Xander ,'Selfless'
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."
Yeah, the “who does that?!” factor will take me out of a lot of stories and it makes sense that would be more glaring in contemporary stuff.
Jasmine Guillory’s people are so plausible, I love her books. The Wedding Date? I think that was first. So delicious.
I haven’t dated since the 1990s, so my reaction to unexpected things in contemporary romances is more like, “Huh. I wonder is that’s a thing that happens.” I’m going through a queer historical phase right now (KJ Charles et al), so that’s fun.
I really enjoy K.J. Charles' books. She's an auto-buy for me.
OMG I have been stalking KJC's Twitter for updates on how Subtle Blood is going to the point where Twitter now gives me notifications when she's posted or retweeted something.
Library hold bonanza: I'm still reading The Once and Future Witches, and I have Things in Jars and The Jane Austen Society here to read next, and my holds of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Murder on Cold Street (the latest Lady Sherlock) are ready to pick up! I can't read this fast anymore. Things in Jars and The Jane Austen Society may have to go back until another time.
Signed, God, I love the library.
Hooray library!
I’ll want to know what you think of Addie LaRue. I can’t quite decide whether I want to read it, for some reason.
I loved Addie LaRue, for what it's worth.
Thanks, Pix, your recs have always been reliable indicators for me
t, I read Addie La Rue and while it wasn’t my super best omg book, i enjoyed it (maybe not the very end??) and finished it. Which these days says something.
I just picked up Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, and I'm really enjoying it.
It's Dark Academia (literally a "what-if those secret societies at Yale were actually doing dark magic") and it's well-written, and it scratches the itch I enjoyed of the scenes at Brakebills in The Magicians.