I started My Dark Vanessa this afternoon.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
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."
sj - Dec 10, 2020 3:06:50 pm PST #26344 of 28706
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Amy - Dec 10, 2020 3:43:47 pm PST #26345 of 28706
Because books.
Oooh! I want to read that too.
sj - Dec 10, 2020 3:46:15 pm PST #26346 of 28706
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I have to always decide what I’m reading next or I lose my momentum.
meara - Dec 10, 2020 4:22:05 pm PST #26347 of 28706
Yeah, I gave up on kindle unlimited after trying it a couple times, because while I know there's good stuff out there (and semi-frequently am looking at a book and see it's available there), when I would try to find things to read, it was mostly trash. And not the good kind of trash that I enjoy reading, just....bad.
Though now we're getting all those end of year best books lists, so I have been opening a billion tabs on all my devices to remind myself to either buy them or get them at the library.
Amy - Dec 10, 2020 4:33:27 pm PST #26348 of 28706
Because books.
Same, sj. It's easy when I have library books, but when I don't there are Too Many Choices.
Shir - Dec 11, 2020 5:41:50 am PST #26349 of 28706
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
FYI: Next week Meorot SFF conference will take place virtually via live streaming, and there are three live events with authors (in English) that might interest some of you (full disclosure - I am usually part of the organizing committee when the con is happening in the outside world, but this year I haven't done much because my role is to be in touch with the compound supervisors when the conference is taking place in a physical place).
There will a conversation between Seanan McGuire and Keren Landsman on plagues (Thursday, 17/12, 6:00pm Israel time), and a conversation and a Q&A with Karin Lowachee (Thursday, 17/12, 7:00pm and 9:00pm Israel time, respectively).
The website is mostly in Hebrew, but I can help interested parties to buy tickets and access the live stream. A ticket to access everything is minimum 1.55$ (it's a pay-as-you-like system), including access to the conversations in the next 6 months. Let me know if you'd like to watch these events and I'll help.
hippocampus - Dec 11, 2020 2:55:40 pm PST #26350 of 28706
not your mom's socks.
:: waves at shir :: do you know folks from Nova Press? I met a few people in the past few years we might have in common?
Sheryl - Dec 11, 2020 6:02:14 pm PST #26351 of 28706
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Gary just got me the first two Murderbot novellas for Hanukkah. (I had mentioned to him that I put the first one on hold at the library as an ebook)
Shir - Dec 12, 2020 2:38:13 am PST #26352 of 28706
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
:: waves at shir :: do you know folks from Nova Press? I met a few people in the past few years we might have in common?
Yes! Didi is a friend.
hippocampus - Dec 12, 2020 5:33:04 am PST #26353 of 28706
not your mom's socks.
Yes! Didi is a friend.
Didi is lovely.