I'm on the second in that series now. Quite enjoyable.
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
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."
Laura - Apr 23, 2021 4:49:17 am PDT #26668 of 28174
Our wings are not tired.
-t - Apr 23, 2021 7:19:19 am PDT #26669 of 28174
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
V. V., Plots and Counterplots was good fun if you like lurid tales of murder and revenge. I'm definitely interested in reading more of the stuff Alcott published anonymously/pseudonymously. And it does have a bit of detecting in it, although I wouldn't call it a detective story.
I suppose Wilkie Collins is next but Victories Greater Than Death and The Galaxy and the Ground Within are out, so that'll have to wait
Toddson - Apr 29, 2021 1:51:53 pm PDT #26670 of 28174
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I saw a meme (I guess it was) the other day. Over stills from the appropriate movies, it was along the lines of:
Harry Potter fans: I want to go to Hogwarts
Narnia fans: I want to go to Narnia
Hunger Game fans: no thanks, I'm good
Toddson - May 04, 2021 7:39:40 am PDT #26671 of 28174
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Three romance novels written by Stacey Abrams (under the name Selena Montgomery) are being reissued. Story here.
Laura - May 04, 2021 7:43:02 am PDT #26672 of 28174
Our wings are not tired.
That is so cool, Todd. I had no idea. Sending the link to my romance reading sister and niece.
Toddson - May 05, 2021 6:39:54 am PDT #26673 of 28174
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I finished Courtney Milan's "When the Devil Comes Courting" ... what a journey it was. Parts of it are absolutely heartbreaking, other parts utter joy. sigh ... and how long will it be for the next one?
-t - May 07, 2021 1:30:36 pm PDT #26674 of 28174
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Fugitive Telemetry: Murderbot + murder mystery, is it my birthday? Love.
I ended up listening to most of Murderbot in the last week or so (my initial plan from ages ago to listen to all of it bit by bit while I did chores did not work out mainly because I kept finding that the chores distracted me too much from the story, so I have been listening on my breaks recently and I have to say there is something very satisfying about listening to Murderbot talk about watching media while it does whatever tasks in between doing my tasks) and I kinda wish I had known that Fugitive Telemetry takes place before Network Effect. Not that that is a problem, exactly, but next time (and I'm pretty sure there will be a next time before too long) I will try chronological order
Now, of course, I just want to curl up and watch Sanctuary Moon.
Jesse - May 10, 2021 7:47:57 am PDT #26675 of 28174
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm reading this thriller by Alyssa Cole, and it's good, but the back says "Rear Window meets Get Out" and I just feel like that is too much information! Like, I don't think the plot is exactly Get Out, but I'm pretty sure now I know what it is, which is the part that's supposed to be suspenseful, you know?
-t - May 10, 2021 9:30:52 am PDT #26676 of 28174
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, I hate when blurbs do that!
shrift - May 12, 2021 1:45:04 pm PDT #26677 of 28174
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I signed up for a "one book a week" club at work to see if external pressure would help me start reading actual books again, and it seems to be working. I made it through Fugitive Telemetry and Boyfriend Material and enjoyed them both. Then I read Bonds of Brass because the author supposedly was inspired by Finn/Poe. Perhaps I would have enjoyed the book more if I had gone into it without expectations, but I didn't get any Finn/Poe feels from it and felt misled. I probably should have read Renay's review first.