Angel: Is that what you think you are--a hero? Spike: Saved the world didn't I? Angel: Once. Talk to me after you've done it a couple more times.

'Destiny'


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."


Cashmere - Nov 11, 2020 6:48:57 pm PST #26229 of 27933
Now tagless for your comfort.

Jess, my book talk is finally live. [link]


WindSparrow - Nov 12, 2020 7:02:24 pm PST #26230 of 27933
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

I started Reading Elizabeth Peters with The Last Camel Died at Noon. Stumbled in it at the library, and how do you walk past a title like that? So the child and the precocious love interest were part of the whole thing for me.


Cashmere - Nov 13, 2020 8:02:13 pm PST #26231 of 27933
Now tagless for your comfort.

Another book talk dropped. This one is The Montague Siblings series by Mackenzie Lee. [link]


sj - Nov 17, 2020 2:56:08 pm PST #26232 of 27933
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I started the audiobook for Ninth House this week while I can’t do much else. The female narrator who does Bardugo’s books is excellent. I found the male narrator slightly less interesting, but so far the book is sucking me right in.


Katerina Bee - Nov 18, 2020 8:39:34 am PST #26233 of 27933
Herding cats for fun

November 18: Margaret Atwood’s Birthday! I hope she will write some more books.


sj - Nov 18, 2020 8:51:07 am PST #26234 of 27933
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

She has a new poetry book out.


megan walker - Nov 26, 2020 10:19:37 am PST #26235 of 27933
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Happy Thanksgiving Literistas!

Unfortunately I am not chez Pix and ND this year, but I'm happy to say my other Thanksgiving tradition lives on. That's right, it's time for my annual First Lines book challenge!

I have every faith that you can guess at least one of these.


sj - Nov 27, 2020 6:26:49 am PST #26236 of 27933
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I couldn't sleep last night, so I ended up reading a large chunk of Mexican Gothic, and omg it is so good! Great gothic elements, and the witty conversations are very Austenesque. I can't wait to read more of it tonight.


Jesse - Nov 28, 2020 3:52:57 pm PST #26237 of 27933
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

For years, my family has mostly been exchanging books at Christmas, in some variations. Well, earlier this fall, I ordered a bunch of random books from my local independents, and then today we decided to draw names! So only a few of these books are now appropriate gifts (one for the person whose name I drew, a couple for my mother). Oh well, the rest for me, I guess!


megan walker - Nov 28, 2020 4:22:42 pm PST #26238 of 27933
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Hints have been written for the as-yet-unguessed items in my annual First Lines book challenge. And I'll say here that one of the authors is definitely a Buffista fave, though not for what I read this year.