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)
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
Sheryl - Dec 11, 2020 6:02:14 pm PST #26351 of 28547
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Shir - Dec 12, 2020 2:38:13 am PST #26352 of 28547
"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 28547
not your mom's socks.
Yes! Didi is a friend.
Didi is lovely.
Shir - Dec 12, 2020 7:23:08 am PST #26354 of 28547
"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 28547
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.
Tom Scola - Dec 13, 2020 2:41:26 pm PST #26356 of 28547
hwæt
RIP John le Carré.
bennett - Dec 13, 2020 4:48:48 pm PST #26357 of 28547
RIP John le Carré.I hate this year.
hippocampus - Dec 14, 2020 3:20:20 am PST #26358 of 28547
not your mom's socks.
Shir - yes, I know Rani also! (ETA darnit autocarrot)
Shir - Dec 14, 2020 12:35:29 pm PST #26359 of 28547
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
He is great too (though I don't know him as much as I know Didi).
-t - Dec 16, 2020 8:21:35 am PST #26360 of 28547
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Read a couple of good novellas or short novels (not sure about the nomenclature) recently: Princess Floralinda and the Forty-flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir and Seven of Infinities by Aliette de Bodard. Both very good. I kinda want to talk about Floralinda but I also don't know what I can say about it except if you like Tamsyn Muir you probably want to read it. And Seven of Infinities made me want to reread all the Xuyu stories. I do like that universe a lot.