Suela, that sounds like the perfect bookstore!
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down? Mal: I won't. Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster. Mal: I'll take that as a kindness.
'Trash'
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."
Steph L. - Jan 20, 2025 7:20:11 am PST #28150 of 28200
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Pix - Jan 20, 2025 11:39:44 am PST #28151 of 28200
The status is NOT quo.
Thanks for the rec for "The Teller of Small Fortunes" — I loved it! I followed it with "The House of Frank," by Kay Synclaire, and it's just lovely. It centers on a woman mourning the loss of her sister, but it's a fairy tale world that will give you hope in the best way. Sad in parts since it's about grief, but hopeful, too. I then read "The Spellshop" by Sarah Beth Durst, which is fluff, but a warm hug of fluff. Nice comfort read. I read "Frogkisser!" by Garth Nix last week, and that one was also fun and comforting. I then completely changed my focus by starting "James" (the retelling of Huck Finn) by Percival Everett. It's the opposite of comforting, but it's very good.
DavidS - Jan 20, 2025 1:00:58 pm PST #28152 of 28200
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I hit up a great used-book store today: they have a BAR. And the books are shelved in chronological order by subject, so you have a novel about Ancient Rome next to the Aenied.
What bookstore where?!
-t - Jan 20, 2025 1:30:25 pm PST #28153 of 28200
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Not Consuela so not sure this is right, but I found [link] on yelp
DavidS - Jan 20, 2025 1:44:32 pm PST #28154 of 28200
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Not Consuela so not sure this is right, but I found [link] on yelp
Cool beans!
DavidS - Jan 20, 2025 1:58:36 pm PST #28155 of 28200
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Huh - apparently it's a trend locally (and elsewhere I expect): [link]
Tom Scola - Jan 20, 2025 2:20:15 pm PST #28156 of 28200
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
One recently opened up near me, which I haven’t been to yet.
-t - Jan 20, 2025 2:58:28 pm PST #28157 of 28200
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
They all sound so nice! I hope it’s one of those trends that catches on and spreads.
Consuela - Jan 20, 2025 9:16:25 pm PST #28158 of 28200
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
. What bookstore where?!
Clio's on Grand at Perkins. But apparently there's also a new place in Berkeley in Elmwood...
Susan W. - Jan 20, 2025 9:46:16 pm PST #28159 of 28200
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'm always excited to see people getting introduced to Bujold, and I think the World of the Five Gods series is a great starting point. FWIW, I regularly re-read the Vorkosigan books from Memory onward, especially Komarr, A Civil Campaign, and Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, but rarely revisit the earlier parts of the series. Which I think just shows I'm more into space mystery, space comedy of manners, and space romantic romp than space opera.
I'm unusual in that I love the Sharing Knife series as much or more as anything else she's written--something about it just pushes everyone of my readerly buttons in all the right places.