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.
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
Xander ,'Selfless'
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 15, 2021 6:13:04 am PST #27173 of 28074
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
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,butAND 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.
-t - Nov 19, 2021 3:19:19 pm PST #27181 of 28074
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Available through Kindle Unlimited, so basically free. OK!
Consuela - Nov 19, 2021 3:59:35 pm PST #27182 of 28074
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Only one person at Book Club had actually finished Justine, which I think is a record. Only did worse with Ulysses, I guess.
I did think Durrell's prose was pretty good, and he had some vivid turns of phrase, but the book was otherwise pretty unreadable. Hella sexist, kind of racist, very colonial, and just no narrative momentum for the first half, at which point I put it down and went back to bingeing Silmarillion fic on AO3.