Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.

'War Stories'


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 07, 2023 4:28:54 pm PST #27546 of 27912
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

Oh, also:

And by interesting I might mean pretty hot.

I know that's right, baby.


-t - Feb 07, 2023 6:44:15 pm PST #27547 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The cover is very creepy and does not get less so after reading. It makes me think of T Kingfisher’s horror novels, although I haven’t gone to look at her covers to see if there is actual resemblance


-t - Feb 07, 2023 8:12:54 pm PST #27548 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The rabbits did make me think of Buffy, as did the vampire arguably with a soul, the hellmouth in the library, the other actual mouth that sent Darlington to hell when it ate him, and the red-headed scholarly witch. Not that I think that was the point if any of that, but it’s fun for me. As is Tripp’s Renfieldish dining habits and the image of Linus/Lionel walking through campus in the shade of a white umbrella carried by his companion. I can’t quite place what that reminds me of, I want to say a comic panel, but it’s charming.


-t - Feb 09, 2023 6:01:06 pm PST #27549 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Dang it. My March magazines appear to have arrived and I haven’t finished January yet. One more entertainment medium I fall behind in


sj - Feb 15, 2023 12:11:47 pm PST #27550 of 27912
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

It’s taking me forever to reread Ninth House because I’m having trouble concentrating on any books right now. However, I want to put my prediction for Hell Bent somewhere, which I’m even more convinced of by being 50% done with my reread. I think Darlington killed his parents I saw a lot of predictions after the first book that he killed his grandfather but that doesn’t quite ring true for me. Anyway, don’t tell me if I’m right or wrong.


Steph L. - Feb 15, 2023 12:16:44 pm PST #27551 of 27912
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

You are either wrong or right! How about that?

I honestly read Hell Bent so quickly that I might need to go back and read it at a more leisurely pace. But I have If We Were Villains from the library, so I'm going to get to that first.


-t - Feb 15, 2023 12:26:54 pm PST #27552 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, man, I do want to talk about all that but I can't think of any way to do it without spoilers, so let us try to remember to discuss the whole business of murderers and who they killed later


Calli - Feb 15, 2023 3:42:25 pm PST #27553 of 27912
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

We’re reading The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley for my book group, and I’m having trouble getting into it. Not sure if it’s the book or me.


bennett - Feb 15, 2023 6:12:10 pm PST #27554 of 27912

Calli - I gave up on The Paris Apartment fairly early. I didn't find any of the characters interesting. And there's so much else out there to read.


sj - Feb 16, 2023 5:11:15 am PST #27555 of 27912
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I read a couple Lucy Foley books last year. I enjoyed the first one and then felt the second one was almost exactly like the first one, which was a disappointment. Same character types etc.