Has anyone here read the Troll Fell series by Katherine Langrish? They have the whole trilogy at my volunteer job and I was thinking of getting them.
But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?
Fred ,'Smile Time'
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."
sj - Oct 06, 2022 10:39:51 am PDT #27456 of 27913
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
-t - Oct 16, 2022 2:05:49 pm PDT #27457 of 27913
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
So, I’m working my way through Josephine Tey and I am up to Daughter of Time and there’s a point early on where Alan Grant (the first time I read these books, as a teenager, I did not even notice that it was the same guy in most of them, that’s how little impression he made on me, but now I can see even the ones he doesn’t appear in are probably part of the Alan Grant Universe) mentions that he had seen Richard of Bordeaux four times in his youth. Josephine Tey wrote Richard of Bordeaux (under a different pen name) after she had written The Man in the Queue (originally published under that same pen name but later republished as Tey) which featured Grant as a mature detective who had been a soldier in WWI so my brain hurts from the continuity wormhole. It is meant, I am sure, as a jokey Easter egg but it’s bothering me!
javachik - Oct 17, 2022 6:51:37 am PDT #27458 of 27913
Our wings are not tired.
Ha! That would bug me too!
Jessica - Oct 18, 2022 9:29:07 am PDT #27459 of 27913
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I am only a handful of chapters into Nona the Ninth and am finding Tamsyn Muir's comment that "this book has a serious case of gender" to be 100% and delightfully accurate.
-t - Oct 18, 2022 10:31:17 am PDT #27460 of 27913
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ha! That is so.
flea - Oct 18, 2022 11:20:22 am PDT #27461 of 27913
information libertarian
For the mystery book club I’m leading, I invite your suggestions of authors/books you’d call “modern classics.” I’m thinking post-2000, authors there’s general consensus that this person will go on the lists for a long time. So far I’m thinking Louise Penny. What else?
Signed, golden age is my natural space
-t - Oct 18, 2022 11:29:48 am PDT #27462 of 27913
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Laura Lippman?
ETA I am currently reading John Dickson Carr after finishing Josephine Tey, so not the best source...
-t - Oct 18, 2022 11:31:25 am PDT #27463 of 27913
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Gillian Flynn? Would you call her stuff mysteries? I think so.
-t - Oct 18, 2022 11:31:56 am PDT #27464 of 27913
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, Richard Osman
Calli - Oct 18, 2022 11:32:37 am PDT #27465 of 27913
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
For the mystery book club I’m leading, I invite your suggestions of authors/books you’d call “modern classics.” I’m thinking post-2000, authors there’s general consensus that this person will go on the lists for a long time. So far I’m thinking Louise Penny. What else?
Tana French, maybe? I don't enjoy her novels but the couple I've read I could see why people were into them.