Have any of your read Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore?
It was fun, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. It had a great opening and finished strong, but I got a little bored by the quest at a certain point.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
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."
megan walker - Mar 07, 2014 9:50:45 am PST #22118 of 28769
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Kat - Mar 07, 2014 11:05:18 am PST #22119 of 28769
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
megan, I am totally the opposite. I liked the quest and was bored with the bits about TechLove and coding. I do love that Robin Sloan, on his author's blurb, says that he splits his time between San Francisco and the Internet.
megan walker - Mar 07, 2014 11:36:21 am PST #22120 of 28769
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
That's sort of what I meant in that I hated pretty much anything having to do with Google and just didn't like that it went in that direction.
Consuela - Mar 07, 2014 12:52:56 pm PST #22121 of 28769
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I got about 25% of the way into Mr. Penumbra and just put it down. It was a bit too much cool-dude-brogrammer and Manic Pixie Tech Girl for me. Maybe things got better?
I did like the mystery itself, though. If I find an electronic copy at the library I might skim it, but I was listening to it on audiobook, and disliking the narrator of an audiobook is a death knell.
Polter-Cow - Mar 07, 2014 2:59:15 pm PST #22122 of 28769
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yep, that's why I quit The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Also because I had no idea what the fuck was going on.
Gris - Mar 07, 2014 5:03:08 pm PST #22123 of 28769
Hey. New board.
Really? I loved me some Yiddish Policemen's Union.
sj - Mar 07, 2014 5:04:53 pm PST #22124 of 28769
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Really? I loved me some Yiddish Policemen's Union.
Me too.
-t - Mar 07, 2014 5:06:03 pm PST #22125 of 28769
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Probably my favorite Chabon. I didn't listen to the audiobook, though.
Dana - Mar 08, 2014 5:05:15 am PST #22126 of 28769
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I couldn't get into it either.
Kat - Mar 08, 2014 7:53:03 am PST #22127 of 28769
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I liked Yiddish Policeman's Union, but certainly not as much as I liked Kavalier and Clay.
I am test-driving nonfiction for purchase for school. Someone recommended Brain On Fire and I am just OVER the "I got sick" memoirs. Not a genre I love even a little. I don't like memoirs in general, actually. Unless there is some greater significance (like Henrietta Lacks which is beyond just her story).
What I think we will buy so far:
Henrietta Lacks
Devil in the White City (not my choice even a little)
Driving Mr. Alpert
Candyfreak
A Few Seconds of Panic