YA novelist, Jacqueline Woodson, also won a MacArthur.
Wash: Captain, didn't you know kissin' girls makes you sleepy? Mal: Well sometimes I just can't help myself.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
DavidS - Oct 06, 2020 10:45:59 am PDT #26149 of 28175
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
amyparker - Oct 06, 2020 2:17:50 pm PDT #26150 of 28175
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.
My new Le Guin book arrived today, the LoA edition of Annals of the Western Shore, and it is very much an example of "Right action is rewarded - not immediately, not necessarily to the actor's personal benefit, not without changing the actor, but the world is affected for the better by it". Which is certainly something I need to be reminded of in the present moment.
(Plus the cover photo is from the documentary about her, walking along the shore at Cannon Beach, which is one of my favorite places in the world. The voiceover for that segment is her reciting a bit from Always Coming Home that made me ugly cry - it wasn't that long after she'd died.)
Consuela - Oct 06, 2020 7:42:40 pm PDT #26151 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
YA novelist, Jacqueline Woodson, also won a MacArthur.
And Tressie McMillan Cottom, who you have certainly seen around the internets. It's a great selection of people.
Consuela - Oct 06, 2020 7:43:25 pm PDT #26152 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My new Le Guin book arrived today, the LoA edition of Annals of the Western Shore,
I really love Annals of the Western Shore, might be worth rereading them soon. Recently I've been rereading a bunch of Rosemary Sutcliff.
Toddson - Oct 07, 2020 6:06:24 am PDT #26153 of 28175
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Comfort reading? I can go along with that. I'm having problems reading anything new.
Calli - Oct 07, 2020 6:32:21 am PDT #26154 of 28175
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm having problems reading anything new.
Me, too. Two new books by auto-buy authors dropped yesterday, and I'm working my way through rereading an 8-book series instead.
bennett - Oct 07, 2020 6:34:33 am PDT #26155 of 28175
My coping strategy has been mysteries, preferably not too gruesome. Currently I'm reading Kerry Greenwood's Corinna Chapman series, but I'm also slowing working my way through Ann Cleeves' Vera books, Laurie King's Kate Martinelli books, Martin Walker's Bruno books, etc. I'm focusing on long series that are available from my public library via Overdrive which unfortunately sometimes means a long wait between the first volume in a series and the second.
I've also been looking for mysteries set in different locations or historical times, but my library frequently fails me.
I'm also keeping a list of SF/F books to try when I'm in the mood, but not at the moment - dystopias depress me but at the same time, I can't believe much in a shiny, happy future.
sj - Oct 07, 2020 6:44:15 am PDT #26156 of 28175
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I've been reading far more since the pandemic, I started with mysteries and fantasy stories with a mystery component, and I go back to them whenever I have trouble concentrating on anything else. However, my current problem is that about 5 new books were just released and I want to read them all right now!
-t - Oct 07, 2020 7:13:22 am PDT #26157 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I decided to re-read the Toby Daye series and that was, I have to say, pretty rewarding. Just finished and am trying to decide if I am ready to start any of the new books that showed up on my kindle this week - big publishing day, I guess!
Toddson - Oct 07, 2020 8:19:38 am PDT #26158 of 28175
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I went through a bunch of old Dick Francis books. Rereads and comforting.