Mal: You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you here looking at me like I owe him something? Jayne: Wishing I could, Captain.

'Jaynestown'


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."


Calli - Oct 12, 2021 3:54:49 pm PDT #27095 of 27912
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I loved it and I’m going back to reread the others. I’m glad it looks like we’ll get more in this world. I hope they have more Zale.


Pix - Oct 12, 2021 5:26:04 pm PDT #27096 of 27912
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

I love all these books! I was thrilled when the latest popped up on my Kindle.


Toddson - Oct 13, 2021 5:30:47 am PDT #27097 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

More Zale would be good ... maybe a romance for them? or someone to figure out how to keep their hair from getting in the way.

I think Jorge automatically flirts. Period.


-t - Oct 14, 2021 5:06:53 pm PDT #27098 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Listened to The Thursday Murder Club and The Man Who Died Twice on Fay’s recommendation elsewhere (she specifically recced the narrator as giving the line readings she would, so I was certainly going to pay attention to that!) and the second one just ended and I am a little bereft. The mysteries are quite good, and the characters are terrific and there’s some really nice treatment of grief and trauma and morality in an overall very pleasant package. If you like that sort of thing you will probably like these.


megan walker - Oct 14, 2021 8:29:46 pm PDT #27099 of 27912
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

The mysteries are quite good, and the characters are terrific and there’s some really nice treatment of grief and trauma and morality in an overall very pleasant package. If you like that sort of thing you will probably like these.

Oddly enough, I was just discussing Only Murders in the Building with my college roommate yesterday and she recommended those books to me based on our conversation. I hadn't heard of them before.


bennett - Oct 15, 2021 7:03:14 am PDT #27100 of 27912

Well, I'm now 99th on 6 copies of "The Thursday Murder Club" at my public library. Apparently other people have heard that it is good also.


Dana - Oct 15, 2021 7:21:24 am PDT #27101 of 27912
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I've had it downloaded for ages because I love Richard Osman. Sounds like I should get to it soon.


-t - Oct 15, 2021 7:51:23 am PDT #27102 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I hadn't heard of it before, and I was only vaguely aware of Richard Osman. I guess the second one set some kind of record for sales? Something.

Anyway, haven't seen Only Murders in the Building yet but from the ads I can see where there might be kinship


Dana - Oct 15, 2021 8:15:24 am PDT #27103 of 27912
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Things to know about Richard Osman:

He is very smart.

He is very tall.


-t - Oct 15, 2021 8:18:18 am PDT #27104 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I had no idea of the tallness. Okay!

There's a 45 minute conversation included at the end of The Thursday Murder Club between him and another author whose name I didn't catch but she wrote The Grown-ups, I think? It's also a good listen. So at this point that is mostly how I know him, I suppose.