There's more than one way to skin a cat. And I happen to know that's factually true.

Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'


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."


Calli - Jun 20, 2022 9:29:00 am PDT #27379 of 27912
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I just finished The Grief of Stones, the third book in The Goblin Emperor universe. I really liked it. I sort of want to sit with the ending for a while before I start some other book.


Pix - Jun 20, 2022 9:43:41 am PDT #27380 of 27912
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Calli, I liked it, too, but the ending seemed so abrupt I honestly thought it was missing a chapter at first.


-t - Jun 20, 2022 10:14:49 am PDT #27381 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I had that feeling also, Pix, but I have decided I like the dangling unresolved threads. The conversations in this book about not trying to find out who what's-his-name in the last book was protecting fed into that. I hope we don't have to wait too long to find out what happens next, though.


meara - Jun 20, 2022 8:04:51 pm PDT #27382 of 27912

I’m on the library wait list for it, but already read the sample. I love it, and also love that a new book probably means more good fic too!


Calli - Jul 14, 2022 8:02:57 am PDT #27383 of 27912
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm partway through What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher's retelling of Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher." I don't read much horror, and this book definitely qualifies. It's really good, and I'm interested in the characters and where she's taking the plot, but gah. Also, I called one of the issues early on, so the horror is compounded by me thinking, "No, no, no, do not touch . . . oh, crap. Well, you're probably screwed now, sorry dude."

Anyway, if you like or are even ok-ish with horror, I'm inclined to recommend the book. If the author doesn't stick the landing I'll probably come back and edit this, but her history on that has been pretty good.


-t - Jul 14, 2022 3:05:29 pm PDT #27384 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I pre-ordered that, but I haven't started it yet because I know how much her other horror creeped me out so I'm trying to figure out a non-scary time to read it. Like, 4 am when I am theoretically trying to go back to sleep probably does not qualify. I know I've read Fall of the House of Usher, and I think I read another retelling of it within the last decade, but I don't know that I remember either one. Poe all blends together in my head. But I had no familiarity at all with the last two retellings she did and I enjoyed those, so I'm sure this will also be fine when I get up the nerve to read it.


Calli - Jul 15, 2022 7:37:56 am PDT #27385 of 27912
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I finished it last night, and it kept me awake a fair bit afterwards. I get insomnia at the drop of a hat, though, so YIMV.

I also reread Poe's story before I started Kingfisher's book. "Fall of the House of Usher" is shorter than I remembered—it probably didn't take me half an hour to read. And it was nice to see the relationship between the two works.


-t - Jul 22, 2022 12:38:41 pm PDT #27386 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I am listening to Mike Schur’s ethics book, is this where we were talking about it? I don’t remember. But the footnotes are done with a little *boop* and then the footnote and a *bip* to show the footnote is over and you are back to the main text. You don’t have the option to skip the footnotes, I suppose, but it’s working fine for me so far.


DebetEsse - Jul 22, 2022 12:46:31 pm PDT #27387 of 27912
Woe to the fucking wicked.

It's not really a book where skipping the footnotes would occur to me. But interesting approach


-t - Jul 22, 2022 1:14:02 pm PDT #27388 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It's really intuitive as you listen. And I wouldn't want to skip the footnotes, so that aspect doesn't trouble me at all.