You like ships. You don't seem to be looking at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest.

Kaylee ,'Serenity'


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."


Steph L. - Jan 31, 2023 6:22:11 pm PST #27529 of 27933
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 27933
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 27933
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 27933
"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 27933
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.

It does!


Toddson - Feb 01, 2023 2:03:01 pm PST #27534 of 27933
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 27933
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Wait, that's what burgoo actually is?


-t - Feb 01, 2023 2:37:42 pm PST #27536 of 27933
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 27933
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

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."


-t - Feb 02, 2023 7:48:35 pm PST #27538 of 27933
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

So, reading Ninth House again with the knowledge gained in Hell Bent as well as the end of Ninth House is pretty fun. Lot of detail to pick up on.