Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.

River ,'Objects In Space'


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."


-t - Jul 06, 2020 4:01:39 pm PDT #25999 of 28344
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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I think it is.


Cashmere - Jul 07, 2020 11:11:01 am PDT #26003 of 28344
Now tagless for your comfort.

It is.


Toddson - Jul 08, 2020 4:37:39 am PDT #26004 of 28344
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 28344
"...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 28344
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


Laura - Jul 08, 2020 7:18:09 am PDT #26007 of 28344
Our wings are not tired.

Fun is good!


EpicTangent - Jul 08, 2020 9:34:31 am PDT #26008 of 28344
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

I was thinking I had read this but when I went to Goodreads to look it up, it wasn't at all familiar. Then I realized I'm thinking of The Eyre Affair, which is not the same thing at all. So weird that I managed to fall victim to a homonym, even though the words are written!