I'm loving it too. And now also (thx to a friend's rec) working through Red Comet, the brilliantly done Plath biography.
Oh, God. Oh, God. My hair. My hair! The government gave me bad hair!
Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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 25, 2022 5:23:07 am PST #27273 of 28067
not your mom's socks.
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.
DebetEsse - Feb 05, 2022 10:27:40 am PST #27280 of 28067
Woe to the fucking wicked.
There are too many books, you guys.
I finished The Last Graduate yesterday (which I liked well enough to rec to my family), and I've got 6 ebooks out from the library, and 1 physical book (Because they had the first two in the trilogy in e-book, but not the third because...reasons?) And I was looking at them this morning to check how many of them have sequels, because then finishing that book just adds another book to the pile.
2 of the e-books are the final in a trilogy (Last Emperox and Empire of Gold). The physical book is (Acceptance). And one of the e-books is a stand-alone collection of short stories.
I'm also on 9 waitlists (one is ready to borrow, but I'm putting it off till tomorrow to buy me an extra day). At least 7 of them are part of a series.
-t - Feb 05, 2022 2:42:26 pm PST #27281 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
There are too many books, you guys.
And more keep being written! It's a problem.
dcp - Feb 05, 2022 2:56:49 pm PST #27282 of 28067
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
There are too many books, you guys.
I am sad to admit that not only do I have no hope of ever making it through my "to be read" pile, lately I have been noticing books on my shelves and realizing, "I know I've read that, but I don't remember it at all."