And then thinking about reading stuff published in the 40s (by which I mean murder mysteries, mostly) would have been like that for my mother and that kind of made my head explode.
Yes, exactly!
Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.
'Beneath You'
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."
Calli - Mar 09, 2026 5:17:11 am PDT #28588 of 28611
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
bennett - Mar 09, 2026 1:22:03 pm PDT #28589 of 28611
I tend to have a hard time with "historicals" that are in my lifetime - "Endeavour", the Inspector Morse prequel, and "Prime Suspect: Tennison". My brain doesn't accept that they're historicals.
Having said that, I totally fell in love with "After Hours at Dooryard Books". And "Hither Page" and "Missing Page" are set early enough that I don't have issues.
-t - Mar 09, 2026 2:48:47 pm PDT #28590 of 28611
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I totally fell in love with "After Hours at Dooryard Books". And "Hither Page" and "Missing Page"
IJWTS, quite aside from the books which I do like on their own merits, these are such good titles. This is probably not really a spoiler but when they plant a lilac in the Dooryard, uh, yard I was overcome at the perfection
-t - Mar 10, 2026 4:11:37 pm PDT #28591 of 28611
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Star Shipped, Hell's Heart, and Nobody's Baby all just came off hold. This is making it very hard to start my actual book club book! What have I done to myself
bennett - Mar 10, 2026 4:49:41 pm PDT #28592 of 28611
Surely the bookclub will understand. Paarticularly if they are library books that have immediate deadlines.
-t - Mar 10, 2026 9:40:09 pm PDT #28593 of 28611
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I read the first chapter! We aren’t actually going to start discussing it until next week, I can do a little every day in between binge-reading the library books…yeah, that’s the ticket
bennett - Mar 12, 2026 6:51:10 am PDT #28594 of 28611
NYTimes article on Cat Sebastian - "She’s written another contemporary romance in the “Star Shipped” universe and is already planning the next “Dooryard Books” installment".
-t - Mar 12, 2026 7:00:41 am PDT #28595 of 28611
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, nice!
kat - Mar 13, 2026 11:38:21 am PDT #28596 of 28611
"The thing about dorks is we stick together. Mostly for gaming purposes but also because it wards off jocks, gutter clowns and other Stephen King-like threats." - Lauren Okie
I was listening to Cat Sebastian on the Fated Mates podcast and she was so great. I've been reading her books out of order because whatever comes up on libby when it comes up is what I'm reading.
-t - Mar 15, 2026 1:40:11 pm PDT #28597 of 28611
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Calling in sick Thursday and Friday has done wonders for my catching up on library loans! Haven’t made any further progress on the book club book, but very happy with Nobody’s Baby and Star Shipped. Simon is such a perfect woobie and the discord bits are spot on. Only a few pages into Hell’s Heart but I am very into it already
Unrelatedly, but I am including it so I can consider it more fully later, had the thought that the Golden Age of Detective Fiction was recapitulated by the rise of Cyberpunk. I don’t know what to with that thought so I am leaving it here to revisit.