I have not read any of these books!
You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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."
Jesse - Jul 27, 2021 6:21:00 pm PDT #26865 of 28079
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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).
-t - Jul 28, 2021 7:19:36 am PDT #26871 of 28079
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks for that, juliana! I read a review of The Hands of the Emperor a while back that made me want to check it out but it also mentioned another Goddard title that they didn't want to say you have to read it first but maybe you would want to and so I was dithering on that and meanwhile read something else and forgot why I knew the name Victoria Goddard at all. Now at least I can maybe remember to search for it here if I forget again...
Toddson - Jul 28, 2021 11:21:14 am PDT #26872 of 28079
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Coming in late, but might I suggest just about anything by Connie Willis (Bellwether is my personal favorite). It's less ... fraught ... than some of her other things.
hippocampus - Jul 28, 2021 4:21:14 pm PDT #26873 of 28079
not your mom's socks.
Toddson, I adore Bellwether. And my short story collection of Best of Connie Willis is open right now
Consuela - Jul 28, 2021 9:08:31 pm PDT #26874 of 28079
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, I bought Hands of the Emperor but haven't read it yet. Right now I'm reading I Claudius and Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade, which seems charming.
Here's a rec: Deborah Coates has a series of very evocative supernatural mysteries, set in the Dakotas. Strong characterizations, great sense of place, neat stories. The first one is called Wide Open.