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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."

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Consuela - Dec 07, 2020 9:35:06 pm PST #26324 of 28175

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

If anyone has an Audible membership, one of the Audible Originals (stuff that Audible produced that often comes free with membership) currently available is a 45-hour collection of Austen novels, narrated by Claire Foy, Florence Pugh, Billie Piper, and Emma Thompson.

... this might get me through the winter.

aurelia - Dec 07, 2020 10:49:29 pm PST #26325 of 28175

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Cash, got any more recs for my Grandmother? This is what I gave you before: 93yr old, reads any biography she can get her hands on. I can't hope to choose a bio that she hasn't read so I tend to go for historical fiction or things like Radium Girls or Devil in the White City. She doesn't like non-linear or complicated time-lines.

You suggested Book of Ages by Jill Lepore so I sent that and Hidden in Plain View : A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad and she was very pleased.

Toddson - Dec 08, 2020 5:55:29 am PST #26326 of 28175

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I'm glad to hear about The Goblin Emperor sequel, but I'm disappointed it's not focusing on Maia.

And I know it's just me, but I really can't deal with audiobooks - they just ... irritate ... me beyond endurance.

Sophia Brooks - Dec 08, 2020 6:38:32 am PST #26327 of 28175

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I am weird with audiobooks. I can’t read right now because TOO MUCH READING because of work from home. I can listen to podfic and podcasts, but not actual audio books? I am weird. And I hardly want to watch anything, I just want to keep my eyes closes when I am not working.

Volans - Dec 08, 2020 8:56:03 am PST #26328 of 28175

move out and draw fire

I really can't deal with audiobooks

It's not just you. I hate them with a passion. Not sure why, as I'm all about podcasts.

hippocamp, nope...or I didn't register it because I was digging on Mach1na

-t - Dec 08, 2020 9:03:21 am PST #26329 of 28175

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Ooh, good one, Consuela. Im mildly irritated they didn't make that available when I went on an Auten kick a month or two back, but that sounds like something I should keep handy. Like Sophia, I often cannot deal with taking in anything through my eyes in my leisure time, but I can and do listen to audiobooks. And something I have read before and theoretically won't mind falling asleep during is a bonus

hippocampus - Dec 08, 2020 9:08:40 am PST #26330 of 28175

not your mom's socks.

hippocamp, nope...or I didn't register it because I was digging on Mach1na

well, it is quite diggable, IIDSSM.

I love the Goblin Emperor's world - and I'm hopeful for more of that kindness, no matter what. It's so very Sarah. Also more clocks. and bridges.

Cashmere - Dec 08, 2020 9:36:54 am PST #26331 of 28175

Now tagless for your comfort.

You suggested Book of Ages by Jill Lepore so I sent that and Hidden in Plain View : A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad and she was very pleased.

aurelia, I'd suggest Never Caught: The Story of Ona Judge (especially since she liked Hidden in Plain View). Also, I enjoyed Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend by Karen Blumenthal.

aurelia - Dec 09, 2020 9:11:00 pm PST #26332 of 28175

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Thank you, Cashmere!

Amy - Dec 10, 2020 9:09:41 am PST #26333 of 28175

Because books.

As usual, I'm reading books way past their debuts, and I just started The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff. Anyone else read it?

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