Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.

Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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."


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.


dcp - Nov 14, 2021 12:35:49 pm PST #27172 of 28074
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

In Gerald Durrell's book My Family and Other Animals he describes Larry as "...designed by Providence to go through life like a small blond firework, exploding ideas in other people's minds, and then curling up with catlike unctuousness and refusing to take any blame for the consequences."

My 11-year-old self had never heard of "unctuousness," but "curling up cat-like" made enough sense to me to go on with, and I looked up the word later.


Toddson - Nov 15, 2021 6:13:04 am PST #27173 of 28074
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I remember reading Gerald Durrell's books back in my teens and laughing over them. I tried reading one of the Alexandria Quartet (my parents had all four) but didn't get it - either I was too young or there really wasn't much of a point to it. I believe his books are still in print.


Cashmere - Nov 15, 2021 9:14:34 am PST #27174 of 28074
Now tagless for your comfort.

I enjoyed Addie LaRue but I was sort of mad about the ending. I stuck with the audiobook on that one and the narrator has a lovely voice. Very Addie.

New Montague Sibling book coming out tomorrow! Shipwrecks and Scandal! It's the Goblin!

I am trying to read at least a few books from the National Book Award list so I got All that She Carried and The Legend of Auntie Po (which I LOVED).


hippocampus - Nov 15, 2021 3:11:43 pm PST #27175 of 28074
not your mom's socks.

I love Auntie Po! That’s all I’ve finished reading because it’s Grading Season and my eyeballs are a bleeding.


sumi - Nov 16, 2021 12:37:31 pm PST #27176 of 28074
Art Crawl!!!

I enjoyed All That She Carried - just the thought of something surviving the rigors of life for that long & the stories that can be told from them was amazing to me. Material culture of people who aren’t the high & the mighty just doesn’t survive often.


Cashmere - Nov 18, 2021 2:49:57 pm PST #27177 of 28074
Now tagless for your comfort.

National Book Awards were announced. Late Night at the Telegraph Club won for YA.

All That She Carried also won.


Toddson - Nov 19, 2021 11:55:12 am PST #27178 of 28074
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

If you're in the mood for some TOTAL WTF-ery, Dara Joy's Knight of a Trillion Stars is on sale. Batshit. A fair amount of explicit sex, but batshit.


Jessica - Nov 19, 2021 12:48:27 pm PST #27179 of 28074
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

A fair amount of explicit sex, but AND batshit.

There, now it's a Buffista rec.


Toddson - Nov 19, 2021 1:22:25 pm PST #27180 of 28074
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Thank you Jessica. You're right.

And other books of hers - equally batshit - are on Kindle, but they're mostly more expensive. This is CHEAP batshit.