Has anyone read Hild yet? I couldn't put it down. Compelling.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'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."
Kat - Nov 22, 2013 4:28:31 pm PST #21647 of 28614
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
hippocampus - Nov 22, 2013 4:56:00 pm PST #21648 of 28614
not your mom's socks.
Kat, I am really looking forward to reading Hild.
smonster - Nov 22, 2013 5:27:38 pm PST #21649 of 28614
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I'm hoping to get Hild for Hanukkah! I love Nicola Griffith.
Kat - Nov 22, 2013 7:13:04 pm PST #21650 of 28614
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I have never read any of Nicola Griffith's books before. Does she normally write historical fiction?
Cass - Nov 22, 2013 7:18:24 pm PST #21651 of 28614
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I've not read her before. I searched but didn't come up with any previous historical fiction.
Kat - Nov 23, 2013 4:03:07 am PST #21652 of 28614
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Nope, she doesn't (I too looked). Hild is technically, I guess, historical fiction but also a mix Game of Thrones going. How this reviews starts is crap which means her central argument is crap, but the book is lovely and compelling in the best way.
smonster - Nov 23, 2013 7:09:53 pm PST #21653 of 28614
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
She has written sci fi and, um, kind of hard-boiled badass lesbian fiction? The Blue Place is the latter and has a couple of sequels. Compelling and engrossing, definitely. She's been talking about Hild on fb through the whole writing process. Her partner, Kelly Eskridge, is also a writer. I've only read Solitaire by her, but I quite enjoyed it.
Amy - Nov 26, 2013 12:21:01 pm PST #21654 of 28614
Because books.
Finally started The Book Thief, and I absolutely love it.
Polter-Cow - Nov 26, 2013 12:27:00 pm PST #21655 of 28614
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I believe you will maintain that feeling throughout.
Amy - Nov 26, 2013 12:34:37 pm PST #21656 of 28614
Because books.
I believe you. I can't put it down, and I'm only a quarter of the way through it.