Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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 05, 2021 8:48:43 am PST #26486 of 27932
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 27932
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 27932
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 27932
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 27932
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 27932
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


Volans - Mar 05, 2021 3:35:41 pm PST #26492 of 27932
move out and draw fire

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.

Same

My DH turned me on to T. Kingfisher, but I'm so not surprised that Buffistas like her.


Consuela - Mar 05, 2021 4:10:35 pm PST #26493 of 27932
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

The Temple of the White Rat could do a lot of good in this world, I admit.


Calli - Mar 06, 2021 3:43:58 pm PST #26494 of 27932
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

The Temple of the White Rat could do a lot of good in this world, I admit.

I have a book crush on Zale.


-t - Mar 07, 2021 10:10:03 am PST #26495 of 27932
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

They're pretty great.

I decided to reread Swordheart, very enjoyable. I think I was wrong in thinking there was a biggish time gap in these stories, probably I was confused by the long time since the sorceror-smith created the swords. Maybe it was a matter of me feeling like I had to wait too long for the next one although objectively it can't have been that long a time.