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.
We're taking a moment ... and we're done.
Oz ,'Chosen'
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 - Dec 01, 2025 6:55:31 pm PST #28494 of 28497
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Calli - Dec 03, 2025 1:48:27 pm PST #28495 of 28497
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 28497
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 28497
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.