These are all excellent recs.
Jayne, you'll scare the women.
Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
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."
hippocampus - Jul 27, 2021 3:22:44 pm PDT #26861 of 28079
not your mom's socks.
Jesse - Jul 27, 2021 3:31:33 pm PDT #26862 of 28079
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thanks for all of these!
amyparker - Jul 27, 2021 4:13:04 pm PDT #26863 of 28079
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.
Jesse, if you haven't picked up Ann Leckie's "Imperial Radch" series, I highly recommend it. My current tagline - "In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next" - is from the final book in the series.
Nicola Griffith's Ammonite, N.K. Jemisin's "Broken Earth" and "Inheritance" trilogies, Le Guin's The Telling, Sue Burke's Semiosis (haven't read Interference yet), Kate Elliott's Unconquerable Sun . . . .
Kate P. - Jul 27, 2021 6:17:36 pm PDT #26864 of 28079
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Jesse, have you read anything by Becky Chambers? She's become one of my favorite recent SF writers. A Closed and Common Orbit is probably the closest fit for this challenge, and is also my favorite of her books so far (though I haven't read her latest yet). It's a sequel of sorts to her first book, but you don't need to have read the first one to understand or enjoy the story, though it does spoil a fairly big plot point from the first book.
hippocampus, some of my recent faves are Circe by Madeline Miller, Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia, and Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid.
Jesse - Jul 27, 2021 6:21:00 pm PDT #26865 of 28079
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have not read any of these books!
aurelia - Jul 27, 2021 7:24:32 pm PDT #26866 of 28079
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue was wonderful. It is not, however, a happy, light romp.
juliana - Jul 27, 2021 8:35:27 pm PDT #26867 of 28079
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I, personally, love The Goblin Emperor, but I've also become *obsessed* with Victoria Goddard's The Hands of the Emperor. It's just. So. Gah. The plot is there, but it's really about personal journies and friendships and finding a place for yourself. I also just read N.K. Jemisin's The City We Became, which is fabulous.
meara - Jul 27, 2021 8:58:24 pm PDT #26868 of 28079
If you’re looking for something soothing, I devoured MCA Hogarth’s books (but don’t super recommend the princes one which is super disturbing, but all the others are awesome warm hugs)
hippocampus - Jul 28, 2021 4:56:56 am PDT #26869 of 28079
not your mom's socks.
KateP, I love Circe so much. Checking out Bellweather Rhapsody.
Agreed with all Jemesin recs, always.
And Juliannna, if that book connects in your mind with TGE, that’s a great rec!
Toddson - Jul 28, 2021 5:53:09 am PDT #26870 of 28079
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In unrelated news, Esquire has a story on Why Men Are Reading Romance Novels. Reminds me of years ago, I was reading a book in which a man picks up the romance novel a woman is reading, leafs through it and is AMAZED at what's in it (sex scenes ... explicit sex scenes).