Oh, look at the pretties!

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


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."


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.


Cashmere - Jul 07, 2020 11:11:01 am PDT #26003 of 28176
Now tagless for your comfort.

It is.


Toddson - Jul 08, 2020 4:37:39 am PDT #26004 of 28176
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

This may or may not be the place for it, but there seems to be a kickstarter for The Children's Illustrated Clausewitz. Although I think many children are born knowing the essentials.


chrismg - Jul 08, 2020 5:46:22 am PDT #26005 of 28176
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

Toddson, that looks really cool!


-t - Jul 08, 2020 6:43:44 am PDT #26006 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

So, I didn't really mean to read The Heir Affair in 24 hours but here we are. It's fun! Partly for the nostalgia, if that's the right word, for a world in which Royal Family sex scandals would be big news. I went into it thinking it'd be a rom-com but it's more of a soap opera