I want to hear about all the carrots ltc likes!
Same.
Saffron: He's my husband. Mal: Well, who in the damn galaxy ain't?
'Trash'
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."
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."
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!
bennett - Apr 23, 2026 1:26:34 pm PDT #28630 of 28644
I wonder whether anybody actually buys something with a blurb like that. Maybe so, but that's so over-the-top I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole. But then, I feel like that for most blurbs. These days, I'm only buying off recommendations from people I know. And even then, I try to get something from a new author via Libby just to be on the safe side. Mind you, I'm noping out of a lot of books these days.