Anya ,'Get It Done'
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."
Oh, I love the idea of a White Rat/Five Gods crossover. Brilliant.
I have read about three of Gailey's books, but they don't hook me. I feel like they lack complexity or depth or something. It's all about the premise and not about the complicating factors/characters. "Upright Women Wanted" was a premise in search of a story, IMO.
I'm glad they work for some people though.
I fully support those fanfics. Please someone write.
And I only read Magic for Liars and Uprighgt Women—the first just didn’t hook me, the second I liked better, but not enough to reread.
I just learned the author of the book I’m reading got her start writing Buffy fanfic (Naomi Alderman’s The Power). Oh! And MsBelle is reading it too - we are reading it for the virtual book club she invited me to. They let me pick my first time out, which was awfully nice of them.
I did a book talk on Youtube for the American Hippo series (as they reedited it). I loved it. I also liked Magic for Liars and the Mirror Wife but I especially enjoyed the diversity in AH.
I still haven’t read The Power! It’s been sitting on my reader a loooong time (because of Zombie Run, I don’t think I knew about the Buffy fic but it makes sense)
I would have liked The Power more without the framing device. I know the genealogy of it, but it didn't work for me in this context, largely because of all the real-world references to minute things that the framing device tells us are lost to "modern" understanding.
I’ve been listening to it (for example on the way back from Amyth’s memorial) and I wonder if I’m not as aware of the framing device? It’s weird to go back and forth between audio and visual.
I loved the framing device, especially at the end! It's a truly messed up book but really good.
I only got about 3/4 of the way through and I was too worried about bad things happening that I had to stop reading and never finished! But it was really interesting up to that point!
I just finally got the Witness for the Dead from the library, the Goblin Emperor…not sequel, but sorta. I liked it but it felt incomplete? But also I just want lots more stories in that universe.
But also I just want lots more stories in that universe.
Yes! I've been reading a fair amount of fic in that universe, in order to scratch that itch. Some of it is very good indeed.
My book club picked Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love for next month, and simultaneously I started reading Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth, which is a memoir of Brittain's WWI experience. So I'm deep into early-20th C England right now.