Ngaio Marsh has some appalling racism and homophobia.
Wesley: Illyria can be...difficult. Testing her might be hard without getting someone seriously hurt. Angel: We'll make Spike do it. Wesley: Good.
'Underneath'
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."
Dana - Feb 17, 2022 4:12:23 pm PST #27319 of 28067
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Sophia Brooks - Feb 17, 2022 4:16:59 pm PST #27320 of 28067
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think if I examine the difference with JK Rowling and Christie and March is that they are dead and not on social media. So I can take in their stuff. I can like it/choose to be appalled by it/examine both at a distance. I can do that with Harry Potter as a series, but then JK Rowling just keeps popping up! With opinions.
And yes, the fact that it is just not plot related is weird!
-t - Feb 17, 2022 4:19:08 pm PST #27321 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
She does. I've spent more time thinking about hers because it's kind of isolated in particular books, not randomly sprinkled throughout and that is confusing. And some of it is, I think, trying to be progressive or enlightened or something but it really doesn't come off. Have come to no conclusion about it, other than I wish she didn't.
amyparker - Feb 23, 2022 2:05:55 pm PST #27322 of 28067
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
We share poems here, yes? My friend wrote this one; the author photo is of course the one with the motherfucking BEAR in the background, Sara. And the high visibility vest she's wearing is fluorescent pink, in a thus far successful effort to keep the male foresters from strolling off with it.
(Yes, a bear: she was in the field with two colleagues, one of them had eaten a sandwich about 15 minutes earlier, they started around a copse and not 50 feet away, there was a bear. Sara stood there and calmly explained that while the sandwich had in fact smelled great, it was gone now, and it would be better for all parties concerned if the bear looked for a snack further up the hill. And one of the foresters TOOK A PICTURE as this was happening.)
Calli - Feb 24, 2022 7:06:41 am PST #27323 of 28067
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
That is a gorgeous poem, amyparker.
Consuela - Feb 25, 2022 10:04:33 pm PST #27324 of 28067
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I finally got Piranesi from the library and read it in one sitting tonight.
SO GOOD. So beautifully written, despite the slow reveal of horror and trauma in the past. So many vivid gorgeous passages! So much kindness as well.
That's a very good book.
Laura - Feb 26, 2022 6:23:37 am PST #27325 of 28067
Our wings are not tired.
That is one of the few books I may have to read again. It was really unique.
Kate P. - Feb 26, 2022 7:35:16 am PST #27326 of 28067
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Yes! I just read that myself and felt like I was under a spell the whole time I was reading it. It's so strange and beautiful and magical. It also made me want to go back and reread The Magician's Nephew, which was apparently one of her influences.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 26, 2022 12:30:24 pm PST #27327 of 28067
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh wow- I love The Magician’s Nephew, so that makes me want to read it.
Dana - Feb 26, 2022 1:00:07 pm PST #27328 of 28067
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I've had that on hold at the library for like a year.