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.
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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. - Feb 01, 2023 9:19:23 am PST #27530 of 28095
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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."
-t - Feb 02, 2023 7:48:35 pm PST #27538 of 28095
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.
Cashmere - Feb 02, 2023 7:59:33 pm PST #27539 of 28095
Now tagless for your comfort.
I just finished Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell. A follow up to Winter’s Orbit.
Very good scientific fiction. Queer, slow burn romance nestled inside a space opera with neuro modifications, military coups, and intergalactic intrigue. Slow start but fantastic world building and exiting finish.