Oh really? I was thinking about getting the audiobook to refresh my memory of Ninth House already, you've just made that more likely
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'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."
-t - Jan 18, 2023 10:43:41 am PST #27521 of 27916
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
sj - Jan 18, 2023 12:04:38 pm PST #27522 of 27916
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I would highly recommend it, -t.
Steph L. - Jan 22, 2023 7:15:51 pm PST #27523 of 27916
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.
I can pick up Ninth House at the library* tomorrow, but while I was waiting, I started reading A Marvellous Light, by Freya Marske. I'm really enjoying it. Plus I know there's a second book already out and a third on the way. I like knowing I have more to look forward to.
*(My therapist's office moved to a house 2 doors down from the library; both of them are diagonally across the street from my dentist; all of them are less than a mile from my house. You'd never think I live in an urban neighborhood 6 miles from downtown Cincinnati, for how much my neighborhood feels like Queer Mayberry.)
meara - Jan 22, 2023 10:02:16 pm PST #27524 of 27916
Ooh yes the second one in that series is on my holds shelf Teppy! Still several weeks though.
Steph L. - Jan 28, 2023 9:05:22 am PST #27525 of 27916
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.
Dang, Ninth House just goes hard right from the start, doesn't it? I can definitely say I was not expecting haruspicy (divination through entrails) (as soon as I read the word "Haruspex," I thought "wait, is that someone who reads the future through entrails?" and WOW, was I ever right), much less divination through the guts of someone *still alive*, in the first chapter. I maybe shouldn't have read that right before bed.
That's a hell of a way to get me hooked for the rest of the book, though.
DavidS - Jan 28, 2023 10:08:31 am PST #27526 of 27916
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That's a hell of a way to get me hooked for the rest of the book, though.
Her pacing is fantastic. It's not always propulsive, but there's constant intrigue that pulls you forward. But she knows how to step on the pedal as she swerves into the big action scenes.
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2023 4:10:02 pm PST #27527 of 27916
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.
I'm halfway though Ninth House and just put the sequel on hold at the library. I really dig it.
-t - Jan 31, 2023 4:41:30 pm PST #27528 of 27916
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just started listening to Ninth House. I had forgotten a lot of detail. And in reading in in print form I don't think I picked up so well on the POV shifts. The two narrators makes that a lot more apparent
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2023 6:22:11 pm PST #27529 of 27916
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.
The audiobook has two narrators? Clever! I did pick up on the POV shifts, but not right away. I had to go back and reread some of the chapters once I realized that.
I started out disliking Darlington, and now I kind of love him. I'm far enough into the book that I know it *wasn't* a portal that got him, but I'm not finished with the book, so I still don't know what it actually *was*.
I really didn't see the whole Alex can share her body with ghosts thing coming. Although I was 100% UNsurprised that she killed those dudes, with or without ghost!Hellie helping. They totally deserved it.
Steph L. - Feb 01, 2023 9:19:23 am PST #27530 of 27916
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.
Oh my god, that was SO GOOD. I think I'm going to have to skip waiting for Hell Bent at the library and just buy the Kindle version today.