Agree on the Free narration of MurderBot. Very good!
I'm a vision of hotliness, and how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know, if you can stand the horror of a higher power hijacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself, I really recommend 'em.
Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
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."
-t - Sep 15, 2022 7:54:17 pm PDT #27420 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jessica - Sep 16, 2022 9:43:49 am PDT #27421 of 28067
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I can't believe none of you reminded me that Nona the Ninth came out this week.
DavidS - Sep 16, 2022 10:35:35 am PDT #27422 of 28067
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I can't believe none of you reminded me that Nona the Ninth came out this week.
I bought it for a random teenager the other day!
I was at Borderland Books, which has now relocated to Haight Street after being in Mission.
I was talking to book clerk, Eleanor, when two teenage girls came. They were buying the first two books in the trilogy for their book club. One girl asked wistfully if Nona the Ninth was out in paperback. Eleanor said, "Girl! It just dropped in hardback. It's going to be a while before the trade paperback comes out."
The teen sighed wistfully in disappointment. Hardbacks were out of her buying range.
So I bought it for her, which made both of them giddy with glee.
-t - Sep 16, 2022 11:18:32 am PDT #27423 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just realized it yesterday, Jess, and I almost came here to say so but I haven't started reading it yet because I am currently mired in Wodehouse and that transition, I suspect, will be disorienting so talking about the Locked Tomb at all kind of seemed beyond me. I read the cast of characters or whatever it is called at the very beginning and felt like I needed more brain to devote to going any further.
Aw, way to book fairy, Hec! Well done
Steph L. - Sep 16, 2022 11:27:26 am PDT #27424 of 28067
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
talking about the Locked Tomb
At a family party last weekend, our nephew talked up this series to me, and maybe I was looking dubious or something (I wasn't feeling dubious), because he said "Okay, 4 words: lesbian necromancers IN SPACE." I said "Those were the only 4 words I needed."
-t - Sep 16, 2022 11:43:35 am PDT #27425 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I believe that is the primary blurb on the cover of the first book.
meara - Sep 16, 2022 11:47:05 am PDT #27426 of 28067
Yeah I read the first book but it was v much Not my jam somehow. Does the second book change much? Because to me it was more “lesbian necromancers in INSCRUTABLE MYSTERY AND HORRIFICALLY STRUCTURED BUREAUCRACY”?
Jessica - Sep 16, 2022 11:52:33 am PDT #27427 of 28067
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I definitely have to re-listen to the first two to remind myself who everyone is by the time this book starts.
Jessica - Sep 16, 2022 11:55:05 am PDT #27428 of 28067
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
lesbian necromancers in INSCRUTABLE MYSTERY AND HORRIFICALLY STRUCTURED BUREAUCRACY
HAHAHAHAHA
I mean, no, the second book is more of the same and then some. The mystery does, eventually, become scrutable, but it's mostly Harrow's POV and she is unreliable as a narrator at the best of times, and during this book is NOT the best of times for her. So since she doesn't know what's going on, neither do we, until we do.
-t - Sep 16, 2022 11:58:45 am PDT #27429 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
In some ways the second book is very different and in some very much the same. I imagine if you didn't like the first you wouldn't like the second. For some reason I find the persistent WTF IS EVEN GOING ON of it all very pleasing, but if you do not you should probably avoid