Immediately got the rec for that when I downloaded this one...
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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."
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.
Excellent, I have that on hold at the library, Suela.
Today the woman who cuts my hair asked if I had heard of Naomi Novik. "Hmmm, yes, I've read one or two things of hers."
I made it back to the car before I started laughing.
If this is the sort of thing you like, you will like this: Sherwood Smith discusses the literary history of the Regency romance. [link]
Interesting. I just read my first Heyer recently, but it was a contemporary (at the time it was written) mystery. I’ve read some random regency romances here and there and found it a little odd how not like Austen they were while being very much like each other.
my annual First Lines challenge
I got one this year! Woot!
Here are the rest of the answers to my First Lines challenge: [link]
And here's hoping I read a lot more books next year so as to have a wider selection!
I knew I read number 3 and I am kicking myself over number 5, which I was 100 percent sure was Agatha Christie. I must have read that book 100 times, but probably not in 35 years!