Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.

Tara ,'First Date'


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."


sumi - Jul 05, 2021 8:51:23 am PDT #26769 of 27939
Art Crawl!!!

erika - what excellent news!!! I will add the pre-order date to my calendar.


-t - Jul 05, 2021 2:04:22 pm PDT #26770 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

erika, please remind us when we can pre-order, because I definitely want to and I know I will forget. I like the sound of the anthology, good title!


Toddson - Jul 07, 2021 9:27:32 am PDT #26771 of 27939
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

The first book in a new fantasy series by Ann Leckie is on sale on Amazon. I didn't even try to resist.


shrift - Jul 07, 2021 10:27:48 am PDT #26772 of 27939
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Oh, The Raven Tower! I read that last year before the pandemic and I recall enjoying it quite a lot.


-t - Jul 07, 2021 3:24:08 pm PDT #26773 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I love The Raven Tower so much! SO MUCH. That's an excellent price. I didn't know it was going to be a series, that's very exciting!


Toddson - Jul 09, 2021 10:15:48 am PDT #26774 of 27939
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

One of the Smart Bitches recommendations I enjoyed was Spoiler Alert. It seemed a very Buffista sort of book (romance-y) - he's the star of a fairly long-running TV show (Game of Thrones type), she's a big fan. Both have a good deal of baggage - he's dyslexic (his parents are teachers and assumed he didn't learn because he was lazy), she's fat (and her parents HATE fat). Both write fanfic. They meet, fall for each other, have misunderstandings, but come together in the end. And it's $1.99 for the e-book.


-t - Jul 09, 2021 10:35:46 am PDT #26775 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

For $1.99 I can give that a try. Some time after Bleak House. I'm very proud of myself for starting Bleak House - I find Dickens intimidating and for quite a while I just looked at it out of the corner of my eye and thought "not yet" and then I read the Preface and had to put it away for another week or so but I am in Chapter 3 today so I think this time it's really happening.

Keep getting earwormed with the tune of Brick House.


sj - Jul 09, 2021 1:01:37 pm PDT #26776 of 27939
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Todd son, I bought that last week. I’m glad to hear it’s good.

If anyone has finished Witness for the Dead (the Goblin Emperor sequel) and wants to discuss it, I need to talks about it with someone.


Calli - Jul 09, 2021 1:04:15 pm PDT #26777 of 27939
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

And it's a Bleak. House.

Lawsuits and lawyers, just letting it all hang out.

Yes it's a Bleak. House. [spoilers coming]

Nothing left over, the bequest is all tapped out.


Toddson - Jul 09, 2021 1:26:21 pm PDT #26778 of 27939
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Jarndyce v. Jarndyce ... and yup. There was a TV version that had Gillian Anderson as Lady ... whatever. An older one that had Diana Rigg in the same role.