Space Opera is very fun. Read on Jess’s strong recommendation, as I recall
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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 14, 2021 6:00:23 am PDT #27017 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
sj - Sep 14, 2021 6:37:56 am PDT #27018 of 28078
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
How about Cat Valente's Space Opera? Anybody?
I love Space Opera! It's fun and weird.
Jessica - Sep 14, 2021 7:15:01 am PDT #27019 of 28078
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Cat Valente's Space Opera
So good in print and 10000x better on audio. (It has been a comfort listen playing on repeat for me since the pandemic started.)
Jessica - Sep 14, 2021 7:16:22 am PDT #27020 of 28078
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
OH AND IT IS GETTING A SEQUEL CALLED SPACE ODDITY [link]
sj - Sep 14, 2021 7:48:09 am PDT #27021 of 28078
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
So good in print and 10000x better on audio. (It has been a comfort listen playing on repeat for me since the pandemic started.)
I've been wanting to listen to the audiobook. Her husband narrates it.
sj - Sep 14, 2021 7:55:45 am PDT #27022 of 28078
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I started reading T Kingfisher's The Seventh Bride last night, and I didn't put it down until a couple seconds before I fell asleep.
Toddson - Sep 14, 2021 9:09:35 am PDT #27023 of 28078
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Glad you lasted until you finished it. (I occasionally wake up with a book on my stomach, my reading glasses sliding off my nose and the light still on.)
I can't deal with audiobooks ... not sure why, but they just don't work for me. I'm fine with e-books, so I keep my reader with me, which I take as a sign I'm not a total luddite.
I recently read "The Inheritance Games" - it's a YA book (got it on sale long enough ago I'd forgotten that) and it was very interesting. Basic plot is that a young girl who's grown up poor (as in having the electricity turned off when her mother couldn't pay the bills) and is suddenly made the major heir to a billionaire she didn't know and wasn't related to. He pretty much disinherits his two daughters and four grandsons; they take it about as well as you might imagine. The main character has to live in his huge house (many, many rooms, secret passages, hidden doors) and the daughters and grandsons can live in the house unless they do something that allows her to kick them out (like trying to kill her). I kept going trying to figure out what was going on; you DO find out what happened, why she was named heir, no cliffhanger, etc. (I do appreciate having the mysteries solved.)
sj - Sep 14, 2021 9:13:40 am PDT #27024 of 28078
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Oh, I didn't finish it, but I put down my kindle under my pillow when I could no longer keep my eyes open and was asleep a few seconds later.
EpicTangent - Sep 14, 2021 11:35:34 am PDT #27025 of 28078
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I occasionally wake up with a book on my stomach, my reading glasses sliding off my nose and the light still on.
I just started another re-read of the Goblin Emperor (Summer Reading Bingo closed this weekend, so I went for a comfort re-read since I didn't have to fill a space!) and it's still so good I don't think I turned off the light until the second time I hit myself with the book after falling asleep with it.
Jessica - Sep 14, 2021 11:36:58 am PDT #27026 of 28078
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I went through about a month of terrible insomnia recently, and recovering my ability to fall asleep while reading has been SUCH a relief.