Wesley: We were fighting on opposite sides, but it was the same war. Fred: but you hated her…didn't you? Wesley: It's not always about holding hands.

'Shells'


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 - Dec 20, 2023 8:16:28 am PST #27880 of 28034
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Did you stick with it?

I did not - pretty much abandoned it as soon as I posted that and haven't had any desire to go back. AH has been diminishing returns for me since Rosaline Palmer, more or less. (I did really love Husband Material, but all of his other recent ones have been somewhere on a spectrum from Meh to Nope.)


-t - Dec 20, 2023 8:44:13 am PST #27881 of 28034
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Fair enough. I keep poking at what I did and didn't like about it, for some reason, and having someone else's reactions to consider seems helpful.


Steph L. - Jan 11, 2024 2:42:42 pm PST #27882 of 28034
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Humble Bundle currently has 38 of the Discworld books in its current bundle (for the Kobo reader) for $18 or more: [link] .


Susan W. - Jan 16, 2024 5:36:56 pm PST #27883 of 28034
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

For the Bujold fans, there's a new Penric & Desdemona novella out, called Demon Daughter.


meara - Jan 17, 2024 9:29:35 am PST #27884 of 28034

Thanks for the info Susan, I wouldn’t have known otherwise! I feel like Amazon is shockingly bad at telling me “hey there’s a new book in that series you like” or even having a way to sign up to tell me that.


Jessica - Jan 17, 2024 9:33:14 am PST #27885 of 28034
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I feel like Amazon is shockingly bad at telling me “hey there’s a new book in that series you like” or even having a way to sign up to tell me that.

The team that would have pushed this feature out was laid off exactly one year ago today. (RIP Comixology...)


meara - Jan 17, 2024 9:42:06 am PST #27886 of 28034

Jessica it shocks me that feature hasn’t been available for years! It seems like a no brainer to be able to sign up for notifications on a series or an author. They at one point had notifications for an author but they didn’t really work like they were supposed to.


javachik - Jan 17, 2024 1:41:54 pm PST #27887 of 28034
Our wings are not tired.

I get notifications from Amazon about particular author books by "following" the author.

For example, here's Fran's author page. Click the "follow" button under her name and you'll be notified when her next book is released. [link]


meara - Jan 17, 2024 1:57:06 pm PST #27888 of 28034

I’ve tried that before and it only sometimes worked, weirdly. Or it would only tell me after something was out already, etc. plus there are some authors where I like one series but not others of theirs…


Calli - Jan 17, 2024 2:30:10 pm PST #27889 of 28034
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Meanwhile Amazon frequently sends me emails about books I “might like”, that bear no resemblance to anything I’ve ever bought for myself or others.