Oh wow, look at the lineup for this event honoring Octavia Butler!
Zoe: Yeah? Thought you'd get land crazy that long in port. Wash: Probably, but I've been sane a long while now, and change is good.
'Shindig'
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."
amyparker - Feb 18, 2021 1:52:32 pm PST #26467 of 27932
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.
Laura - Feb 23, 2021 5:23:30 am PST #26468 of 27932
Our wings are not tired.
I am here for it - [link]
Longtime friends Hillary Clinton and author Louise Penny are writing an international political thriller, "State of Terror," out in October. The plot:
A novice Secretary of State joins the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray, and the Secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy.
Calli - Feb 23, 2021 6:39:38 am PST #26469 of 27932
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I did not know they were friends. Cool. While I'm not much for political thrillers (politics has had enough tension for me over the past few years), I do like Louise Penny's writing.
Laura - Feb 23, 2021 6:47:08 am PST #26470 of 27932
Our wings are not tired.
I am just tickled when I see two women I respect collaborating and have to support that!
Toddson - Feb 23, 2021 7:32:20 am PST #26471 of 27932
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I would LOVE to hear their co-writing sessions.
Jesse - Feb 23, 2021 8:41:10 am PST #26472 of 27932
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, that's amazing. I have seen shout-outs to the family in Penny's book notes, and wondered how close they were.
Toddson - Feb 25, 2021 9:55:50 am PST #26473 of 27932
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I hadn't seen it mentioned on the board, but Laurence Ferlenghetti has died.
Toddson - Mar 01, 2021 12:44:45 pm PST #26474 of 27932
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
eee! new T. Kingfisher - Paladin's Strength!
Pix - Mar 01, 2021 8:25:55 pm PST #26475 of 27932
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
YOU JUST MADE MY NIGHT!
-t - Mar 01, 2021 8:34:51 pm PST #26476 of 27932
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That’s what I’m going to read next! I’m excited
Today I finished reading Ngaio Marsh’s complete oeuvre. I feel like I should do something with the knowledge and opinions I have picked up other than thinking “Nice call back to A Man Lies Dead” when a glove button is found in the paddock in Last Ditch. I can advise that if anyone else wants to do it, either slot Money in the Morgue (which was finished by someone else from Marsh’s notes and a few chapters, per the afterword) after Died in the Wool or just skip it. I read it last and I was often thinking “Rory would never!” and maybe I wouldn’t after only 13 books instead of 32. I am now intensely curious about whether any of the unfinished ms made it into the final book unchanged.
So if anyone knows of a graduate program in Murder Mysteries I could apply to with my no-academic-background-in-literature-of-any-kind, let me know.
But now, T Kingfisher awaits!