Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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."
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.
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.
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).
I love Auntie Po! That’s all I’ve finished reading because it’s Grading Season and my eyeballs are a bleeding.
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.
National Book Awards were announced. Late Night at the Telegraph Club won for YA.
All That She Carried also won.
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.
A fair amount of explicit sex,butAND batshit.
There, now it's a Buffista rec.
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.
Available through Kindle Unlimited, so basically free. OK!