The Pairing has me all verklempt. Good stuff. I don’t know if I need a full tour, but I could certainly go for some pastries and cocktails!
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'Out Of Gas'
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 - Aug 12, 2024 6:44:27 pm PDT #28008 of 28087
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Steph L. - Aug 12, 2024 7:07:33 pm PDT #28009 of 28087
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I could certainly go for some pastries and cocktails!
OMG, I want every single pastry in that book.
Jessica - Aug 22, 2024 6:51:16 am PDT #28010 of 28087
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Update: I *do* like the characters. A LOT.
Curious to know when this happened for you because I'm in Bordeaux and...I still don't like them very much. Maybe it's the narrator? I can't tell, but something about this book isn't clicking for me.
-t - Aug 22, 2024 10:14:52 am PDT #28011 of 28087
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It was definitely gradual and slow for me. Trying to see if I can look at the table of contents and remember...ok, it was certainly after Bordeaux. Maybe around San Sebastien? Maybe not until the POV switch? I remember being impatient to get the other side of the story, for sure, but I think I was liking the characters more before that happened.
I was also irritated with some of the line readings early on? And that eventually went away, not sure if I got used to whatever they were doing with them or if they got more like I wanted them to be or what.
A little tempted to listen to it again and see how the experience changes with knowing everyone going in, but I have started re-reading Anne Rice so that's gonna keep me busy for a while (I haven't decided how far I want to go, I stopped with The Body Thief or Memnoch the Devil (I honestly can not figure out if I read Memnoch the Devil or not) the first time around but I'm kind of intrigued by Atlantis)
Jessica - Aug 22, 2024 10:44:22 am PDT #28012 of 28087
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Oooh I've been wanting to do an Anne Rice Vampires reread too, at least up to Body Thief, after seeing the S3 teaser.
Steph L. - Aug 22, 2024 11:34:06 am PDT #28013 of 28087
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Maybe not until the POV switch?
I think it was after the POV switch that I really started liking them.
Jessica - Aug 22, 2024 11:59:08 am PDT #28014 of 28087
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Okay. I really don't want to DNF Casey McQuiston, so I will trust that Kit's POV will eventually make me less irritated with Theo's nepo-baby whining.
-t - Aug 22, 2024 1:06:26 pm PDT #28015 of 28087
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
after seeing the S3 teaser
Yeah, that's pretty much why
-t - Aug 22, 2024 6:48:54 pm PDT #28016 of 28087
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
So, Mercy of the Gods is my listen-while-commuting book right now. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it yet, I can’t tell where it’s going enough to be emotionally prepared for, like, anything, but I definitely like how alien the aliens are. Not just humans in costumes, you know? And I think I just met a particularly intelligent shade of blue, which delights me
dcp - Aug 22, 2024 7:01:12 pm PDT #28017 of 28087
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I definitely like how alien the aliens are.
Have you ever read Startide Rising by David Brin?
In the sequel -- The Uplift War -- the aliens are ever weirder. I really enjoyed those stories, I should re-read them again.