This is a time of celebration, so sit still and be quiet.

Snyder ,'Chosen'


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."

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aurelia - Apr 05, 2025 2:17:30 pm PDT #28240 of 28244
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 28244
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 28244
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 28244
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 28244
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.


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