You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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."


-t - Sep 07, 2021 8:02:19 am PDT #26999 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

::saving flowchart for later::

Choosing where to start still looks kind of overwhelming but I won't need to do it until I have gotten through more of my current Read This Next queue, maybe I will have more of a preference at that point


-t - Sep 08, 2021 8:07:19 am PDT #27000 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Piranesi appears to be on sale is anyone is curious about it


meara - Sep 08, 2021 9:05:03 am PDT #27001 of 28078

I just got it from the library and was very confused, tbh. Interesting but confusing.


-t - Sep 08, 2021 10:16:41 am PDT #27002 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It's got a very strong element of "WTF is going on?", for sure


Toddson - Sep 08, 2021 10:49:29 am PDT #27003 of 28078
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

There's too much WTF in my real life; I'd prefer not to deal with it in literature.


-t - Sep 08, 2021 11:57:30 am PDT #27004 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Perhaps not the best word choice. There's a lot of mystery, which I quite like.


Laura - Sep 08, 2021 1:48:54 pm PDT #27005 of 28078
Our wings are not tired.

There is a great deal of WTF, but presented in a very intriguing and compelling way.


aurelia - Sep 12, 2021 8:57:44 am PDT #27006 of 28078
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I could use book recommendations for my grandmother's 95th birthday. The last time I got Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend by Karen Blumenthal.


Kate P. - Sep 12, 2021 9:09:06 am PDT #27007 of 28078
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

So, recent biographies or history books? Just American history, or are there other eras/places she's interested in?


aurelia - Sep 12, 2021 9:42:52 am PDT #27008 of 28078
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Biographies, history, historical fiction... Probably best to stick with American. I think she's started reading romances again but I have no idea what she's already read in that genre.