Buffy ,'Touched'
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."
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.
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.
Oh, that sounds fun, Hec -- where is she posting this stuff?
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.
Do you have any specific recommendations, Consuela? I just took a quick look for Goblin Emperor fic and there is a lot…
Apparently I have only bookmarked two? Bad fan: [link]
Thanks!
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!
I went looking for Witness for the Dead fic, but was disappointed by the lack of Thara/Pel-Thenhior (there's a bit more now, which makes me happy). Sadly, I struggle with the world building in that universe enough to be unable to be the fic I want to see in the world.
Just finished Piranesi (I am binging that NPR list. I should probably slow down, but I've got 4 books whose loans will expire in the next week/10 days.) I think I liked it? It was sort of like the T Kingfisher books, but without the creeping dread. I think I'd have liked it more had I imprinted harder on the Narnia books. It is a very lock-down-y sort of book (which makes sense having read one of her interviews.)