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.
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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 05, 2025 2:17:30 pm PDT #28240 of 28261
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
aurelia - Apr 06, 2025 7:56:07 am PDT #28241 of 28261
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 28261
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 28261
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 28261
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 28261
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 28261
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 28261
I've read Sorceress and Tainted Cup and loved them both. Need to add the rest of my already long TBR list.
Susan W. - Apr 07, 2025 8:08:41 pm PDT #28248 of 28261
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Dylan and I will be at WorldCon!
This year, when I'm finally eligible to vote for both the Hugos and the Nebulas, is the first year in ages I've barely read any of the finalists already--just A Sorceress Comes to Call. I'm already speed-reading as much of the Nebulas list as I can in order to vote by the end of this month, and I was hoping the Hugo list would overlap a bit more than it does.
-t - Apr 08, 2025 7:07:20 am PDT #28249 of 28261
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Y’all, I am back to being 3 issues behind on all my magazines! I was doing so well for a hot minute there