Listening to Mercy of the Gods. I'm really enjoying it. The small scale insights into human behavior and nature are well done. The story is cool and hasn't been predictable (to me, anyway), which is fun. And there's some stuff I'd like to find out that really doesn't matter to this particular story, and I'm wondering whether we will in future books. I am happy!
Simon: Captain... why did you come back for us? Mal: You're on my crew. Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back? Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?
'Safe'
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."
JenP - Oct 02, 2024 4:26:16 am PDT #28035 of 28053
-t - Oct 02, 2024 11:07:38 am PDT #28036 of 28053
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, I wasn't sure when I started it that I might have too high expectations since I liked The Expanse so much, and this is a very different, hm, perspective I guess but I really liked it and am looking forward to more. I think there's supposed to be a related novella or something coming out not too long from now but I don't remember where I saw that so it could be wrong.
Oh, I found it, it's already out! As an audiobook, even, although $7 seems like so much more money than $3 for some reason. Livesuit is the title.
JenP - Oct 02, 2024 1:35:54 pm PDT #28037 of 28053
Oh! Cool, thank you - it seems to be included in the free stuff w/ my Audible subscriptions right now, which is awesome. I finished Mercy today.
-t - Oct 02, 2024 4:06:31 pm PDT #28038 of 28053
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Nice! I want to get it for free. $7 is too low to spend a credit on but too high for my knee-jerk "it's only a dollar" (or whatever it actually is). Somebody planned that carefully to disturb my psychic wellbeing.
Pix - Oct 02, 2024 5:05:29 pm PDT #28039 of 28053
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
If anyone is looking for some lovely, fluffy reading, might I suggest the delightful Miss Percy's Guide series by Quenby Olson? The protagonist is a 40-something Regency-era lady who ends up inheriting a dragon egg and develops a gentle romance with the local vicar, and the humor is lovely and cutting and did I mention dragons? My html code isn't working, so here's a link: [link]
-t - Oct 02, 2024 5:13:55 pm PDT #28040 of 28053
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, thanks! I have been eyeing that series and I think kind of already decided I'd probably read it but it's always better to have a personal rec I can trust.
Like I really need to add to my tbr mountain, but somehow I kinda do
JenP - Oct 02, 2024 10:59:27 pm PDT #28041 of 28053
I was wrong about Livesuit being free for me, btw - I had been listening to a free snippet, then I went and downloaded something else novella-length that was free, and I conflated the two. (The free thing is called Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the Children of Time + at least one more in that world author. It's entertaining. But not from the "Children of ..." world. Anyway... free!)
Also, I have Leviathan, and I keep starting and stopping it, so maybe I will commit! I hear from everyone how great the Expanse series is.
Laura - Oct 03, 2024 5:14:14 am PDT #28042 of 28053
Our wings are not tired.
I devoured the Expanse series.
I'm ready for Miss Percy's Guide. Just put it on my Kindle.
-t - Oct 03, 2024 12:58:50 pm PDT #28043 of 28053
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, sorry you didn't get it for free after all, JenP but that does make me feel better. I did decide to spend the $7, btw.
I am semi hooked on Tchaikovsky - I loved Children of Time (there are three) and The Tyrant Philosophers (third one coming out December) but I'm kind of stalled in Shadows of the Apt. I like it but I put down book 8 part way through a while back and haven't picked it up again so clearly I'm not that into it. And it looks like I get Walking to Aldebaran free, also, so I can give that a try. Eta - I also really liked Service Model. Have been considering Alien Clay but haven't committed yet
JenP - Oct 04, 2024 1:33:44 pm PDT #28044 of 28053
Ooh, let me know what you think of it, -t. I have not read/listened to Children of Memory yet! That's exciting. I really liked the first two. I was also eyeing Alien Clay, but I think I'll do Children of Memory first. I... fell asleep in the middle of Aldebaran. I liked it enough to go back. Even though I know the ending now, ha!
OK, I am committing to listening to Leviathan Wakes now... about to hit play.