She ain't movin'. Serenity's not movin'.

Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'


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."


Steph L. - May 03, 2022 5:43:42 pm PDT #27368 of 28067
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

But he'll have to count all my unread emails, so I should be safe

Bahahahahahaha!


-t - May 04, 2022 3:44:08 pm PDT #27369 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

it was the fourth of May..."It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that to-night, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

Delightful


Beverly - May 06, 2022 2:04:59 am PDT #27370 of 28067
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

And suddenly, Marge Piercy's poems are relevant again. A Right to Life First published in 1980. I cut my feminist teeth on Piercy, among others, of course. But she was the voice in my head and my heart. I am sorry for the fresh relevance of her words.


Toddson - May 06, 2022 4:56:54 am PDT #27371 of 28067
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

One of my co-workers is reading The Handmaid's Tale and I mentioned that someone had commented it was not meant to be an instruction book.


Calli - May 06, 2022 7:42:49 am PDT #27372 of 28067
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Fans of The Goblin Emperor and Witness for the Dead might be interested in this short story, set in the same universe: [link]


meara - May 06, 2022 8:24:58 am PDT #27373 of 28067

Thanks Calli!!


Consuela - May 09, 2022 10:36:52 pm PDT #27374 of 28067
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Oh indeed, that was a lovely little story.


dcp - May 16, 2022 4:44:54 pm PDT #27375 of 28067
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I just finished copperbadge's latest in the "Shivadhverse" series. [link]

The first work was predictable, but fun.

The second work was a little more twisty, but still fun -- enough that I couldn't wait for the chapter releases, and instead read the still-being-polished draft in Google Docs. I enjoyed it a lot.

Recommended.

Now I think I'm going to go re-read all of Leonard Wibberly's "Duchy of Grand Fenwick" books.


Toddson - Jun 02, 2022 7:52:11 am PDT #27376 of 28067
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I have been having problems with reading new books, so I've gone on a massive re-read of the "In Death" series (out of order, picking them at whim). I suddenly realized something - when Eve wakes up in the morning, Roarke is watching the financial news with the cat on his lap. Sometimes she comes in and he's stretched out on the sofa with the cat on his lap. The REAL mystery - why doesn't he ever seem to have cat hair on his clothes?


Calli - Jun 03, 2022 6:43:05 am PDT #27377 of 28067
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

The REAL mystery - why doesn't he ever seem to have cat hair on his clothes?

That's his SF/mystery/romance hero superpower.