One of the Smart benches recommendations I enjoyed was Spoiler Alert.
This floated to the top of my TBR pile in the past couple of days and it is fun! Such a love letter to fandom and fic. Thanks for the rec, Toddson!
Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.
'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."
-t - Jul 20, 2021 7:53:01 am PDT #26805 of 28166
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jessica - Jul 20, 2021 7:55:09 am PDT #26806 of 28166
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Spoiler Alert was a treat, and it's getting a sequel later this year!
sj - Jul 20, 2021 8:01:02 am PDT #26807 of 28166
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I finished a Deadly Education. I thought it was fairly good. I liked some parts better than others. I'm always uncomfortable when a white author chooses to PoC as their main character, and some of her other choices didn't make me any more comfortable with it.
-t - Jul 20, 2021 8:52:02 am PDT #26808 of 28166
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have pre-ordered the sequel! The whole actor who plays Cupid writing AU fic where Cupid is an actor [as if Misha Collins was writing The French Mistake fic] business was just meta-ridic enough to be highly amusing to me
Toddson - Jul 20, 2021 10:03:41 am PDT #26809 of 28166
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The whole thing seemed very Buffista-oriented - fanfic, cosplay, etc. Looking forward to the sequel - the Cupid actor seemed like a fun character to read about (and I think I got hit with autocorrect ... it was the SmartBitches ... sigh).
amyparker - Jul 20, 2021 10:04:55 am PDT #26810 of 28166
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
I'm so happy to know that I'm not the only person here who liked Spoiler Alert!
Toddson - Jul 20, 2021 10:17:55 am PDT #26811 of 28166
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I figure I can be upfront with my sometimes trashy reading choices ... but this wasn't trashy and it did seem like something my 'ffistas would enjoy (and, in re autocorrect, to quote a comment I saw, "it's NEVER duck").
-t - Jul 20, 2021 10:43:31 am PDT #26812 of 28166
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, Toddson, that's the Good Place extension that I still have on my browser (and forgot about) changing bitch to bench. I have gotten too used to it!
Toddson - Jul 20, 2021 11:19:41 am PDT #26813 of 28166
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
So with that extension, it IS "duck"?
-t - Jul 20, 2021 11:20:48 am PDT #26814 of 28166
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
No, it’s fork