Oooh, I’ll have to see if those intersect with anything on my shopping list.
Niska: Mr. Reynolds? You died, Mr. Reynolds. Mal: Seemed like the thing to do.
'War Stories'
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."
Calli - Apr 20, 2024 5:16:00 am PDT #27918 of 28095
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
amyparker - Apr 20, 2024 9:06:02 am PDT #27919 of 28095
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Oh, half off on the LoA edition of Le Guin's Hainish stories!
-t - Apr 20, 2024 12:54:07 pm PDT #27920 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That caught my eye, too! If that counts as “romantasy” I guess I am for it.
Toddson - Apr 22, 2024 6:01:24 am PDT #27921 of 28095
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Well, I whipped through the K.J. Charles this weekend. Finished it Sunday evening ... leaving me with the rest of the evening/night to fill. It's good - set in Oxford, seven good friends, one of whom is murdered. And the big question is, of course, who and why. I had thought it would be someone else (and I'm not entirely buying the "who"), but it does bring some closure.
bennett - Apr 22, 2024 6:15:51 am PDT #27922 of 28095
I read an ARC of "Death in the Spires" and also have some questions/issues about the who. We only have their word for how the murder went down and, while I get why the others accept it, I'm not sure I do. Or maybe I think it would be more fun if the murder were more planned as a sign of sociopathy. Anyway, I've thought a lot (probably too much) about it since I read it.
-t - Apr 22, 2024 9:20:21 am PDT #27923 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Wait, y’all think Jem is wrong about whodunnit? I would like to hear more.
Toddson - Apr 22, 2024 9:28:43 am PDT #27924 of 28095
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm willing to accept it, since we got a confession, But I'd be willing to accept that someone else did it - even a suicide.
bennett - Apr 22, 2024 9:44:09 am PDT #27925 of 28095
Oh, I think the one who confessed done it; I'm just not convinced it was unintentional. Or not as unintentional as he confessed (if that makes sense). I just didn't see a lot of guilt or self-reproach prior to the confession. The murderer certainly seemed to be going on with his life just fine.
Mind you, I thought Toby'd realized what a shit he was and how he had no future and killed himself to inflict as much pain as possible on his friends. So I may be over-analyzing.
-t - Apr 22, 2024 10:08:05 am PDT #27926 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, ok. I think that bit where Nicky talks about how training is for thinking and when you fight you don’t think (talking about fencing with Hugo) makes me buy that the killing was spur of the moment followed by panicked trying not to be caught. I prefer impulsive murders to planned, though, in general.
Toby is the hardest character for me to understand, so I’ve been thinking about him a lot. They are all pretty interesting, though.
-t - Apr 22, 2024 10:27:41 am PDT #27927 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I do agree, it doesn’t have that satisfying everything falls into place sort of resolution that I do like in a murder mystery. And now that I am saying that I am reminded of The Eighth Detective and those stories getting reconfigured.
I really liked the way the question of justice vs vengeance vs law is handled.