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
Tara: Do you have any books on robots? Giles: Oh, yes, dozens. There's a lot of research to be done in order to--no, I'm lying. Haven't got squat. I just like watching Xander squirm.
'Get It Done'
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 - Apr 06, 2025 12:04:43 pm PDT #28243 of 28262
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
-t - Apr 06, 2025 1:00:40 pm PDT #28244 of 28262
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 28262
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 28262
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 28262
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 28262
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 28262
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
-t - Apr 12, 2025 3:34:10 pm PDT #28250 of 28262
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I did not realize that a new Jasmine Guillory was out, but Flirting Lessons popped up on my radar and it is lovely. In general, my favorite tends to be whatever I read most recently since they are all so good, but I have a special fondness for these Napa books. I liked Avery well enough as Luke’s BFF in Drunk on Love but as a MC she’s wonderful
DavidS - Apr 12, 2025 4:34:18 pm PDT #28251 of 28262
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I stopped by Borderland Books on my afternoon of errands and started reading the new book by Robert Jackson Bennett (A Drop of Corruption). It sucked me in immediately so I went and got the previous and first book in the series, The Tainted Cup.
Has anybody read his stuff? This is a fantasy world setting with a Sherlock/Watson detective duo.
Bennett really knows what he's doing - as he sets the scene, establishes the world, makes the characters breath and gets his narrative hooks into you.
Goodreads reviews: [link]
Dana - Apr 12, 2025 4:59:07 pm PDT #28252 of 28262
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I have The Tainted Cup waiting on my Kindle after several people raved about it.