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.
I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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."
bennett - Nov 19, 2025 2:44:33 pm PST #28474 of 28503
-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.
Dana - Nov 27, 2025 2:59:35 pm PST #28480 of 28503
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Yeah, first time in a while I didn't know any.
-t - Nov 27, 2025 3:29:19 pm PST #28481 of 28503
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don’t know any, but I feel like I may kick myself when some are revealed…
megan walker - Nov 27, 2025 11:50:49 pm PST #28482 of 28503
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I don’t know any, but I feel like I may kick myself when some are revealed…
Yes, probably. There’s definitely a couple more I think are getable. But a few I think aren’t getable at all, including one I know some here have read.
aurelia - Nov 28, 2025 5:24:00 pm PST #28483 of 28503
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I do enjoy going through the previous years and discovering the ones I know now that I didn't know then. For instance, I just finished reading Bel Canto.