Mary Shelley said, “I can make him
Heh!
Jimmy Olsen jokes're pretty much gonna be lost on you, huh?
Xander ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
DavidS - Mar 29, 2023 8:25:38 pm PDT #27598 of 28095
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Susan W. - Mar 30, 2023 7:57:59 pm PDT #27599 of 28095
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I just read a book I think would be up a lot of folks' alley: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. Much swashbuckling (SO much swashbuckling), pirates with hearts of gold, a 40-something lady pirate with a bad knee called away from well-earned retirement, all set in a richly developed 12th century Indian Ocean world, and did I mention the swashbuckling?
DavidS - Mar 30, 2023 9:40:28 pm PDT #27600 of 28095
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That does sound juicy, Susan.
-t - Mar 31, 2023 10:01:19 am PDT #27601 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've been eyeing that, Susan - I enjoyed City of Brass and that series and I believe the pirate are related somehow. It sounds even more fun!
-t - Mar 31, 2023 10:13:30 am PDT #27602 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Currently listening to House With Good Bones (Kingfisher horror), which I'm enjoying a lot but realized a little too late in the evening makes very bad right before sleep reading. I mean, I actually realized that pretty early in the evening but did not successfully switch to listening to something else early enough. Specifically, there are vivid descriptions of sleep paralysis and nightmares, both of which I experience so that was gratifying to read but not helpful in getting a good night's rest!
Steph L. - Mar 31, 2023 10:38:21 am PDT #27603 of 28095
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
In my ongoing dark academia binge, I'm reading Bunny, by Mona Awad. It is FUCKED UP, in an utterly delightful, deranged way.
I need to make a Venn diagram of the dark academia books I've read, so I can have categories like "Why Bunnies???" (Hell Bent; Bunny), "Getting Frankenstein-y" (Catherine House; Bunny), "Your School May Actually Be A Cult" (If We Were Villains; Catherine House), and "This Is What Happens When Students Form Cliques" (The World Cannot Give; Ninth House; If We Were Villains).
-t - Mar 31, 2023 10:46:39 am PDT #27604 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, man, I came across a review of something described as Dark Academia that I thought I should tell you about that I don't think was any of those but I forgot the title. Maybe I can find it again...
-t - Mar 31, 2023 10:58:33 am PDT #27605 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think it might have been Saturnallia by Stephanie Feldman?
Steph L. - Mar 31, 2023 11:08:20 am PDT #27606 of 28095
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Oooh, I'm putting that on my TBR list.
-t - Mar 31, 2023 12:48:23 pm PDT #27607 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Another quick note on House With Good Bones - the mother of the POV character is approximately my age and I do not know how to feel about that.