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.
You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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."
hippocampus - Jan 21, 2022 1:21:10 pm PST #27270 of 28067
not your mom's socks.
sumi - Jan 21, 2022 5:05:27 pm PST #27271 of 28067
Art Crawl!!!
I loved that book! Music, demons, space aliens, doughnuts!!
juliana - Jan 24, 2022 11:45:16 am PST #27272 of 28067
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 28067
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 28067
"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 28067
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 28067
"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 28067
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 28067
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...
-t - Feb 04, 2022 8:09:25 am PST #27279 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Unnatural Magic by C M Waggoner is on sale for $1.99 per BookBub. I liked this bok a lot though I cannot recommend it quite as highly as the second book, The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry which is just immensely fun but not on sale right now
Eta: yeah, the whole Green Bone saga is pretty darn violent. I can totally understand not wanting to immerse one's self in that.