Excellent. I decided to start with Becky Chambers.
And we live to fight another day.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
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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."
JenP - Dec 29, 2025 4:23:48 pm PST #28506 of 28558
-t - Dec 29, 2025 4:56:24 pm PST #28507 of 28558
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, those are both so good.
I really did try to think of a different way to word that, but dammit that is what I mean.
Currently reading Someone in Time: Tales of Time-crossed Romance. Short stories, which is convenient for picking up and putting down in between doing actual work, and authors I like, but kind of a lot of emotion to have to shove aside when I have to get back to working sometimes...
Only 6 books out from the library right now, possibly a manageable amount if no more holds become available too soon...
JenP - Dec 29, 2025 5:15:38 pm PST #28508 of 28558
Nice! I decided to try for only three at a time this year if I can manage it. I always found that the holds I thought would take forever came way faster than my reading speed. Though, I do have a fourth on hold right now. I didn't think I'd find all three that I wanted on the shelves tonight.
-t - Dec 29, 2025 5:30:35 pm PST #28509 of 28558
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have no impulse control when it comes to putting books on hold, especially when they tell me I won’t get them for 12 weeks or something. But then they show up anfter only a few days. And my library switched up what happens when your hold does become available but you aren’t ready for it. Used to be able to kind of toss it back and just get back in the queue, now it gets suspended and you have to unsuspend it when you are ready. So I found myself with a bunch of suspended holds hanging over me knowing that if I don’t unsuspend within a year they will just, like, disappear? For some reason that prospect really stresses me out.
JenP - Dec 29, 2025 6:15:36 pm PST #28510 of 28558
Exactly that flavor of stress! So I am trying a new thing this year with just not holding. And also pumping the brakes on my podcast fiction listening. So obsessed! No reading time! So. We shall see.
Jessica - Dec 30, 2025 6:59:39 am PST #28511 of 28558
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Cat Sebastian and Becky Chambers are both excellent winter reads. (I know some readers wish Cat Sebastian would get back to writing books with plots, but I am completely entranced by her crying-and-sweaters era and think she should write a hundred more if she wants.)
JenP - Dec 30, 2025 7:09:35 am PST #28512 of 28558
I will check out Cat Sebastian!
Jessica - Dec 30, 2025 7:27:14 am PST #28513 of 28558
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We Could Be So Good or one of the Cabot novellas is a good place to start for her midcentury era. If you want a slightly more conventional histrom, go for The Queer Principles of Kit Webb (my personal favorite).
-t - Dec 30, 2025 8:40:39 am PST #28514 of 28558
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jess's recs are good ones! BTW, I loved After Hours at Dooryard Books, as expected
JenP - Dec 30, 2025 8:43:30 am PST #28515 of 28558
Thanks for the recs -- always, always love the recs!