Snuggled up on the couch with a fire going, a soft blankie and a cat curled up next to you read? (yeah, that's too long, but it's pretty much how I feel ... except I don't have a fireplace/firepit or a cat).
Don't I get a cookie?
Spike ,'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 - Nov 10, 2021 12:33:27 pm PST #27162 of 28074
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Pix - Nov 10, 2021 7:58:12 pm PST #27163 of 28074
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I adore The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and that whole Inheritance series. I reread that series and the Dreamblood series during the pandemic, and they remain so damned good.
hippocampus - Nov 11, 2021 3:39:19 pm PST #27164 of 28074
not your mom's socks.
I am Pix and t in this. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is a favorite. Has anyone read Empire of Sand (Tasha Suri)? Very different book but it pulled me in in much the same way.
I really enjoyed Addie LaRue! And somewhere along the way, my brain decided that it was kind of a genderflipped Highlander and (A) I like it even more now, and (B) mad I didn't think of that.
meara - Nov 11, 2021 5:30:33 pm PST #27165 of 28074
I am reading Hands of the Emperor and enjoying it but got to a part that I thought was maybe 85% done and looked down and realized I was only 25% through. This is a long book!
-t - Nov 11, 2021 7:17:03 pm PST #27166 of 28074
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have read Empire of Sand! A while ago so details are fuzzy, but I certainly liked it very much.
Hands of the Emperor is hella long. I would have been more reluctant to start it, probably, if I had realized that before starting, especially if I was carrying around an actual thick paper book, so pretty glad I didn’t check that going in tbh
Consuela - Nov 13, 2021 6:39:45 pm PST #27167 of 28074
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
This is a long book!
It really is, but I admit that I enjoyed it a lot.
I'm trying to read Justine by Lawrence Durrell for book club, but it's a bit too much for me. Very literary and lots of bullshit about the sex lives of incomprehensible women. As if that's the only thing of interest about them. I'm not sure I'm gonna finish this.
Jesse - Nov 13, 2021 7:17:39 pm PST #27168 of 28074
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Did you watch The Durrells in Corfu? I haven't read any of his work, but I've heard enough that it seems like it would hilarious in the context of the character on the show.
Consuela - Nov 14, 2021 7:24:35 am PST #27169 of 28074
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I saw an episode, I think. Those books were written by Lawrence Durrell's brother, who clearly had a sense of humor. I don't think Lawrence did...
dcp - Nov 14, 2021 7:30:22 am PST #27170 of 28074
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Oh, agreed. I discovered Gerald Durrell's books when I was in middle school and they were a huge influence on me. Then in high school I found out that Lawrence Durrell actually *had* published, went looking for The Alexandria Quartet, found Justine and hated it. Never tried it again, never tried the other three.
Jesse - Nov 14, 2021 11:32:20 am PST #27171 of 28074
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Larry's just a total tool poseur artiste on the show, which adds up, coming from his younger brother's writing.