I found an Ursula K. LeGuin tribute in the form of a collection of stories called Dispatches from Anarres at the library today. I had no idea that this was happening.
You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.
Xander ,'Help'
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 - Jan 20, 2022 8:09:08 pm PST #27269 of 27939
Art Crawl!!!
hippocampus - Jan 21, 2022 1:21:10 pm PST #27270 of 27939
not your mom's socks.
The Green Bone Saga is one of my heart's favorites. Fonda Lee is a kickass delight.
I am having a hard time reading outside of student work (too many screens) but have been loving the paper version of Ryka Aoki's Light from Uncommon Stars.
sumi - Jan 21, 2022 5:05:27 pm PST #27271 of 27939
Art Crawl!!!
I loved that book! Music, demons, space aliens, doughnuts!!
juliana - Jan 24, 2022 11:45:16 am PST #27272 of 27939
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I need to re-read that book. I went into it cold and was vastly confused for most of it. I think the 2nd read will be much better.
hippocampus - Jan 25, 2022 5:23:07 am PST #27273 of 27939
not your mom's socks.
I'm loving it too. And now also (thx to a friend's rec) working through Red Comet, the brilliantly done Plath biography.
sj - Feb 03, 2022 7:04:17 am PST #27274 of 27939
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I started reading The Wife Upstairs last night, and I keep laughing out loud at the way the author has updated the Jane Eyre characters. My biggest problem with the book so far is that the main character isn't actually much like Jane Eyre, imho.
I read the first book of the Green Bone Saga, which I enjoyed, and I'm trying to decide if I should reread it before I read the next two.
-t - Feb 03, 2022 7:16:36 am PST #27275 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
sj, I started reading the third book when I got it and after maybe a chapter or 2 decided I had better re-read the first two as I did not remember who any of the characters were in relation to one another. Reading all 3 one after the other was very satisfying
sj - Feb 03, 2022 7:29:43 am PST #27276 of 27939
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Thanks, -t. Maybe I listen the first one on audiobook. I'm usually better about listening to a book I've already read than rereading it.
-t - Feb 03, 2022 8:15:27 am PST #27277 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's a good idea
Consuela - Feb 03, 2022 6:31:07 pm PST #27278 of 27939
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I tried to read Jade City and it was just too violent for me. Also that other one, The Poppy War? Just... I couldn't.
We read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall for book club, which I mostly enjoyed, because it's so full of irony. ALL the men are tools. I'm not sure even the writer understood that...