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.
No power in the 'verse can stop me.
River ,'War Stories'
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 28, 2021 4:42:48 pm PDT #26962 of 28078
Now tagless for your comfort.
-t - Aug 28, 2021 5:58:52 pm PDT #26963 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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)
DebetEsse - Aug 28, 2021 6:15:16 pm PDT #26964 of 28078
Woe to the fucking wicked.
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.
javachik - Aug 28, 2021 6:37:40 pm PDT #26965 of 28078
Our wings are not tired.
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.
Pix - Aug 28, 2021 9:11:48 pm PDT #26966 of 28078
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I loved the framing device, especially at the end! It's a truly messed up book but really good.
meara - Aug 28, 2021 11:02:02 pm PDT #26967 of 28078
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.
Consuela - Aug 29, 2021 10:29:29 am PDT #26968 of 28078
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
DavidS - Aug 29, 2021 11:53:09 am PDT #26969 of 28078
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My book club picked Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love for next month,
Side note: The great cartoonist Mimi Pond has been working on a history of the Mitford sisters and posting pages as she goes and it looks amazing.
Consuela - Aug 29, 2021 12:09:50 pm PDT #26970 of 28078
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, that sounds fun, Hec -- where is she posting this stuff?
DavidS - Aug 29, 2021 12:17:57 pm PDT #26971 of 28078
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've been following her on FB, but you can scan through all the posted pages more quickly at Instagram:
She's really having fun digging into the layout of each page, and dishing both the interpersonal family dirt, historical weirdness and context of the era.