Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark is free for non-UK people. [link]
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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 - Nov 11, 2024 4:18:51 pm PST #28062 of 28093
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Jessica - Nov 12, 2024 6:38:37 am PST #28063 of 28093
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Am I about to DNF a 2nd work book club book in a row? We are reading The Hollow Kingdom and....ugh! Everything this book is trying to do I can think of another book that does that thing better.
POV animals and they're on a quest - Watership Down
Random poetic essays about the meaning of life - Space Opera/Space Oddity
Zombie dystopia - okay this one admittedly stumps me because I don't really do zombies, but enough people have recommended Feed I'm gonna say that one
So on the one hand I don't want to finish it but on the other hand I don't want to be the person who noped out of two books in a row either.
Dana - Nov 12, 2024 12:42:47 pm PST #28064 of 28093
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I vote you just reread Watership Down.
bennett - Nov 12, 2024 12:48:07 pm PST #28065 of 28093
I second Dana. Watership Downs is one my comfort reads.
Jessica - Nov 12, 2024 1:11:29 pm PST #28066 of 28093
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Rereading Watership Down is always a good choice (even if I could probably recite most of it from memory!)
-t - Nov 12, 2024 7:11:44 pm PST #28067 of 28093
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I remember liking World War Z
JenP - Nov 15, 2024 12:35:44 pm PST #28068 of 28093
OK! Starting my listen of Abaddon's Gate -- just finished Caliban's War. Thoroughly enjoying!
For those who watched -- what did you think of books v. series? I only saw part of S1, and I'm thinking of revisiting eventually.
dcp - Nov 15, 2024 12:41:46 pm PST #28069 of 28093
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Still haven't read the books. I already have shelves of physical books, lots of Kindle books, and folders of fanfic that I sadly realize I am never going to be able to read through. Oh, well.
In season one of the TV series, they had me hooked at the sparrow in low gravity.
-t - Nov 15, 2024 12:53:13 pm PST #28070 of 28093
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I watched part of season 1 before reading any books, and then read all the books as fast as possible and watched the show as it came out. I might actually have an outstanding short story that if I don't read it it isn't over. They are both great, the show is an excellent adaptation.
Dana - Nov 15, 2024 1:17:15 pm PST #28071 of 28093
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I watched the show and then read all the books. I think the show is excellent. Except for the occasional presence of Thomas Jane.