:: 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.
You're talking to Serenity. And, Early... Serenity is very unhappy.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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."
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".
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.
Tom Scola - Dec 13, 2020 2:41:26 pm PST #26356 of 28175
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
RIP John le Carré.
bennett - Dec 13, 2020 4:48:48 pm PST #26357 of 28175
RIP John le Carré.I hate this year.
hippocampus - Dec 14, 2020 3:20:20 am PST #26358 of 28175
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 28175
"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 28175
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.
aurelia - Dec 16, 2020 10:03:05 pm PST #26361 of 28175
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Bad Sex in Fiction Award Cancelled as We’ve Had “Too Many Bad Things in 2020” [link]