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.
Spike: Or maybe Captain Forehead was feeling a little less special. Didn't like me crashing his exclusive club, another vampire with a soul in the world. Angel: You're not in the world, Casper.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
sumi - Nov 16, 2021 12:37:31 pm PST #27176 of 27939
Art Crawl!!!
Cashmere - Nov 18, 2021 2:49:57 pm PST #27177 of 27939
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 27939
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 27939
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 27939
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 27939
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 27939
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.
Toddson - Nov 19, 2021 4:00:51 pm PST #27183 of 27939
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
-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).
-t - Nov 19, 2021 4:26:03 pm PST #27184 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Immediately got the rec for that when I downloaded this one...
Consuela - Nov 19, 2021 6:39:20 pm PST #27185 of 27939
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
For anyone who enjoyed Hands of the Emperor, I'm part of the way into The Return of Fitzroy Angursell and quite enjoying it. For one thing, there's a lot more action. Although the lead character is definitely the type who loves the drama. If he wasn't canonically quite dark-skinned, Tom Hiddleston would be a great casting choice.