Illyria: We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief? Wesley: There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy...that your life will lead you to some joy...that after everything...you can still be surprised. Illyria: Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?

'Shells'


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."


Cashmere - Aug 10, 2021 1:42:49 pm PDT #26890 of 27939
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 27939

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 27939
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 27939
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 27939
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 27939
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

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.


-t - Aug 10, 2021 6:18:46 pm PDT #26896 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I think that actually made me just go ahead and read everything by T Kingfisher was The Seventh Bride. No duds, IMO


Toddson - Aug 11, 2021 6:09:27 am PDT #26897 of 27939
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I read her horror novel, The Twisted Ones ... which totally creeped me out. It was definitely a "do not read at night" book for me.


-t - Aug 11, 2021 9:54:03 am PDT #26898 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, yes, I have to be careful with those


juliana - Aug 11, 2021 11:18:47 am PDT #26899 of 27939
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

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.

She does. (I can nerd out about Gibson anytime (even though he kept calling Highway 101 "The 101" in his latest, Agency)).