Excellent. I decided to start with Becky Chambers.
I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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."
JenP - Dec 29, 2025 4:23:48 pm PST #28506 of 28509
-t - Dec 29, 2025 4:56:24 pm PST #28507 of 28509
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 work 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 28509
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 28509
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.