'Harm's Way'
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."
You can find the answers here.
Oh, I have read one of those! #7, but it was 20+ years ago. That line did not stick with me.
I was looking at some of the previous lists and I hadn't read it then, but if The Library Book had been on the list this year I totally would've gotten it.
I literally just heard about Murderbot this week. Is now on my Kindle.
We used to have a game that was sort of Balderdash plus first lines. You'd get a title and author, and everyone wrote the first and last lines, except for the person who drew the card; they wrote the real ones. Points for anyone who knew and wrote the real ones...points for getting people to guess yours was real. If I didn't know the first and last lines, I would try to write something that would be as hilarious and offensive as possible...so I guess Balderdash plus first lines plus Cards Against Humanity.
I was looking at some of the previous lists and I hadn't read it then, but if The Library Book had been on the list this year I totally would've gotten it.
I love The Library Book. And the chapters are so short I remember it being great for bedtime reading. As opposed to The Hot Zone, which the Math Greek sent me just before the start of shelter-in-place when I was too scared to read it. I finally did in the summer. In fact, those two, and the other non-fiction book on the list, The Feather Thief, were all gifts from the MG. I'm not a huge fan of non-fiction but they were all great reads that I would recommend.
I finished Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo last night. I absolutely loved it!
I remember really disliking the writing style in The Hot Zone.
I thought The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett was much more clearly presented and engaging to read.
And it appears that it is currently free in Kindle format: [link]
Volans, so like Low Definition for book quotes.
like Low Definition for book quotes
Yes! And now I need Low Def.
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
I did too! It was exactly my jam.
Volans, me too and now I’m out of new Bardugo to read except for the Grishaverse companion book about the lives of the saints. I can’t wait for the sequel to King of Scars to come out next year.
It took me a minute to get into Ninth House, but once I did, I tore through it.
I think the only ones I won't reread are the original trilogy. But Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom and King of Scars? Yes, please.
The original trilogy is my least favorite, but I still really enjoyed them, and I’m looking forward to the Netflix series.