I do love some mysteries that are not modern!
You turn on any of my crew, you turn on me.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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."
meara - Jul 22, 2022 6:54:08 pm PDT #27396 of 28374
Cashmere - Jul 23, 2022 9:50:45 pm PDT #27397 of 28374
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 28374
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 28374
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 28374
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 28374
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 28374
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 28374
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 28374
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
Jesse - Aug 23, 2022 6:49:48 am PDT #27405 of 28374
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm reading The Love Hypothesis, which I had heard so many raves about but am not loving, and I just read that the author is a big Reylo writer, which honestly makes everything add up! I had turned around on the book a little halfway through, but now I'm back to ugh, I guess.
Anyone else read it?