She growls?! You made her so she growls?!

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


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."


aurelia - Dec 01, 2025 4:34:21 pm PST #28493 of 28503
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Really surprised no one came up with #10. I thought I made it easier by using the preface but maybe not.

If I had submitted a guess, that is what I would have guessed. I don't have a copy of that one to check though.

Also, how TF is Richard Osman so prolific?

He's used to churning out content on a tv schedule??


-t - Dec 01, 2025 6:55:31 pm PST #28494 of 28503
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

If I had submitted a guess, that is what I would have guessed.

For some reason I made the leap to the spontaneous human combustion in Bleak House and while I was pretty sure it wasn’t that I couldn’t think of anything else. Even with the movie out.


Calli - Dec 03, 2025 1:48:27 pm PST #28495 of 28503
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I forgot I’d pre-ordered Snake Eater, so it was a nice surprise on the 1st. I think the author has said the southwest US is the place of her heart, and it shows in this book.


-t - Dec 03, 2025 2:07:54 pm PST #28496 of 28503
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

She talks about that in the Acknowledgments, and, yeah, the whole setting-as-a-character thing is strong


-t - Dec 03, 2025 3:34:35 pm PST #28497 of 28503
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Remembered the put-the-kindle-in-airplane-mode trick, maybe I can finish reading the TMC after all...

ETA looks good so far, officially returned but still on the kindle.


-t - Dec 11, 2025 7:56:35 am PST #28498 of 28503
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The Diamond Age is on sale for $1.99, I kinda want to buy it. I read it in paperback when it came out but I am pretty sure I don't have it anymore. I really loved it then, I wonder if I still would now


askye - Dec 14, 2025 4:58:42 pm PST #28499 of 28503
Thrive to spite them

Anyone looking for good audiobooks there is Dungeon Crawler Carl.

If that isn't your thing then look into SoundBooth theater because their narrates are top notch . Especially Jeff Hays. I don't really like audiobooks and I'm listening to my second LitRPG series narrated by him

Soundbooth theater has done Dracula that I haven't listened to but I did buy it's on my list


sj - Dec 15, 2025 7:37:23 am PST #28500 of 28503
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I won an advanced reader copy of a new T Kingfisher novel on Goodreads the other day. I’m so behind on emails that I didn’t even realize it until it arrived in the mail. Now I just need some time to read it.


-t - Dec 15, 2025 8:55:48 am PST #28501 of 28503
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, that's great! Good luck finding time to enjoy it


sj - Dec 15, 2025 8:58:01 am PST #28502 of 28503
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Thanks, -t. Hopefully I will get the last of the Christmas errands done today.