Oh, The Raven Tower! I read that last year before the pandemic and I recall enjoying it quite a lot.
Mal: You are very much lacking in imagination. Zoe: I imagine that's so, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
shrift - Jul 07, 2021 10:27:48 am PDT #26772 of 28172
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
-t - Jul 07, 2021 3:24:08 pm PDT #26773 of 28172
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 28172
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 28172
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 28172
"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 28172
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 28172
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.
Jesse - Jul 09, 2021 1:29:17 pm PDT #26779 of 28172
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The thing about Bleak House is it looks intimidating, but it's just a soap opera. In my experience, it also benefits from breaks -- it was originally a serial, after all.
-t - Jul 09, 2021 1:58:39 pm PDT #26780 of 28172
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thank you Calli! I needed lyrics. And the Gillian Anderson version was one of my draws for reading it, I heard that was good when it came out. I think I saw the Great Expectations with her as Miss Havisham and that was...I don't know. I never really got the hang of Great Expectations.
sj, I would love to talk about Witness for the Dead
Consuela - Jul 09, 2021 3:57:28 pm PDT #26781 of 28172
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
Oh, yes! I read it last weekend (or the weekend before, time is still pretty freaking elastic). Enjoyed it although didn't adore it the way I loved GE. I think I would appreciate Thara being more open with his emotions, at least to himself?
But I really enjoyed the world-building and the day-to-day ness of it all. This is life in this city for ordinary people, unlike life in the capital as Emperor. Liked that a lot.