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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."

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Cashmere - Aug 09, 2021 7:23:01 pm PDT #26886 of 28079

Now tagless for your comfort.

Oh, speaking of recs, I think my best shot at a prize in the library's summer reading bingo includes a science fiction book with a female protagonist. I haven't read much science fiction at all (other than Bujold), so would love a recommendation!

I love Connie Willis' Doomsday Book (Dueling pandemics! Time Travel!) But I also love William Gibson's female protagonists--Cayce Pollard in Pattern Recognition, especially. Molly Millions in Neuromancer (although she's a secondary character.)

I found a book about Kit Marlowe (A Tip for the Hangman). Queer Kit! His recruitment by Walsingham. The author admits to some shuffling of time/events and characters (she adds Kit to the Babbington Plot). BUT it wasn't enough to bother a Tudor history buff like me. Really good internal motivation for Kit. Strong recs all around. Great audiobook narrator.

Kate P. - Aug 09, 2021 8:06:29 pm PDT #26887 of 28079

That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Whoever recommended KJ Charles' books, thank you! I'm on the second Will Darling book and thoroughly enjoying them.

Toddson - Aug 10, 2021 5:42:40 am PDT #26888 of 28079

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

They're so good. I was lured in by the Magpie Lord series and went on to buy others. At this point, when a new K.J. Charles is announced, I pre-order ... and am delightfully surprised when it lands in my e-reader.

Calli - Aug 10, 2021 9:00:29 am PDT #26889 of 28079

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

At this point, when a new K.J. Charles is announced, I pre-order ... and am delightfully surprised when it lands in my e-reader.

Same.

Speaking of female-led scifi, I suggested my book group read Gideon the Ninth this month, and they agreed. I'm not sure how the meme-y aspects are going to land with this particular group. Or the horror. At least the gay will go down a treat (which is one reason I've been in this book group for ~20 years). It's been fun re-reading it.

Cashmere - Aug 10, 2021 1:42:49 pm PDT #26890 of 28079

Now tagless for your comfort.

At this point, when a new K.J. Charles is announced, I pre-order ... and am delightfully surprised when it lands in my e-reader.

EVERY DAMN RELEASE. I can't recommend Wanted: A Gentleman, enough. Or the Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting. Or Unfit to Print.

bennett - Aug 10, 2021 1:44:44 pm PDT #26891 of 28079

I also need to thank whoever recommended "A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking". Great fun. Now I need to glom her backlist.

-t - Aug 10, 2021 2:07:05 pm PDT #26892 of 28079

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, you are in for some treats, bennet!

Toddson - Aug 10, 2021 2:24:41 pm PDT #26893 of 28079

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I can recommend Swordheart and the two Paladin books by Kingfisher. Also the Clockwork Boys and its associated sequel/prequel (which I'm drawing a blank on the title).

hippocampus - Aug 10, 2021 2:34:15 pm PDT #26894 of 28079

not your mom's socks.

Cashmere, I am the same about Cayce and Molly Millions (I want her to have her own book) and also the entire crew from The Peripheral.

dcp - Aug 10, 2021 2:49:44 pm PDT #26895 of 28079

The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Molly Millions

I think she had a substantial role in Mona Lisa Overdrive but it has been so long since I read that, I don't remember the details.

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