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
Take me, sir. Take me hard.
Zoe ,'War Stories'
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 - 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
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.
megan walker - Dec 01, 2025 12:25:13 pm PST #28484 of 28503
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
And, here are the answers: [link]
Really surprised no one came up with #10. I thought I made it easier by using the preface but maybe not.