I have to always decide what I’m reading next or I lose my momentum.
Numfar! Do the dance of joy.
Elder ,'Power Play'
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 3:46:15 pm PST #26346 of 28175
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
meara - Dec 10, 2020 4:22:05 pm PST #26347 of 28175
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 28175
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 28175
"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 28175
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 28175
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 28175
"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 28175
not your mom's socks.
Yes! Didi is a friend.
Didi is lovely.
Shir - Dec 12, 2020 7:23:08 am PST #26354 of 28175
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
That is a very true statement. I'm wondering who else you met there - the ones I know are Didi at Nova, Rani at Graff, and Gili at Utz.
Calli - Dec 12, 2020 8:49:47 am PST #26355 of 28175
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I picked up the first couple of Murderbot novellas on some $1.99 deal ages ago and then promptly went off and read other things. I finally started the first on in November and proved the efficacy of daily deal prices within a couple of weeks as I snapped up and plowed through all of them within weeks. It was rather nice to get caught up in a new world—I had a lot of trouble getting into anything new over the summer and into fall.
I also have The Goblin Emperor in my TBR pile. It sounds like a good thing to unearth over the holidays.