Sweet! Bought.
Kaylee: Is that him? Mal: That's the buffet table. Kaylee: Well how can we be sure, unless we question it?
'Shindig'
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."
-t - Mar 02, 2022 3:31:33 pm PST #27337 of 27942
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
dcp - Mar 02, 2022 4:52:30 pm PST #27338 of 27942
"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 27942
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 27942
"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."
Toddson - Mar 03, 2022 5:50:12 am PST #27341 of 27942
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I got Mirabile for my sister - who didn't like it as much as I did - and for myself. My hard copy has disappeared, but I got the e-book. Somehow, my hard copy of Hellspark is still around. I liked it, but not as much as Mirabile. I have high hopes for Uhura's Song.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 03, 2022 8:41:50 am PST #27342 of 27942
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Thank you for the Pirenesi recommendation! I read it in two sittings- communte home, commute in- I just could not put it down!
Consuela - Mar 04, 2022 1:21:15 pm PST #27343 of 27942
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wasn't it lovely? So good.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 06, 2022 9:24:50 am PST #27344 of 27942
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I just wanted to crawl inside it. I was interested that she was inspired by The Magician’s Nephew, which I also love.
-t - Mar 06, 2022 2:37:56 pm PST #27345 of 27942
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just wanted to crawl inside it.
Oh, yes, that’s a good way to put it.
dcp - Mar 06, 2022 5:41:58 pm PST #27346 of 27942
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye
For contrast, I did not enjoy Piranesi.
Too much of the first four parts were too much like some of my dreams (and nightmares). It was a real slog to get to the fifth part, where...I guess I want to say, the storytelling was more conventional.
Perhaps I would enjoy it more on re-reading, now that I know how the pieces fit together, but it will take a while before my distaste for the dream/nightmare sensation fades, and I might not get around to it.