Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.

'Underneath'


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."


hippocampus - Apr 20, 2021 7:28:06 am PDT #26653 of 27912
not your mom's socks.

Now this sounds more up my alley than baseball...
I do these things for you all .... (also it was a lot of fun to write)

Another heads up is a Goblin Market meets high fashion during New York's social season story coming out next month in Uncanny...

t - Rick was delighted


hippocampus - Apr 20, 2021 7:40:32 am PDT #26654 of 27912
not your mom's socks.

IN other News, not about me: help my reading is going too slowly. I think I broke myself by reading The Obsession, which was recommended bc I'm looking for a romance/thriller for the syllabus and that is NOT what we will be using. Who's got recs.


Toddson - Apr 20, 2021 8:04:09 am PDT #26655 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

For Murderbot fans, there's a short piece called Home online. I'm not reading the series, but I understand it falls between Exit Strategy and Network Effect.


amyparker - Apr 20, 2021 8:34:39 am PDT #26656 of 27912
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.

I like the aesthetic of both cottagecore and dark academia. But I’d like them to come with WiFi.

Not a router, but may I suggest this really spendy speaker?

Murderbot! {runs off to read}


-t - Apr 20, 2021 12:22:13 pm PDT #26657 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Sweet, sweet Murderbot. I was supposed to be finishing up my reread to be ready for the next book about now. Oops.


meara - Apr 20, 2021 12:54:51 pm PDT #26658 of 27912

You’re looking for a romance/thriller? Any more details about requirements? More romance or more thriller? How romance-y? Like would Victoria Dahl’s Jane Doe be romancey enough? Or needs more actual love?


dcp - Apr 20, 2021 1:11:37 pm PDT #26659 of 27912
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

I'm looking for a romance/thriller

Have you read any from the Lee/Miller Liaden universe? I got hooked long ago by Agent of Change and have stuck with them since, although sometimes they veer further into romance than I've liked.


meara - Apr 20, 2021 2:38:22 pm PDT #26660 of 27912

Hah, I love those but wouldn’t have called any of them thrillers!


meara - Apr 20, 2021 2:39:36 pm PDT #26661 of 27912

Also I feel like smart bitches probably has a tag for romance thrillers! Like that one where they’re in Antarctica and they have to trek across the ice while being hunted by bad guys...


Toddson - Apr 22, 2021 6:47:24 am PDT #26662 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

The newest Courtney Milan dropped Tuesday - "The Devil Comes Courting" - delayed from February.