Sometimes a thing gets broke, can't be fixed.

Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'


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."


-t - Mar 04, 2021 2:37:51 pm PST #26482 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The gnoles are the best. A gnole is the best? You know what I mean.

I only realized a chapter or two in that what I thought I remembered being in the Saint of Steel series was actually Swordheart, but I figure actually remembering anything from the first book was not necessary for this one. I do want to go back and read Paladin's Grace, now, though - I remember liking it although very little else. And reread Swordheart. And maybe the whole Clocktaurs series. It's a shared universe, right? But separated in time, although I forget what is earlier and what is later. Or maybe I am wrong about that entirely. Is Defensive Baking in that universe or is it separate?

Anyway, this was a good one. Many fine qualities. T. Kingfisher is an autobuy for me as well.


Toddson - Mar 04, 2021 2:46:58 pm PST #26483 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

They are in the same universe; I have little idea what the timeline is ... I just sort of go along for the ride. Paladin's Strength has some bit that I found amusing ... YMMV.


-t - Mar 04, 2021 3:03:08 pm PST #26484 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I feel like I figured some of the timeline out at some point but I don't remember how or why.


Consuela - Mar 05, 2021 8:45:24 am PST #26485 of 27912
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

The description of the city on the shore with the Sealords and no government seemed to be some not-very-disguised political commentary. Well done for all that.

I am almost finished but started nodding off last night just at the point where they were going into the coliseum to rescue the nuns.


-t - Mar 05, 2021 8:48:43 am PST #26486 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Agreed on the political commentary. Specific and yet will not, I suspect, seem dated if we can ever get past that particular political unreasonableness irl

I really like the Temple of the White Rat. All the religions are interesting but that one I kinda wish we had in our world.


Toddson - Mar 05, 2021 9:03:25 am PST #26487 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I do like the White Rat - they're very practical people and don't seem to be wound up in dogma (would it be rat-ma for them?).


Toddson - Mar 05, 2021 1:49:14 pm PST #26488 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Katherine Addison has a new ... novella, I think ... set in a new world. Something about having angels, both heavenly and fallen, plus some other supernatural creatures existing in a 19th Century world. It opens being narrated by Dr. J.H. Watson, injured in the Afghan war and sent home to England .... (I believe Jack the Ripper is in there as well)


-t - Mar 05, 2021 2:12:05 pm PST #26489 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The Angel of the Crows?


Toddson - Mar 05, 2021 2:15:13 pm PST #26490 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Yes. I got it after reading some of the preview.


-t - Mar 05, 2021 2:16:49 pm PST #26491 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I really liked it