You are in for such a treat, Jen!
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
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 - Nov 16, 2024 8:24:32 am PST #28075 of 28094
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jessica - Nov 16, 2024 9:24:41 am PST #28076 of 28094
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
BOBBI DRAPER (Expanse edition), OMG. Love her so much.
I thought the show started out okay and then got really excellent. (And then kind of ended weird because it was only 6 seasons of a 9-book series.)
Laura - Nov 16, 2024 9:55:22 am PST #28077 of 28094
Our wings are not tired.
BOBBI DRAPER (Expanse edition), OMG. Love her so much.
I thought the show started out okay and then got really excellent. (And then kind of ended weird because it was only 6 seasons of a 9-book series.)
All of this. Also, it was heartbreaking to try to explain to the people watching the series with me that there was so much more left unsaid and knowing they were never going to read it.
I may have to read the series again to complete the circle of read/watched/read.
eta: I just looked and Hoopla has the audiobooks. Now on my list as I Hoopla in the car.
amyparker - Nov 16, 2024 3:35:49 pm PST #28078 of 28094
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.
Hi! If you, like me, are always happy to get your mitts on a bunch of Le Guin novels without wrecking your budget, here you go.
The complete Earthsea and Annals of the Western Shore series are there. With the exceptions of The Dispossessed and The Telling, the Hainish Cycle is not included, so you'll have to track down The Left Hand of Darkness and the rest elsewhere.
Jessica - Nov 18, 2024 7:49:02 am PST #28079 of 28094
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I'm listening to The Great Transition which is fantastic - incredibly well written and narrated -- but deeply deeply unsettling in the way good near-future sci-fi books tend to be. Highly recommended for people who wanted New York 2140 to be good. The characters here are SO fully realized and I just want to hug them both so hard.
The climate-related world building is so good I can't tell yet if I'm hoping this book comes true or praying it won't (it's probably both).
-t - Nov 19, 2024 9:05:16 pm PST #28080 of 28094
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Huh. I got hung up on the Nov/Dec 2023 issue of F&SF and thought I was 6 issues behind but apparently it’s only 2. Confusing, but less daunting for catching up
megan walker - Nov 28, 2024 10:10:42 am PST #28081 of 28094
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It’s that time of year literistas—my annual first lines challenge: [link]
No excuses this year. For realz.
megan walker - Nov 30, 2024 9:33:36 am PST #28082 of 28094
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
People have done a great job so far, but there are still a few books left to guess and I know some of you have surely read at least one of them.
Hints are up: [link]
Good luck!
JenP - Dec 01, 2024 6:33:27 am PST #28083 of 28094
Heh, I like the narrator's work on the Expanse series a lot (he does great accents, and he switches character voice well but subtly) -- however, he never looked up how to say EVA suit, because he says "Eva" like the name, instead of pronouncing each letter. There are a LOT of EVA suit references in Cibola Burn. It matters not one little bit, but it's both sort of cute and grating at the same time.
Shallow observation: I'm watching the series, too, and I'm in the "find Mae" story now. Pax is much yummier on my screen than he was in my mind -- for some reason, I had him older and sort of ragged.
Laura - Dec 01, 2024 9:01:47 am PST #28084 of 28094
Our wings are not tired.
I read the books, and watched the series. Now I think I am going to listen to it on my trip north next year.