Tep, you are going to LOVE those books.
We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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."
Pix - Aug 26, 2025 7:57:22 pm PDT #28412 of 28440
The status is NOT quo.
-t - Aug 26, 2025 7:57:43 pm PDT #28413 of 28440
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Woo! Premium quality entertainment in your storage!
-t - Aug 27, 2025 12:44:52 am PDT #28414 of 28440
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The Incandescent is really good. Magical boarding school, mostly from the pov of a teacher and alumna. I am up past my bedtime from needing to finish it.
Consuela - Sep 01, 2025 12:55:03 pm PDT #28415 of 28440
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The Incandescent is really good.
That's the new Emily Tesh, yes? I really liked her last book I read, although I cannot remember the name of it. The one that won the Hugo.
In other news, we read The Scarlet Pimpernel for book club (I listened to one of the multiple Librivox recordings), and I can just tell my sister will have loathed it. It's very overwritten, melodramatic, and tropey. Kinda dumb but also I think the source of a lot of tropes in modern genre fiction.
I am inspired to dig a little bit into the history of spy fiction because I wonder how this fits in...
dcp - Sep 01, 2025 1:08:15 pm PDT #28416 of 28440
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I've never read the book, but I remember liking the movie adaptation with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour.
Consuela - Sep 01, 2025 2:02:23 pm PDT #28417 of 28440
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I remember liking the movie adaptation with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour.
I bet it cut out the worst of the anti-semitism, and the repetition. I don't think I ever saw it, maybe I'll see if it's on Youtube.
Steph L. - Sep 01, 2025 2:25:11 pm PDT #28418 of 28440
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I remember liking the movie adaptation with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour.
That really was delightful.
erikaj - Sep 01, 2025 4:43:59 pm PDT #28419 of 28440
Always Anti-fascist!
My father, in particular, had a thing about that and even quoted from it for years. He used to be fun--kind of annoying fun, but as that guy goes farther and farther away, I'm more inclined to count it. Especially as it makes for a shorter line between him and me, right?
-t - Sep 01, 2025 6:46:14 pm PDT #28420 of 28440
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have heard of a recent retelling called Scarlet that sounded interesting. I forget what its deal is, but I got a sample to remind me to look into it. All I know about the original is that little rhyme (and I know it from the movie which I otherwise do not remember) ending in ”damned elusive Pimpernel”. Always like to see the flowers.
Yes, I think The Incandescent is the latest Tesh. Some Desperate Glory was the Hugo winner, I haven’t read that one yet.
Consuela - Sep 03, 2025 7:47:09 pm PDT #28421 of 28440
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Some Desperate Glory starts kind of predictable, and then goes off in some really interesting directions. I ended up liking it a lot.