sj, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I just wanted to enjoy it much more than I did.
Everyone on This Train is a Suspect sounds great. I read West Heart Kill and it blew me away -- it's meta all the way, and in the best way.
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
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."
Amy - Feb 02, 2024 2:06:01 pm PST #27904 of 28095
Because books.
-t - Feb 02, 2024 2:18:08 pm PST #27905 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, that sounds fun!
sj - Feb 03, 2024 2:57:40 pm PST #27906 of 28095
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I’m almost done with the first Fourth Wing book. Meara, it isn’t really the plotting or such that I’m having a problem with. It’s predictable in places and definitely is derivative of a bunch of other books, but it’s the actual writing itself that is really annoying me. When I read on my kindle I tend to underline particularly fun turns of phrases or just sentences I really enjoy and 80% of the way through this book the only stuff I have underlined are plot points and world building that I expect to be important later, but the use of language itself is just very dull.
Toddson - Feb 13, 2024 8:25:53 am PST #27907 of 28095
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
There's a new T. Kingfisher horror novel out.
sj - Feb 13, 2024 9:40:37 am PST #27908 of 28095
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Oooh, thanks for the reminder, Toddson! I preordered it ages ago. So, it should be waiting for me on my kindle tonight!
Toddson - Feb 16, 2024 9:31:37 am PST #27909 of 28095
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I was reading Ask A Manager and this was mentioned. um ....
EpicTangent - Feb 16, 2024 11:40:26 am PST #27910 of 28095
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
*snerk*
Thanks for the laugh-snort, Todd!
Amy - Feb 16, 2024 11:53:24 am PST #27911 of 28095
Because books.
I am honestly shocked Chuck Tingle didn't write that.
Toddson - Feb 20, 2024 10:35:27 am PST #27912 of 28095
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Not enough sexual innuendo for him.
-t - Mar 30, 2024 6:04:30 pm PDT #27913 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I finally (I say finally, but I don’t actually remember when it came out, maybe not that long ago) read The Bone Harp, a standalone novel from Victoria Goddard that is not connected to the Nine Worlds. It’s described as “A Tale of Elfland”, and those would be Tolkeinesque and particularly Silmarilliony elves, which I wouldn’t have thought I was hungry for but very much enjoyed. Took me a bit to get into it, as new universes often do, but the story is a good one and by the end I was desperately invested in the characters