Ooh yes the second one in that series is on my holds shelf Teppy! Still several weeks though.
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
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 - Jan 22, 2023 10:02:16 pm PST #27524 of 27917
Steph L. - Jan 28, 2023 9:05:22 am PST #27525 of 27917
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 27917
"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 27917
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 27917
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 27917
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 27917
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.
amyparker - Feb 01, 2023 12:09:39 pm PST #27531 of 27917
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.
I need my local thrift store to be less awesome. (Or to buy another bookcase.) Recent scores include the nearly complete Lymond Chronicles, a signed first edition of The River Cafe Cook Book, and a facsimile copy of the 1931 first edition of The Joy of Cooking. There's a gift inscription on the front leaf, which made me want to give it a home immediately. Connie's first question would have been "Does it have the squirrel recipes?"
dcp - Feb 01, 2023 12:27:34 pm PST #27532 of 27917
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye
"Does it have the squirrel recipes?"
Now I'm curious. Does it?
amyparker - Feb 01, 2023 1:59:49 pm PST #27533 of 27917
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.
It does!