I'll investigate that one, -t. I do like a series. Maybe I'll recommend it for the book club!
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Laura - Jul 22, 2022 2:59:45 pm PDT #27395 of 28067
Our wings are not tired.
meara - Jul 22, 2022 6:54:08 pm PDT #27396 of 28067
I do love some mysteries that are not modern!
Cashmere - Jul 23, 2022 9:50:45 pm PDT #27397 of 28067
Now tagless for your comfort.
Laura, Anne LeBastille? My old boss at The Nature Conservancy used to vacation in the Adirondacks and gave me a signed copy. I felt pretty much the same.
Laura - Jul 24, 2022 5:48:49 am PDT #27398 of 28067
Our wings are not tired.
Oh yeah, Cash. Her high opinion of herself kind of overshadows her accomplishments. I guess the locals don't care much for her either. I'll be interested to see what the consensus of opinion is tomorrow at the meeting. My sister hasn't opened it yet! I told her to read the jacket cover.
Calli - Aug 02, 2022 12:51:38 pm PDT #27399 of 28067
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I just finished Psalm for the Wildbuilt, and I immediately put a hold on the sequel at the library. It's great to read a book that I found gripping—I very much wanted to see how it ended—with such an underlying thread of kindness.
meara - Aug 02, 2022 1:10:45 pm PDT #27400 of 28067
Calli, I found somewhere (off tiktok?) a list of …I dont remember what they called them—calm books? Comfort books? Cottage core? Anyway. Books like that. Many of them were ones I’d already read and loved, but a few I was able to download. I’ve really been appreciating that kind of book lately. I highly recommend Celia Lake, but I don’t know that any of her books are library ones, sadly. I gave in and bought each of them eventually! Magical England in the post WW1 era, mostly.
Calli - Aug 02, 2022 1:33:54 pm PDT #27401 of 28067
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Thank you, meara. I'll check Celia Lake out.
-t - Aug 03, 2022 1:19:52 pm PDT #27402 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
OK, I have to share. I have discovered a series that essentially has Bertie Wooster solving locked room mysteries and it is thoroughly delightful. I am hearing most of the dialog and narrative description in Hugh Laurie's voice. So fun. I am sure the concept is not for everyone, but if that description sounds appealing to you, you will probably enjoy the actual books - the first one is The Case of the Canterfell Codicil.
Consuela - Aug 03, 2022 8:52:27 pm PDT #27403 of 28067
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
For comfort books, I really enjoy Jenny Colgan's romances. They're mostly set in ridiculously cute small towns in the UK, where a girl from the city shows up and opens a bookstore or bakery or something, and falls in love with some unrealistically-chill local dude. The nice thing is that the books do deal with mental health and poverty, and have gay and multi-racial characters. I really like them.
Finished my reread of Gaudy Night for book club. I enjoyed it, but it is seriously classist, y'all. None more classist. I highlighted several sections with the note "yikes!"
-t - Aug 15, 2022 3:04:29 pm PDT #27404 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I’m listening to My Man Jeeves and Reggie Pepper (who I guess is an early prototype of Bertie Wooster) just used the expression “streets ahead”
I’m a little shook