It also mentions how that happened!
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'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."
-t - Mar 05, 2023 7:15:07 am PST #27584 of 28701
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Toddson - Mar 06, 2023 12:18:49 pm PST #27585 of 28701
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Don't know if this qualifies as "literary," but there's a book on sale called Girly Drinks. It's about women and booze - making it, drinking it, etc.
Calli - Mar 07, 2023 8:01:27 am PST #27586 of 28701
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I have The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, KJ Charles' latest, on my iPad, but I have to work all day. This is wrong, and I would like to lodge a complaint.
-t - Mar 07, 2023 8:46:44 am PST #27587 of 28701
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Work getting in the way of reading is the worst. Bookblockers.
Toddson - Mar 07, 2023 10:26:48 am PST #27588 of 28701
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Yes, I checked my e-books earlier and there it was! still have to work ... have a zoom call at 2:00 and will have to spend most of tomorrow in a staff meeting.
Cashmere - Mar 11, 2023 11:26:08 am PST #27589 of 28701
Now tagless for your comfort.
I have The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, KJ Charles' latest, on my iPad, but I have to work all day. This is wrong, and I would like to lodge a complaint.
I hope you've been enjoying it. She got a new narrator for the audiobook and it's fantastic!
Calli - Mar 11, 2023 4:12:38 pm PST #27590 of 28701
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I am enjoying it! I’m reading the ebook. For some reason, audio books just don’t do it for me. But I’m glad you’re enjoying the new narrator.
Beverly - Mar 12, 2023 12:33:19 am PST #27591 of 28701
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm gifting myself with the two books in Hoffman's Practical Magic series I don't have. I noticed the black and gold theme all the books seem to have, and I knew my copy of PM wasn't black and gold. So I got it out, and it's blue and lavender with a sort of tree design on the dust jacket. I had googled dust jackets for the book and not seen any that looked like mine. Puzzle solved: in the corner of the dj flap is a price marked in pounds. So, a British import. It's still in like-new condition, having been read twice and then shelved. The dj slipped off the back, and in putting it back I noticed inside the back cover, where I'd never noticed it was a fancy plastic bookmark full of Lindesfarne-esque Celtic designs. It was attached with two little dots of glue that was easily scraped off bookmark and page. So...present from the cosmos, I guess. Pretty!
-t - Mar 13, 2023 8:38:40 pm PDT #27592 of 28701
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Nifty, Bev!
-t - Mar 15, 2023 4:34:37 pm PDT #27593 of 28701
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
meara, I can now confirm that having read Three Men and a Boat does add some to the enjoyment of To Say Nothing of the Dog but it really only comes up a few times. I’m probably in about the best place to be reading TSNotD having spent the last few years wallowing in golden age mysteries with a side of P G Wodehouse and just finishing 3 Men and I think the most necessary book to have read would be Gaudy Night. And even that, CW gives a lot of context for her references.
Anyway, now listening to The Best of Connie Willis because it’s got Firewatch and I do think I’m going to try grouping the Oxford Time Travel stories together and see how that goes. I had assumed I’d read everything in the Best of, most of the titles are familiar even if I couldn’t tell you the plot or premise or whatever, but I just started Death on the Nile and I think it’s actually new to me! So that’s exciting.