Lorne: Take care of yourself and ah, make sure fluffy is getting enough love. Gunn: Did he have anything? Fred: No. And who's fluffy? Are you fluffy? Gunn: He called me fluffy? Fred: He said make sure…wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.

'Conviction (1)'


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 - Oct 15, 2024 8:50:28 pm PDT #28052 of 28089
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oooh. I think I’ve already bought them all, but I better check.


JenP - Oct 16, 2024 7:48:22 am PDT #28053 of 28089

Anyone read Alderman's The Future? I'm 20 percent in and enjoying it immensely, even if it's taking me a bit to get the characters un-mixed-up

I have not, but I feel you in the challenge of unmixing characters. I think I used to be better at it.

Today I'm picking up the second Expanse book from the library. Right now I'm listening to a Max Tegmark book on one of his more out there ideas - everything is just one big mathematics construct. I fade in and out of getting his meaning now that he's reached that part of the book. Fun listen, though.


Jessica - Oct 21, 2024 8:50:41 am PDT #28054 of 28089
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

This month's office book club book was God of the Woods. I made it about 40% through (on audio) before I broke down and hit up Reddit for spoilers, which I'm very glad I did because now I don't have to finish it. (There's probably a good book in there somewhere but I got really tired of being introduced to a new POV character every five minutes and then jumping to a different time period to make sure I, the reader, didn't accidentally figure out what was going on.)


JenP - Oct 21, 2024 9:51:58 am PDT #28055 of 28089

That does not sound delightful.

Guess who forgot to pick up her second Expanse book last week? I'll put in hold again -- maybe it's still on site. That'd be nice.


-t - Oct 21, 2024 10:50:14 am PDT #28056 of 28089
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I know I'm supposed to be willing to put in the work to read that kind of confusing stuff to keep my intellectual card but at this point I'm really not. That card probably expired a while ago, honestly.

Unrelatedly, listening to The Duke at Hazard and Swordcrossed back to back has me wishing I was occupying an aristocratic (ish) position I could run away from for a while.


erikaj - Oct 21, 2024 3:23:47 pm PDT #28057 of 28089
Always Anti-fascist!

A truly challenging book doesn't just, you know, twist for the sake of it, though.


-t - Oct 21, 2024 3:27:23 pm PDT #28058 of 28089
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That's true. But can I tell the difference? Maybe, maybe not


Calli - Oct 22, 2024 7:22:53 am PDT #28059 of 28089
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

The sequels to Gideon the Ninth had some complex timeline and POV issues. But the author built up a lot of trust and goodwill in the first book, so I was willing to trust her in the sequels. I doubt I’d do the same with a new-to-me author.


Jessica - Oct 22, 2024 8:19:59 am PDT #28060 of 28089
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

The sequels to Gideon the Ninth had some complex timeline and POV issues. But the author built up a lot of trust and goodwill in the first book, so I was willing to trust her in the sequels. I doubt I’d do the same with a new-to-me author.

With both Harrow and Nona, I LOVED the ride I was on even if I was hopelessly lost for a good chunk of the narrative. And I never felt like I was being deliberately misled for the sake of a twist ending (poor Harrow being at least as confused and frustrated as the reader and she had to actually live through the damn book).


-t - Oct 22, 2024 8:37:17 am PDT #28061 of 28089
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Those somehow did not make me feel like I should be working to try to figure out what was going on, I could just go with it. And you're right, Calli, there is a certain amount of trust involved