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?"
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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."
amyparker - Feb 01, 2023 12:09:39 pm PST #27531 of 27918
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.
dcp - Feb 01, 2023 12:27:34 pm PST #27532 of 27918
"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 27918
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 27918
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 27918
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Wait, that's what burgoo actually is?
-t - Feb 01, 2023 2:37:42 pm PST #27536 of 27918
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 27918
"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 27918
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 27918
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.
Steph L. - Feb 03, 2023 6:35:46 am PST #27540 of 27918
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.
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.
I'm annoyed that I have to work when I'd rather be reading Hell Bent.