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.
Glory: Lesson number one, Vampires equal impure! Spike: Damn right I'm impure, I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow!
'Dirty Girls'
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 03, 2023 9:17:01 am PDT #27640 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
amyparker - May 10, 2023 2:50:27 pm PDT #27641 of 27939
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.
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 27939
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 27939
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 27939
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 27939
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
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.
meara - May 16, 2023 7:51:56 am PDT #27646 of 27939
Hahahah Jessica that was one of the ones I was thinking of!!
-t - May 16, 2023 8:24:54 am PDT #27647 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Not hockey related, but meara I think you mentioned Legends and Lattes (possibly in Natter) and it was recommended in one of the book review columns in the May F&SF with the additional note that the audiobook is read by the author who makes his living as an audiobook narrator so they really recommend that
This led to me getting a vanilla soy latte on my way to work and probably eventually to getting the book in some form or other
DavidS - May 16, 2023 9:05:50 am PDT #27648 of 27939
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Seems like there should be a lesbian hockey storyline based on the true story of the US and Canadian women's soccer teams where there have been multiple instances of cross-team marriage.
meara - May 16, 2023 9:08:53 am PDT #27649 of 27939
Lol absolutely, David!! Enemies to lovers….yes.
I think there’s maybe a lesbian one by Sarina Bowen? I know she added a womens hockey team to her men’s hockey universe
t I wasn’t super impressed by legends and lattes but it was soothing and chill, which I appreciated. If I had paid money I might’ve felt it was a little light but I got it from the library.