to a point, the Lady Darby ones less so. I HAVE started "Deathless Divide" - set in an AU America, antebellum with slavery but also zombies. The protagonist is a young woman sent off from her home plantation to a school to teach her to fight zombies so she can be sold as a protector for a white woman. I've barely started it, so I don't know quite where it's going ... but ZOMBIES.
Consuela - Jul 07, 2020 8:13:07 am PDT #26001 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, Toddson, is that the sequel to Dread Nation by Justina Ireland? That was really creative and horrifying.
Toddson - Jul 07, 2020 9:56:52 am PDT #26002 of 28176
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I think it is.