Yay for more Penric!
I finished The Raven Scholar and enjoyed it immensely. If you haven't read it, it's the kind of book you are happy there is more of while you are reading it.
I wanna hurt you, but I can't resist the sinister attraction of your cold and muscular body!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Consuela - Aug 04, 2025 10:11:54 pm PDT #28384 of 28414
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
-t - Aug 05, 2025 8:56:21 am PDT #28385 of 28414
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I very much want more stories in that world
-t - Aug 12, 2025 9:07:43 am PDT #28386 of 28414
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I finished Automatic Noodle the other day, which is a delight, and I don't think it's a spoiler to say it made me really want to try biang biang noodles. I found a place in Alameda that has them on the menu with online ordering, so I have made plans to pick some up and bring them to my folks to try with them. I am ridiculously excited about this!
DavidS - Aug 12, 2025 10:44:39 am PDT #28387 of 28414
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I am ridiculously excited about this!
Book food adventure!
I know Annalee a little bit so I'm always happy when her books find readers.
-t - Aug 12, 2025 12:00:29 pm PDT #28388 of 28414
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've met her, I'm pretty sure, but I don't really know her to talk to. I like her books a lot in general, this one in particular feels very aimed right at me and it does not miss
Calli - Aug 16, 2025 7:35:05 am PDT #28389 of 28414
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I’m reading The Left-handed Book Sellers of London and really enjoying it.
Pix - Aug 16, 2025 8:33:43 am PDT #28390 of 28414
The status is NOT quo.
I recently read Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto, and it was a total delight — set in San Francisco and all about found family. The tea-shop-owning self-proclaimed detective protagonist is based on the author's parents, and although Sutanto wrote that she always worries about playing into Asian stereotypes, she instills such dignity into Vera Wong that I found it utterly charming.
JenP - Aug 16, 2025 9:13:06 am PDT #28391 of 28414
Ooh, that sounds intriguing.
bennett - Aug 16, 2025 9:36:37 am PDT #28392 of 28414
I had a long waitlist for "A Drop of Corruption" on Libby, but I'm finally reading it. Enjoying the setting and the returning characters. I'm not far enough into the mystery to have any idea what's going on.
-t - Aug 16, 2025 11:34:08 am PDT #28393 of 28414
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I LOVE Vera Wong! It was the first Sutanto I read and remains my favorite, although I will pretty much read anything she puts out at this point. I think the second came out this year (VW’s Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man) and maintains everything I enjoyed in the first
Left Handed Booksellers I have looked at so often and not yet read. And look, the audiobook is available from my library now. Can’t have too many audiobooks lying around (note, I have clearly demonstrated that I can have too many audiobooks when they have to be returned on a certain date but I will ignore that for now)
It’s something the way the books I have actually bought get neglected because I need to read the library books that have a deadline first