Sweet! Bought.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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 28344
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 28344
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
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 28344
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 28344
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
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.