I like the half stars on Library Thing. I love being able to give 3.5 or 4.5 stars. It would be interesting to compare my ratings across the two platforms.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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."
aurelia - Aug 13, 2021 2:24:20 pm PDT #26930 of 28078
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
megan walker - Aug 13, 2021 5:35:10 pm PDT #26931 of 28078
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I like the half stars on Library Thing. I love being able to give 3.5 or 4.5 stars.
I would love half stars on Goodreads. I'm constantly noting them in my reviews. The times I've been at Goodreads headquarters, half stars was always top of the list in terms of requests from almost everyone. I can't remember what their rationale was for not having them.
Consuela - Aug 14, 2021 4:02:52 pm PDT #26932 of 28078
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
She's ripping off Dira Sudis?!?
Well, that's ballsy. Dira's a major pan-fandom writer. That's not picking out some obscure story to steal from. And Dira has plenty of friends. (Hell, I've met her, at Wiscon over a decade ago.)
Toddson - Aug 24, 2021 2:21:44 pm PDT #26933 of 28078
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
An article in the paper a week (or so) ago was discussing SF books and shows, etc., made from them. They suggested that the Pride of Chanur would be good, as well as one of N.K. Jemisin's series.
Beverly - Aug 24, 2021 3:53:27 pm PDT #26934 of 28078
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Costuming, wigs, makeup would be prohibitive, along with practical and cgi, I would think. this isn't an individual, it's a whole ship's crew of another species.
bennett - Aug 24, 2021 5:34:17 pm PDT #26935 of 28078
Several species, in the case of the Chanur series. Including the more-or-less incomprehensible methane breathers. Not sure our CGI technology could handle that yet. To say nothing of the fact it would not be cheap.
But I'd love to see them try.
Consuela - Aug 24, 2021 7:01:36 pm PDT #26936 of 28078
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
But I'd love to see them try.
Animated!
-t - Aug 24, 2021 7:14:03 pm PDT #26937 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
There’s a lot of room for Chanur to be done badly, but done well it would be really sweet
bennett - Aug 25, 2021 6:06:50 am PDT #26938 of 28078
There’s a lot of room for Chanur to be done badly, but done well it would be really sweet
Agreed.
Also, thanks again for the T. Kingfisher recommendation. I've now gone through all the World of the White Rat books. Such fun.
-t - Aug 25, 2021 5:42:43 pm PDT #26939 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hee, I like World of the White Rat as a description! Possibly my favorite fictional religion. And I am a bit of connoisseur.
I am getting overwhelmed by reading material again. I took a break from Dickens (Edwin Drood is still looming) to read Asimov's and Ellery Queen, then I took a break from Ellery Queen to read A Comedy of Terrors and my mom coincidentally was first in line at the library for that so we actually could discuss it while it was fresh in both our minds and all the callbacks and mentions of things that happened in the past that I did not remember AT ALL more or less forced me to start listening to the whole Falco series (conveniently included in my Audible membership [previously read in haphazard fashion as I found them in used book stores for at least the first 12 or 13 {surprisingly I read the first couple pretty soon after they were published} although now I suspect I may have missed a few entirely]) which I am now taking a break from to read the latest Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in part because I know the book review columns are good sources for more things to read...and The Madness of Crowds is out but I don't know when I'll get to that; before I get back to Drood, but other than that, who knows?