Ha! That would bug me too!
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
javachik - Oct 17, 2022 6:51:37 am PDT #27458 of 28476
Our wings are not tired.
Jessica - Oct 18, 2022 9:29:07 am PDT #27459 of 28476
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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 28476
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 28476
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 28476
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 28476
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 28476
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 28476
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.
-t - Oct 18, 2022 11:34:07 am PDT #27466 of 28476
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
And I really like Gigi Pandian but I don't know what her reputation is outside of my personal taste. Pretty good I would guess, but not sure about modern classic. But should be, in my opinion.
DavidS - Oct 18, 2022 12:31:35 pm PDT #27467 of 28476
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Tara French and Gillian Flynn are the two I thought of.