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.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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 - Aug 02, 2022 1:10:45 pm PDT #27400 of 28067
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
Jesse - Aug 23, 2022 6:49:48 am PDT #27405 of 28067
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?
Jessica - Aug 23, 2022 3:34:05 pm PDT #27406 of 28067
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I listened to it and thought it was fine but not great? Normally I love fake dating tropes but not when they're 100% dependent on a fifteen-second long conversation the MCs should have had in chapter 4 (but avoid for Plot Reasons until literally the last possible moment).
Jesse - Aug 24, 2022 7:20:20 am PDT #27407 of 28067
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
For sure it's no The Kiss Quotient, if you're looking for a STEM-ish titled romance!
-t - Aug 24, 2022 7:58:32 am PDT #27408 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
This should be helpful for my occasional buying-a-book-because-I-like-the title sprees
sj - Aug 25, 2022 6:45:57 am PDT #27409 of 28067
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I’m at my volunteer job at the library bookstore today. So if anyone is looking for a book for $1 or less, let me know.