I'm currently reading (hard copy) Plain Bad Heroines. I'd read the reviews and thought it sounded interesting, although I misunderstood what it was about. I'm not enjoying it as much as I thought I would. It just seems to be going nowhere - I'm not sure what the author intended it to be about, although I'm willing to go along with it and see where it ends up. Anyone else have any perspective on it?
Well, look who just popped open a fresh can of venom.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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."
Toddson - Feb 28, 2022 9:14:22 am PST #27331 of 28034
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Toddson - Mar 01, 2022 10:17:29 am PST #27332 of 28034
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Seemingly, T. Kingfisher's "Paladin's Grace" is on sale. If you haven't read it, it's delightful.
Consuela - Mar 01, 2022 8:00:54 pm PST #27333 of 28034
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
All of T. Kingfisher's stuff is delightful, although I have avoided the horror bcz I'm a weenie.
Toddson - Mar 02, 2022 5:24:47 am PST #27334 of 28034
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Yeah, the horror is too horrifying for me - I got through one (reading only in the daytime) and decided no on any others. But the Paladins are good, the variations on fairy tales I've read I've enjoyed. I think Swordheart is at or near the top of my list.
Dana - Mar 02, 2022 2:21:17 pm PST #27335 of 28034
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Uhura's Song, an excellent Trek novel from the Pocket Books era, is on sale for 99 cents today.
meara - Mar 02, 2022 3:29:31 pm PST #27336 of 28034
One of the like, three books I kept when I pared down my collection many years ago! So good.
-t - Mar 02, 2022 3:31:33 pm PST #27337 of 28034
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sweet! Bought.
dcp - Mar 02, 2022 4:52:30 pm PST #27338 of 28034
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye
Uhura's Song was what introduced me to Janet Kagan. I am a fan of all her work.
She was one of the first authors I looked for online, back in '97. She posted some nice winter snowfall pictures on her web site, so I sent her a few of mine, and we exchanged a few emails from time to time after that.
If you haven't read Hellspark or Mirabile, I recommend them even more highly than Uhura's Song.
-t - Mar 02, 2022 5:10:09 pm PST #27339 of 28034
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I bought Hellspark last time you recommended it, I think, dcp, but I haven’t read it yet. And I have a sample of Mirabile to remind me get it eventually
dcp - Mar 02, 2022 5:12:35 pm PST #27340 of 28034
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye
I think Uhura's Song is the one where Chekov complains, "All doctors are wampires."