Book: I am a Shepherd. Folks like a man of God. Mal: No, they don't. Men of God make everyone feel guilty and judged.

'Safe'


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 27912
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 27912
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 27912
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 27912
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 27912
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 27912
"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 27912
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

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 27912
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 27912

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 27912

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