Ooh, I like that author.
If the apocalypse comes, beep me.
Buffy ,'Selfless'
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."
Dana - Nov 19, 2025 10:33:33 am PST #28470 of 28503
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Jessica - Nov 19, 2025 10:59:55 am PST #28471 of 28503
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Oh, that reminds me! My mom wants another book she can read with Aeryn similar to The Locked Tomb books, and wanted to know how age-inappropriate this one would be. Most sites say "older teen," and Aeryn is 14. I'm fairly permissive about what I let them read, but there's a difference between "I won't stop you from borrowing it from the library" and "I'm going to recommend your grandmother buy this for you so you can read and discuss it together."
(At that age I was sneakily reading Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty porn but I certainly wasn't in a book club about it with my grandmother. )
So, folks who have read it, where does it land on the spice/gore scale?
-t - Nov 19, 2025 11:04:08 am PST #28472 of 28503
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The first 20 pages are pretty tame...
-t - Nov 19, 2025 12:30:08 pm PST #28473 of 28503
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Unrelated to anything: BookBub just pitched me a murder mystery as "Dan Brown meets Murder, She Wrote "
If I just saw the title and cover I would have been interested but with that description...
Note: I have read and enjoyed MSW tie-in novels, they are fine! Dan Brown, though ::shudder::
bennett - Nov 19, 2025 2:44:33 pm PST #28474 of 28503
Half the time I don't recognize the titles BookBub compares the new book to. And they never include enough info about the setting, the characters, what kind of mystery it is ... to help me decide whether to click on the link. Very annoying. And also really not good publicity for the book.
-t - Nov 19, 2025 4:46:07 pm PST #28475 of 28503
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I rarely am tempted by anything that I wasn't already aware of that they send me. I will sometimes take a flyer on something that's exceptionally cheap. This I did like the title enough to wonder what it was about but, ugh
Pix - Nov 20, 2025 6:00:30 pm PST #28476 of 28503
The status is NOT quo.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight SoilRead this when it came out. It was...fine? Not bad, but also nothing I really got into.
megan walker - Nov 27, 2025 10:26:18 am PST #28477 of 28503
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My annual “first lines” challenge is here: [link]
I have faith you all will be able to guess a few of these.
aurelia - Nov 27, 2025 12:19:55 pm PST #28478 of 28503
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Ooooh, I think I'm stumped this year.
Kate P. - Nov 27, 2025 2:45:38 pm PST #28479 of 28503
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I got three! Although someone else had already guessed one of mine. I love this tradition and every year I wonder if there's some way to do some variation on it myself.