While there are certainly moments of levity, I don't know that I'd call Ministry of Time a romp. I could see the potential for a screen version getting a little rompier.
Inara: I think she looks adorable. Mal: Yeah, but I never said it.
'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."
aurelia - Apr 03, 2025 6:05:49 pm PDT #28238 of 28247
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
JenP - Apr 03, 2025 6:35:25 pm PDT #28239 of 28247
Oh, I've only read the first page, so I definitley don't have anything besides the cover art and blurbs to go by, which I... heh, heh, heh... judged... to be rompy. That's what I get for, well, you know...
aurelia - Apr 05, 2025 2:17:30 pm PDT #28240 of 28247
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I think I was expecting rompy, or something akin to that based on reviews/blurbs, so I understand.
Another book I totally expected to be a funny romp based on a blurb was Swamplandia! That one was more misleading than the Ministry of Time.
aurelia - Apr 06, 2025 7:56:07 am PDT #28241 of 28247
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Where does this kind of book stand fall on the moral alignment chart? [link]
Looks like there are lots of charts to choose from. [link]
dcp - Apr 06, 2025 8:00:01 am PDT #28242 of 28247
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
You can only stop reading in the middle. The book falls off the stand otherwise.
-t - Apr 06, 2025 12:04:43 pm PDT #28243 of 28247
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don’t have strong feelings about leaving books open face down to mark your place (as long as they are your books) but this seems bad and wrong to me
-t - Apr 06, 2025 1:00:40 pm PDT #28244 of 28247
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hugo finalists: [link]
I’ve already read half the Best Novel finalists and own the other three but haven’t started them yet. So I kind of want to get a membership and vote? Maybe even go? It’s mostly appealing to me as an excuse to visit Seattle which I don’t think I’ve done since our F2F there.
JenP - Apr 06, 2025 2:07:39 pm PDT #28245 of 28247
I've read Alien Clay, and I'm reading Ministry of Time, but that's it. Liked Alien Clay a lot.
-t - Apr 06, 2025 3:25:11 pm PDT #28246 of 28247
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Alien Clay, Service Model, and A Sorceress Comes to Call are the ones I’ve read. I liked all three a lot, and they are very different from one another (even though two of them are Tchaikovsky) so I don’t know how I would choose which to vote for. Would take a lot of thought
bennett - Apr 06, 2025 6:14:08 pm PDT #28247 of 28247
I've read Sorceress and Tainted Cup and loved them both. Need to add the rest of my already long TBR list.