Vicarious carrots are the best
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 - Apr 14, 2026 9:39:49 am PDT #28620 of 28644
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
DavidS - Apr 14, 2026 9:48:14 am PDT #28621 of 28644
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I want to hear about all the carrots ltc likes!
Same.
erikaj - Apr 14, 2026 4:52:26 pm PDT #28622 of 28644
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I was like that when I was her age, then everyone decided to Prepare Me For Real Life by taking me down a peg. Sometimes I think they took a few too many pegs. ETA: Ok, so maybe "poise" is a stretch. But I was more confident, which might have become poise.
bennett - Apr 15, 2026 6:41:06 am PDT #28623 of 28644
New EH Lupton is now available - Renaissance.
sj - Apr 16, 2026 8:56:41 am PDT #28624 of 28644
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I’m sorry that happened to you, erika. I will beat up anyone trying to take my kid down a peg.
erikaj - Apr 16, 2026 11:27:14 am PDT #28625 of 28644
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
Yeah, I know. The worst part is that they thought they were helping, probably, and not just random strangers.
erikaj - Apr 16, 2026 1:04:51 pm PDT #28626 of 28644
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
Cheerios: I write about the memoir that people are talking about, here. [link]
askye - Apr 22, 2026 8:13:50 am PDT #28627 of 28644
Thrive to spite them
I have fallen down the MF tomance rabbit hole. I was trying to get out of reading romances for awhile but ended up just switching types. Although I kept reading a few pages and then quitting books because the heroines were all dealing with major misogyny in the first few pages and I don't want to deal with that in my escapism.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 23, 2026 12:05:30 pm PDT #28628 of 28644
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
Why I am distrustful of book rankings on Amazon, Exhibit A:
As fire-breathing unicorn shifter Bailey and her new husband, incubus police chief Quinn, struggle to take care of two orphaned gorgons, all hell breaks loose! A hilarious urban fantasy with over 1,600 five-star ratings on Amazon.
Jessica - Apr 23, 2026 12:50:13 pm PDT #28629 of 28644
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
With a blurb like that they should ALL be five-star ratings!