Oh yes, Mixed Up Files was definitely a favorite!!!
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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."
meara - Dec 05, 2020 7:31:35 pm PST #26304 of 28175
Sophia Brooks - Dec 06, 2020 7:15:04 am PST #26305 of 28175
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I somehow did not get to mixed up files until I was an adult. I think maybe I didn’t care for the cover? I also started reading from the adult section at a fairly young age, although it was a lot of mysteries and non-fiction (I was obsessed with a book that examined whether Napoleon died of arsenic poisoning and also Lucy about the discovery of Australopithecus). mostly until I was older. I also once had an idea that I would start with “A” authors and just read all the books. I am pretty sure I fizzled out a Louis Auchincloss, which is why I didn’t read Austen until I was an adult.
Volans - Dec 06, 2020 9:41:53 am PST #26306 of 28175
move out and draw fire
Any story about kids managing to fend for themselves
Yes this!
I second Dana's rec for Robin McKinley. Very calm soothing.
My comfort reading is The Name of the Rose (it just is, I don't know why), any Lloyd Alexander, any Rosemary Sutcliffe.
-t - Dec 06, 2020 10:41:30 am PST #26307 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Taking note of the Robin McKinley recs! I have somehow never read her
-t - Dec 06, 2020 12:06:30 pm PST #26308 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I recently slipped sideways from my historical murder mysteries to historical romances by the same author and they are pretty good but the conflict is always about how society is keeping these lovers apart and also generally sucks in various systemic ways and that is not soothing at all, even with a specific resolution for this particular couple
Dana - Dec 06, 2020 1:15:00 pm PST #26309 of 28175
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Taking note of the Robin McKinley recs! I have somehow never read her
Ooh! Spindle's End and The Blue Sword are my favorites.
-t - Dec 06, 2020 1:58:03 pm PST #26310 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks!
-t - Dec 06, 2020 5:34:34 pm PST #26311 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just discovered (or put together, I fl like I might have been told this before but didn’t retain it) that the Selena Montgomery romances that have shown up in my recommendations are Stacey Abram’s pen name, so my interest is piqued!
Consuela - Dec 06, 2020 7:40:16 pm PST #26312 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Early Robin McKinley is great! But Deerskin is very traumatizing. I find her later work self-involved and unrewarding, but maybe that's just me. Still, strong recommendations for Beauty, The Blue Sword (despite more than a hint of Orientalism/colonialism), Hero and the Crown, and Outlaws of Sherwood.
Dana - Dec 06, 2020 8:11:29 pm PST #26313 of 28175
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, I forgot Outlaws of Sherwood.
Deerskin is good but yeah, there are some serious content warnings. I haven't read anything later than....Sunshine, I think. I like Chalice too.