Well, I've never DNF'd an Alexis Hall before but I truly don't think I can make it to end end of his latest. 25% in and I don't care what happens to either MC, and I *hate* the amnesia plot.
Jayne: You wanna go, little man? Wash: Only if it's someplace with candlelight.
'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."
Jessica - Oct 26, 2023 3:15:51 pm PDT #27778 of 28033
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
-t - Oct 30, 2023 2:07:41 pm PDT #27779 of 28033
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Wil Wheaton's narration in this one made me really dislike the main character
Now that I have listened, I see what you mean and I'm grateful to have been warned. One of the things I liked so much about Starter Villain (also narrated by Wheaton) is how the villains are plausibly villainous while our POV character remains likeable and sympathetic even while getting involved in that world. It seems like a hard line to walk
Towards the end of KPS, someone orders delivery of Pad Thai and Tom Kha Gai and since I am super suggestible that's what I'm having for lunch
I started listening to Band Sinister on the way into work today and while I do want to finish listening to it I don't think I can listen to anything that explicit while driving. It feels too public, somehow. Might be time to work through all of Murderbot again to be ready for the next book...
Cashmere - Oct 30, 2023 5:16:42 pm PDT #27780 of 28033
Now tagless for your comfort.
I started listening to Band Sinister on the way into work today and while I do want to finish listening to it I don't think I can listen to anything that explicit while driving
I got over that when I started listening to the Magpie Lord. But I still look around at stoplights.
-t - Oct 30, 2023 6:55:19 pm PDT #27781 of 28033
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It was pulling into the parking lot at work that made me anxious. I think I will just have in the car books and at home books…
Jessica - Oct 30, 2023 7:03:59 pm PDT #27782 of 28033
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I once volunteered to take a separate car to Thanksgiving (with all the food in it and no room for passengers) so I could finish listening to Queer Principles of Kit Webb, so...
Toddson - Oct 31, 2023 5:33:55 am PDT #27783 of 28033
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
One of the things I love about e-books (aside from the fact that I can carry bunches of them without physically straining anything) is that no one can tell what I'm reading. I will check out covers of books on Metro, but don't usually judge and never comment , but I'm more comfortable with a non-obvious book. I did once have someone read over my shoulder when I was still reading hard copy books on public transit and ask me about a plot point, but that's less likely with an e-book.
erikaj - Oct 31, 2023 10:47:43 am PDT #27784 of 28033
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
In a movie(or to keep it on topic) certain kinds of chick lit, that person would be your bestie or a new date. In real life, though, I can see why you might not be into it.
Calli - Oct 31, 2023 12:56:14 pm PDT #27785 of 28033
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I once volunteered to take a separate car to Thanksgiving (with all the food in it and no room for passengers) so I could finish listening to Queer Principles of Kit Webb, so...
Excellent planning!
It's weird. I guess I'm super desensitized about people getting busy in books, so I'll read whatever, wherever (although I would probably keep the audio versions out of public areas, just because my fun isn't everyone else's fun). But I picked up a book on assassinations (I was wondering about the history and after effects thereof after reading about Franz Ferdinand's assassination in Danubia ). And I felt kind of . . . dirty, I guess? Actual, factual violence bothers me a lot more than fictional sexy times.
Toddson - Oct 31, 2023 1:28:38 pm PDT #27786 of 28033
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I had to avoid reading true crime fiction after I started a book that was about the murder/murderer of a girl I knew in college.
Atropa - Nov 01, 2023 3:13:33 pm PDT #27787 of 28033
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I will check out covers of books on Metro, but don't usually judge and never comment , but I'm more comfortable with a non-obvious book
Every time there's a post somewhere extolling the virtues of the classic 70s-80s painted bodice ripper covers and they need to make a return, at least a few of The Kids Today freak out because ewwww, imagine someone looking at you reading a book like that! And then The Old Ones explain about book wrappers you can slip your book into. The Kids Today remain baffled.