Note to self: religion freaky.

Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'


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."


Toddson - Sep 24, 2021 5:45:17 am PDT #27056 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I read The Twisted Ones (which I think is connected to The Hollow Place) and it scared me enough that I wouldn't read it at night. So I'm giving the other a pass. But enjoy!


sj - Sep 24, 2021 7:11:39 am PDT #27057 of 27912
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

So far I haven't found it particularly scary.


-t - Sep 24, 2021 11:33:44 am PDT #27058 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah, The Hollow Place was very different. I know I liked it, I think the world-building (if that's the right word, core concepts maybe?) was interesting. I don't have any familiarity with the works she's riffing on for Hollow Place and Twisted Ones but I did what she does with them.


Consuela - Sep 25, 2021 8:05:26 am PDT #27059 of 27912
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I finally read the first Sholomance book while traveling this week! I enjoyed it, although it's one book that might be better in hard copy than on Kindle, because my Paperwhite doesn't show the illustrations very well. I should probably google up a schematic of the school.

I do have a question, though: I must have missed the bit where Novik explains why children are so at risk: are the maleficaria just more attracted to kids, or are they just less able to defend themselves? And how is the mundane world not aware of any of this?


-t - Sep 25, 2021 8:29:44 am PDT #27060 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

There are illustrations? Hm. Kinda want to reread that to be able to discuss it intelligently...and the next book comes out next week so that's a better idea than I first supposed!


-t - Sep 25, 2021 9:14:31 am PDT #27061 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Unrelatedly, I am frustrated that I can’t search audiobooks for a character name to remind myself how we originally met this particular character 7 books ago. My theory that binge-listening to the Flavia Albia series would let me keep details from earlier books in mind by the time I got to the most recent is not playing out as well as I hoped. Oh well, slightly more retention of knowledge is worthwhile.


-t - Sep 25, 2021 9:34:18 am PDT #27062 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Thanks to my freshman-year Maleficaria Studies textbook, I know that our deliciousness goes up another order of magnitude every six months between thirteen and eighteen, all wrapped up inside a thin and easy-to-break sugar shell instead of the tough chewy hide of a grown wizard.

That may be all the explanation we get


aurelia - Sep 25, 2021 11:24:08 am PDT #27063 of 27912
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Thanks for the recommendations, Cashmere.


-t - Sep 25, 2021 8:55:31 pm PDT #27064 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It does have illustrations and they are even labeled in the table of contents. Hard to see while reading on my phone but pretty nice on the Kindle Fire. I’m all excited about book 2 again, whee!


-t - Sep 28, 2021 9:59:47 am PDT #27065 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I am tempted by the forthcoming Outlander book; Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone is an excellent title! I stopped reading after book 5, I think, exasperated with plot development and character choices at that point. I haven't watched the show at all, although that's more just lack of capacity to watch much of anything. Anyway, anyone have opinions on whether it would be worthwhile to just read the new book cold, or if I should pick back up at book 6, or not bother? I don't think I want to start back at the beginning although now that I say that maybe I should - I read them out of order originally and maybe I would be less irritated by everyone now (or maybe I would be more irritated, hard to predict)