Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.

'Safe'


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."


Sophia Brooks - Oct 20, 2021 4:47:19 pm PDT #27121 of 27912
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

The Rogue Satisfies the Lord

This sounds pretty good!


amyparker - Oct 20, 2021 5:15:32 pm PDT #27122 of 27912
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.

I Ignored the Rogue

The Aunt of a Proper Vixen

Her Kind of Seductress

and my personal favorite:

Never Shake a Highlander


-t - Oct 20, 2021 8:22:31 pm PDT #27123 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm reading the Nov/Dec issue of Asimov's (it actually came out last week which seems way too early in October for the November issue of anything, but so did Ellery Queen do I guess that is just how things are) and just got to On Books which this month is Norman Spinrad. I am ambivalent about Spinrad at best, I really liked Child of Fortune when I read it but most of his otherstuffthatI read on the strength of that didn't like so much and he seems kind of damn-kids-offa-my-lawn as a reviewer, but I did read this one, spending the first half trying to remember if I like Harry Turtledove (I don't think I have an opinion on him, ultimately) and the second half trying to figure out if I really don't like Greg Bear or if I have him confused with some other author I don't like (I googled his bibliography and I am pretty sure one of his books is the one that I really disliked so I think it *is* him i dislike although possibly unfairly, sp figuring thatvout feels like a win!) but in the middle he makes a sweeping statement that there are a lot of deus ex machina endings in SF and fantasy "such dramatic failures even tending to dominate Hugos and Nebulas" and I have no idea what he is talking about. It's very likely that I haven't read enough award nominated/winning stuff to judge. It's also very possible that I would not be bothered by or necessarily notice such "dramatic failures" in the same way as Spinrad. But I thought maybe some of you would have opinions?

In conclusion: The Footman's Bluestocking


Pix - Oct 20, 2021 9:33:59 pm PDT #27124 of 27912
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

The Diary of a Naughty Footman

To Strip an Improper Marquess


Toddson - Oct 21, 2021 5:14:40 am PDT #27125 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Is THAT where Chuck Tingle gets his titles?


-t - Oct 21, 2021 7:11:25 am PDT #27126 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The Diary of a Modest Widow

Probably a companion to The Diary of a Naughty Footman. I hope they crossover and give us some of the same events from different viewpoints


Toddson - Oct 21, 2021 7:11:49 am PDT #27127 of 27912
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Regency Rashamon?


Calli - Oct 21, 2021 8:22:50 am PDT #27128 of 27912
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

The first thing I got was: The Fears of a Schoolmistress

Dude, get out of my Zendesk tickets.


-t - Oct 21, 2021 8:56:59 am PDT #27129 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

to Tumble and to Ruin


-t - Oct 21, 2021 9:33:20 am PDT #27130 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

In case any of you are Elizabeth Peters completists - there's a not previously published Amelia Peabody story in the Nov/Dec Ellery Queen

The Princess of Heartache - that sounds like something I might have written as a teen