None of it means a damn thing.

Mal ,'Objects In Space'


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 16, 2023 8:24:54 am PDT #27647 of 27912
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 27912
"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 27912

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.


Jessica - May 16, 2023 9:15:27 am PDT #27650 of 27912
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I wish Sarina Bowen had a character/plot range to match her output volume, but as it stands I can really only take her in very small doses before I feel like I'm reading the same book over and over. (And she needs a new favorite audiobook narrator SO BAD. Teddy Hamilton, you do your one thing very well, but...oy.)


-t - May 16, 2023 11:51:25 am PDT #27651 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah, the reviewer's main points were that L&L was (a) soothing and chill and (b) not exactly like every other urban fantasy novel out there. Which are both pretty good but not enough for me to go out and get it right this minute especially as I currently feel inundated with Too Much to Read...


Calli - May 16, 2023 1:39:24 pm PDT #27652 of 27912
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I enjoyed Legends and Lattes, enough that I preordered the next book by the author. It scratched an itch (cosy high fantasy) that I didn't know I had. So, since I know know that's a thing, I also read You Can't Spell Treason Without Tea, [link] which was ok, but I didn't like it as much as L&L.


meara - May 16, 2023 2:04:19 pm PDT #27653 of 27912

Jess yeah, I wouldn’t recommend bingeing on her books by any means. I never listen to audiobooks though, so had no idea!


-t - May 16, 2023 2:10:01 pm PDT #27654 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I think I got burned by trying a couple of cozy fantasies that had good titles but were not good books (or perhaps it's just the itch they are meant to scratch is not mine, but I did not enjoy them) and now I'm all cautious about anything that looks too whimsical. Which is rough because I generally am infavor of whimsy!


Calli - May 17, 2023 11:54:52 am PDT #27655 of 27912
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Cozy fantasies can get a bit twee, it's true. Cozy mysteries, too, although the body count (older definition) can work to mitigate that.


-t - May 17, 2023 12:58:19 pm PDT #27656 of 27912
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I bought Baking Bad: A Cozy Mystery with Dragons because a negative review complained that it wasn't as "clean" as they expected a cozy to be. I Haven't read it yet, but I feel like books whose target audience are that reviewer are the kind I really don't like.