I loved the framing device, especially at the end! It's a truly messed up book but really good.
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'Objects In Space'
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."
Pix - Aug 28, 2021 9:11:48 pm PDT #26966 of 28078
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
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.
-t - Aug 29, 2021 3:36:49 pm PDT #26972 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Do you have any specific recommendations, Consuela? I just took a quick look for Goblin Emperor fic and there is a lot…
Consuela - Aug 29, 2021 4:33:29 pm PDT #26973 of 28078
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Apparently I have only bookmarked two? Bad fan: [link]
-t - Aug 29, 2021 9:55:29 pm PDT #26974 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks!
meara - Aug 29, 2021 10:44:17 pm PDT #26975 of 28078
Will check out those recs! I had read most all the Goblin Emperor fic as of last Yuletide, but imagine more has been added with the new book!