I love Bellwether a lot. Good stuff.
Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'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."
-t - May 02, 2023 4:11:51 pm PDT #27636 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Toddson - May 03, 2023 5:23:30 am PDT #27637 of 28095
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
There was also a shorter piece, The Moon Blues, which I remember enjoying although a lot of the details are a blur at this point.
-t - May 03, 2023 7:52:17 am PDT #27638 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Blued Moon? I just read that, it’s in the Firewatch collection. Pretty cute
Toddson - May 03, 2023 8:13:45 am PDT #27639 of 28095
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Thanks ... it's been quite a while since I read it, so I wasn't clear on the title.
She also had a collection of Christmas themed stories, one of which was All Seated on the Ground (about aliens). Not terribly communicative aliens, but cleared up in the end.
-t - May 03, 2023 9:17:01 am PDT #27640 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't think I've read all her Christmas stories, and given my fondness for Xmas murder mysteries I might have to get the collection. All Seated on the Ground is in the "Best of " and works well as an audiobook, fwiw.
amyparker - May 10, 2023 2:50:27 pm PDT #27641 of 28095
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Today's awesome thrift store find: the complete Dark Is Rising sequence, in the first edition of the Collier paperbacks, for $7.50. If anyone needs me, I will be over here on the sofa hiding from the Orb.
(This store needs to stop having wonderful things for very cheap, as I need another bag for my yarn stash. I can't think of anything to do with a skein of black lace weight mohair/silk, aside from occasionally petting it. For a dollar, it's more than earned its spot.)
-t - May 10, 2023 3:26:12 pm PDT #27642 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
You could make lace? But petting it is sufficient. Congrats on the Dark is Rising find, that's great! That's one of those series that I read as a kid and I feel like I remember them but I'm sure I don't really, but I certainly remember liking it.
Calli - May 11, 2023 4:57:36 am PDT #27643 of 28095
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I remember discovering The Dark is Rising series as a kid. It was my introduction to urban (well, countryside, as I started with The Grey King, but still, contemporary) fantasy. Magic and telephones sharing the same space? Amazing! It set me up nicely for DeLint, Emma Bull, and so forth.
meara - May 12, 2023 10:21:51 am PDT #27644 of 28095
I have been dragged into HockeyBookTok on TikTok (the Seattle Kraken are being very obliging of BookTok and it's hilarious), does anyone have any recommendations for straight hockey romance? Somehow I can find (and have already read) a whole lot of gay hockey romance, but other than Sarina Bowen, am not sure where the straight ones are. (Or lesbian, I would LOVE lesbian ones, but am only aware of one or two)
Jessica - May 16, 2023 7:26:54 am PDT #27645 of 28095
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Or lesbian, I would LOVE lesbian ones, but am only aware of one or two
Oh man, SAME. I read this one and it was so dull and passionless I gave up on this author completely, and I haven't been able to find more.