Y'all. The Once and Future Witches. So very good.
The next time you decide to stab me in the back... have the guts to do it to my face.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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 - Oct 20, 2020 6:19:39 pm PDT #26180 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
DebetEsse - Oct 31, 2020 12:39:23 pm PDT #26181 of 28175
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Just finished Harrow. I think I liked it better, even, than Gideon, and I think it should be nominated for a Hugo. The narrative structure was really interesting and engaging (if a bit of *work* to follow) for me, although I could see others finding it off-putting.
But, I mean, come on, in has an in-universe barista AU . I liked that I thought I was figuring things out, but it turns out that, no! There's a whole other layer of THINGS.
-t - Oct 31, 2020 12:59:42 pm PDT #26182 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Right? Glorious. I should get to my audiobook reread soon...
I randomly found myself thinking, apropos of nothing but regarding Harrow, "and it would surprise you to learn that planet-killing necromancers are perhaps not the good guys?" I'm gonna say it takes some sharp world building to put me in that position.
DebetEsse - Oct 31, 2020 4:29:17 pm PDT #26183 of 28175
Woe to the fucking wicked.
To be fair, I'm not sure there is a GOOD guy to be found.
Although I'm quite glad we got to spend more time with Abigail and Magnus, and actually got to meet Dulcinea.
-t - Oct 31, 2020 4:52:01 pm PDT #26184 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
All true
Jessica - Nov 01, 2020 8:08:32 am PST #26185 of 28175
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The audiobooks of this series are SO GOOD. I was especially impressed with the narration in Harrow because the first-person narrator during the second-person narration bits was able to be exactly the right voice without being objectively spoilery. I suspected, but I didn't *know* until I was supposed to.
Utterly brilliant.
-t - Nov 01, 2020 8:53:26 am PST #26186 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh. I haven’t listened before, I am really looking forward to the experience (once I finish listening to MurderBot, which I am also enjoying very much)
sj - Nov 01, 2020 4:10:25 pm PST #26187 of 28175
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Author Rachel Caine has passed away from cancer. [link]
Amy - Nov 02, 2020 7:11:01 am PST #26188 of 28175
Because books.
Oh man, that's awful, although not unexpected. She fought really hard.
sj - Nov 02, 2020 7:30:06 am PST #26189 of 28175
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
She really did. She was trying to get into an experimental study until recently.