Finally read Hemlock & Silver, really liked it. I am trying to remember why the Red Feather Saga sounds familiar but not certain that it really does or if it is just vaguely like some completely different thing. Google (that is to say DuckDuckGo) is not helping me at all. Does it ring any bells for anyone else?
Willow: You know what they say. The bigger they are... Anya: The faster they stomp you into nothin'.
'The Killer In Me'
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 - Sep 21, 2025 8:27:20 pm PDT #28447 of 28455
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
-t - Sep 24, 2025 8:10:34 am PDT #28448 of 28455
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I am 3rd in the hold line at the library for All of Us Murderers, woohoo! I think I probably pre-ordered it but checking through all my book-buying sources to confirm that is more than I wanna do right now. But the library is getting a copy and at least two other people want to read it, so yay!
Ooh, and there's a sample of A Philosophy of Thieves although I can't put that one on hold yet
::vibrates with excitement::
-t - Sep 27, 2025 12:37:23 pm PDT #28449 of 28455
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Have finally read The Devotion of Suspect X (I’m not sure why I say finally - I do feel like I have been trying to read it for a long time but I could not tell you what was getting in my way) and it is astonishingly good. Holmes/Moriarty vibes but entirely different, mildly reminiscent of The Hollow (maybe only in my head). The mystery is innovative but the characters all stay relatable human. I can see why it won so many awards.
I have Malice to read soon, very interested to see if it’s at all similar
JenP - Sep 27, 2025 3:19:52 pm PDT #28450 of 28455
I have fallen way out of my reading habit for a couple of months now. Maybe a good mystery will get me back! I'll see if I can get my hands on it.
ETA: Requested!
Dana - Oct 01, 2025 10:18:01 am PDT #28451 of 28455
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Just finished Lone Women by Victor LaValle, if anyone is looking for an excellent horror-ish Western about a Black woman homesteader in Montana.
-t - Oct 01, 2025 12:14:25 pm PDT #28452 of 28455
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That sounds good. And available through my shiny new library card from across the bridge, so that will break that in nicely
DebetEsse - Oct 23, 2025 11:14:54 am PDT #28453 of 28455
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Tomb of Dragons finally came in at my library. I don't know that I will die grumpy about Iäna, but this is very much a Fanfic To The Rescue situation, and, bless fandom, there are some authors handling it, rather than just saying "we're ignoring this"
Apart from that, I really enjoyed it, even if the vocabulary continues to just slide off my brain
meara - Oct 24, 2025 9:40:32 am PDT #28454 of 28455
If you have fanfic recs, will take them…(heck, will take them in general not just for this situation—I generally only read recs or Yuletide!)
Consuela - Oct 24, 2025 4:33:30 pm PDT #28455 of 28455
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
meara, I have some GE stories bookmarked here, although only a few are about Celehar. There are quite a lot of good Celehar stories on AO3, though.