That does sound juicy, Susan.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
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 30, 2023 9:40:28 pm PDT #27600 of 27939
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
-t - Mar 31, 2023 10:01:19 am PDT #27601 of 27939
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 27939
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 27939
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.
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 27939
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 27939
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 27939
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.
Oooh, I'm putting that on my TBR list.
-t - Mar 31, 2023 12:48:23 pm PDT #27607 of 27939
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.
DavidS - Mar 31, 2023 5:35:08 pm PDT #27608 of 27939
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Re: The House With Good Bones, my friend Eleanor at Borderland books is running a Creepy Girl Book Club for women who like disturbing horror.
I got to meet one of the young participants, Rebecca, and she was really fun.
I recommended the early 00s horror movie May by Lucky McKee and when I started to describe it, I said, "It's kind of a riff on the Frankenstein theme about this young woman who's a Vet Tech..."
And she interrupted, "OMG, I'm a Vet Tech!"
Later the conversation turned to the fling I had with my boss when I moved to Boston, and I was talking about her childhood saying, "Apparently in Filipino families it's not unusual for one daughter to obviously be The Favorite and everybody says that part out loud..."
And she said, "OMG, I'm filipino!" That makes her sound a little Valley Girl which she is not. She's tall and pretty with a bit of kauai style and a deadpan snarky humor.
Whenever she comes in we ask her how many castrations she's done that day, usually accompanied with a "snip snip" sound and hand gesture. "So much for the patriarchy" we all agree.
Re: Dark Academia, Eleanor is also a huge fan of this genre and has put up display shelves devoted to it, so I can easily get some recs from her.
Kalshane - Apr 01, 2023 9:02:33 am PDT #27609 of 27939
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I enjoyed City of Brass and that series and I believe the pirate are related somehow. It sounds even more fun!
I just finished The City of Brass a couple weeks ago and immediately bought The Kingdom of Copper and The Empire of Gold, though I haven't had time to read them yet.
I'm apparently in a fantasy con artist space right now because the previous books I read before The City of Brass were The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick and the first two books of The Gentleman Bastards series by Scott Lynch.