'Underneath'
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."
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!
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.
-t, Well, if that's the case - and you want something equally if not more batshit - try her Rejar. He's kind of oversexed ... and turns into a cat. The woman who takes him in, thinking he's a stray, talks about having him neutered (which he nopes out of ASAP).