Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!

Xander ,'Chosen'


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 - 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.


Dana - May 12, 2021 1:54:08 pm PDT #26678 of 28174
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

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.

BOOOOO. That's disappointing.

I have Boyfriend Material on my Kindle. I'll get to it...at some point.


Toddson - May 12, 2021 2:18:44 pm PDT #26679 of 28174
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I have a bunch of books on my reader waiting for me to get to them. Since I no longer spend significant time on my commute (yay new neighborhood), I don't get to them as quickly as I once did. I buy a number from the Smart Bitches daily sale listing, and sometimes they're disappointing, but a lot of them I enjoy enough to finish and some ... sigh ... get me hooked on another writer.


meara - May 12, 2021 7:32:47 pm PDT #26680 of 28174

I’ve had a hard time finishing books. But I also have book club Sunday and have only read like 10% of it so far.


meara - May 12, 2021 7:36:21 pm PDT #26681 of 28174

And also one of the books I DNF’d was Bomds of Brass.