We're proud to say that the Class of '99 has the lowest mortality rate of any graduating class in Sunnydale history.

Jonathan ,'Touched'


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."


Pix - Jun 21, 2021 6:00:36 am PDT #26754 of 27912
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

I loved that book, Laura. So well written and interesting. What genre are you looking at for your next rec?


Laura - Jun 21, 2021 6:28:06 am PDT #26755 of 27912
Our wings are not tired.

Yes, I will absolutely read more from Brit Bennett in the future.

I looked at my TBR list and decided to take a hard left to Sci-Fi since I am still swirling a bit from the reality of The Vanishing Half. Queued up The Kif Strike Back, the 3rd in the Chaunur series from CJ Cherryh. Familiar characters, adventure, space stuff.

I do like the variety in my fiction!


David J. Schwartz - Jun 21, 2021 12:17:49 pm PDT #26756 of 27912
New, fully poseable Author!Knut.

Hello book Buffistas! I am doing my once-in-a-great-while pop-in to the mother site to share news for those who may have missed it on the Facespace and the Twitterbooks. I have launched a Patreon and I'm posting weekly installments in a serial that will run until December of this year. It concerns a magical bookstore, gender shenanigans, and a shapeshifting wizard proprietor. If this sounds interesting, you can become a patron with full access for just $1. (More is permitted but not expected.)

You can check out the first part over here.

<3


Steph L. - Jun 21, 2021 12:39:38 pm PDT #26757 of 27912
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

^^^^^^ This is SO DELIGHTFUL and I'm loving it. Don't sleep on it.


Laura - Jun 21, 2021 1:51:00 pm PDT #26758 of 27912
Our wings are not tired.

Exciting! Good to see you and the linky. I don't get over to those other places to any great extent so didn't see the news.


Consuela - Jun 22, 2021 9:20:17 pm PDT #26759 of 27912
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Knut! Nice to see your pixels here. I shall check it out.

Laura, I'm so pleased you're enjoying the Chanur novels. Isn't Pyanfar the best? I want her to get her own tv series. I really enjoy Cherryh.

In other news, Mely mentioned Gillian Bradshaw's Cromwell-era historical novels on Twitter today; she's the only other person I know who has read them! We decided that Bradshaw is sadly under-rated and underappreciated, given the volume of really solid historical fiction she has produced over her career.


Toddson - Jun 29, 2021 2:07:28 pm PDT #26760 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

The Smart Bitches have three or four books available on sale every day. Today's included the N.K. Jemison Fifth Season. I check it out every day ... and have found some good books there (also some not so good ones, but at least I didn't pay full price).


Laura - Jun 29, 2021 3:51:11 pm PDT #26761 of 27912
Our wings are not tired.

Laura, I'm so pleased you're enjoying the Chanur novels. Isn't Pyanfar the best?

She certainly is. The current one, #3 The Kif Strike Back, has been a tougher read for me so far. Maybe because I only seem to get a chance to read late night and there are just an overabundance of competing factions. That said, I might have a bit of a crush on Khym. He's an excellent mate.


Toddson - Jul 01, 2021 2:26:09 pm PDT #26762 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I really enjoyed the Chanur novels when they came out; I had a membership in the SF book club, so I got them inexpensively.

I've enjoyed some of the inexpensive e-books I've gotten from the Smart Bitches site (they got me hooked on Talia Hibbert - just finished "Get a Life Chloe Brown", K.J. Charles and a few others). One I finished recently was "Book of Love", which was a nice, quiet romance. No major conflict between the main characters. But it had two people who helped each other change their viewpoint (he'd been told he was stupid, but she kept telling him he wasn't; she'd always believed that she'd never be able to marry someone she actually liked, until she fell for him).

And I got a collection of absolutely bonkers fantasy/romance books - by RJ Blaine. They postulate a world in which magic had gone but came back and now everyone's having to deal with mythical creatures (pixies, whose wing dust gets people high, unicorns, centaurs of various species, lycanthropes of various species, people who can do magic, etc.). And the author seems to have made up a bunch as well. Bonkers, I tell you. Also a fair amount of boinking.


EpicTangent - Jul 01, 2021 3:34:41 pm PDT #26763 of 27912
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

I enjoyed "Get a Life Chloe Brown." I think it was recommended to me on Goodreads for fans of Jasmine Guillory.

Sounds interesting. Maybe I'll add RJ Blaine to the "To Look Into" list.