I read Claudia Gray's new Star Wars book this week, it's part of the new High Republic series. Pretty enjoyable, and she leaned pretty hard on the Jedi Code being kind of fucked up and unreasonable for helping Jedi be emotionally-healthy individuals. I am however unclear as to when it's set, other than "a long time before the Skywalker Saga".
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'First Date'
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."
Consuela - Feb 12, 2021 12:24:13 pm PST #26444 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
meara - Feb 12, 2021 1:12:19 pm PST #26445 of 28175
I dunno about Hellblazer but I’m pro lesbians and urban fantasy, so I just bought the first one!
amyparker - Feb 12, 2021 2:10:38 pm PST #26446 of 28175
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Okay, have finished Winter's Orbit (flare-up of tendonitis in my feet, I am icing every two hours, there is time to read). Politics that were nowhere to be seen in the AO3 version (and a whole lot more of them), considerably less evil monologing on the part of one character, more realistic fallout from the badness that happens to one of our heroes, and the other is still a sweet-natured hot mess, but can believably step up when he's handed something that matters. It's different enough that I'd at least grab it from the library.
meara - Feb 12, 2021 6:27:50 pm PST #26447 of 28175
Thanks, Amy! I'll definitely look into it
chrismg - Feb 13, 2021 9:43:01 am PST #26448 of 28175
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Suela, I seem to remember seeing it was about 400 years before Phantom Menace but I wouldn't swear to it.
hippocampus - Feb 15, 2021 12:24:44 pm PST #26449 of 28175
not your mom's socks.
Re: Ninth House -- I loved it so much. Highly recommend Aliette de Bodard's Fireheart Tiger novella I'm finally reading Alyssa Cole's An Extraordinary Union, just finished E. Lily Yu's On Fragile Waves and T. Kingfisher's A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking and other than a suggestion to maybe not read all of those simultaneously, they're all really good in very different ways.
(from way back, waves hi/not drowing [sorta] before disappearing below the surface again)
DavidS - Feb 15, 2021 1:00:41 pm PST #26450 of 28175
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
[waves to the Water Horse that resides at a college]
amych - Feb 15, 2021 1:14:25 pm PST #26451 of 28175
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
When "Ninth House" first scrolled by my house, I thought you meant the series with Gideon the Ninth/Harrow the Ninth, and I only just got that y'all meant a whole different Ninth House. One where there's a Yale and not lesbian space necromancers (as far as I can tell from the description?)
So now I'm grabbing the Bardugo book, because I'm going to DIE OF DEATH before the third of the OTHER Ninth books comes out next year.
-t - Feb 15, 2021 1:42:07 pm PST #26452 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have Fireheart Tiger up next in my TBR, nice to see it recommended
Would kind of like a Gideon the Ninth House crossover now
Cashmere - Feb 16, 2021 8:12:30 pm PST #26453 of 28175
Now tagless for your comfort.
Winter's Orbit
I just ordered this. And Addie Larue.