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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I’m 2/3rds of the way through my reread now, and I had forgotten a surprising amount of the details of the book. I remember the characters and impressions and the cliffhanger but that was about it.

Well, hi, all. I've got a plan to read 23 books on 2023. Probably laughably few for some of you, but, hey.

I figure reading in here will boost my plan, so I'm going to scour for some recs. That KS in advance!

Right now I'm reading a pretty lackluster book called Dragonfly by Leila Meacham that was gifted to me at Christmas, but I'm almost done, so I'm going to persevere.

The tl;dr - every character is a Mary Sue, and nothing is earned.

I listened to The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson while I was driving back and forth a couple of times at Christmas time. The science was riveting and the mechanations of that world were pretty fascinating to me - the intermingling of academia and commercial endeavors -- though he sometimes got a bit... I dunno, puerile?... with interpersonal stuff. (I don't think I've ever had to spell that word out before. It was hard.)