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
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
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 31, 2023 4:41:30 pm PST #27528 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2023 6:22:11 pm PST #27529 of 28095
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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 28095
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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 28095
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
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 28095
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
"Does it have the squirrel recipes?"
Now I'm curious. Does it?
amyparker - Feb 01, 2023 1:59:49 pm PST #27533 of 28095
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
It does!
Toddson - Feb 01, 2023 2:03:01 pm PST #27534 of 28095
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
My sister at one point developed a passion for burgoo (squirrel stew). I think she ended up using a substitute for the squirrel,
And this struck me as something to appeal to the Buffistas.
DebetEsse - Feb 01, 2023 2:27:19 pm PST #27535 of 28095
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Wait, that's what burgoo actually is?
-t - Feb 01, 2023 2:37:42 pm PST #27536 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That does look fun, Toddson!
Excellent find, parker!
dcp - Feb 01, 2023 3:05:26 pm PST #27537 of 28095
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Wait, that's what burgoo actually is?
Eh, it's a thick stew, but the recipe is highly variable.
To quote Justin Wilson: "What you put in? Whatever you got."