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
Wash: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral. Something with imagery. Zoe: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay. Wash: Oh, no, I'm starting to like this poetry idea now. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...
'Shindig'
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 19, 2024 9:05:16 pm PST #28080 of 28093
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
megan walker - Nov 28, 2024 10:10:42 am PST #28081 of 28093
"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 28093
"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 28093
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 28093
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.
Dana - Dec 09, 2024 2:11:40 pm PST #28085 of 28093
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
This has gone around BlueSky in a specific circle, but if you've read Rosemary Kirstein's Steerswoman books and would like to enable her to finish the last two books, she now has a Patreon. Details here:
amyparker - Dec 13, 2024 11:47:33 am PST #28086 of 28093
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.
If you missed the John Scalzi Humble Bundle last time 'round, it's being offered again for the next three days.
There are still two days to pick up the Le Guin bundle, too.
Consuela - Dec 20, 2024 9:35:50 pm PST #28087 of 28093
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm so frustrated by Scalzi. He seems an enormously decent human being, and his fiction just leaves me cold.
As in, I just bought and read Starter Villain, and the premise deserved to be either a short story or a much denser novel. It was meh.
In other news, I read The Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins for book club, and it was great, although felt rather unfinished (she had a stroke 3/4 of the way through writing it and her daughter worked with her on the ending but it's a big shaky).
Currently loaded on the kindle is Countess by Suzan Palumbo. No, I have no idea why I borrowed it from the library. Presumably I saw a rec for it, put it on hold, and now it has shown up on my Kindle. Hope it's good!
-t - Dec 21, 2024 6:35:46 am PST #28088 of 28093
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, that’s too bad. Starter Villain was the first Scalzi that really won me over! I’m still a bit iffy on his oeuvre in general, but that one I just thoroughly enjoyed in an uncomplicated way. I still don’t think I’m going to read Old Man’s War, though.
Calli - Dec 21, 2024 6:52:36 am PST #28089 of 28093
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I liked his Kaiju Preservation Society. Old Man’s War failed to hold me.