For professional reasons, I thank the major donor.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
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."
Jesse - Aug 21, 2014 5:54:03 am PDT #22589 of 28476
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
-t - Aug 21, 2014 6:12:10 am PDT #22590 of 28476
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, hey, thanks for reminding me I need to renew my library card. Maybe I'll take care of that this afternoon.
I might be persuaded to loan out my Skullduggery Pleasant books once I have finished this last one. Maybe. Probably they'll go to my sister's family first, but they are all pretty fast readers...
EpicTangent - Aug 21, 2014 7:58:55 am PDT #22591 of 28476
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Kat, I read The Rook based off recommendations here (Pix, I think?). It is good stuff. Though I feel like I need to read it again, I feel like I missed stuff or like I really wanted to internalize it more, or something. Definitely one of the better hook-you-on-the-first-page concepts.
Gris, I feel more strongly about the employee abuse with Amazon than the author stuff. So I try to avoid them like I try to avoid WalMart (though with less success, I think). With Buffista or Buffista-adjacent authors, I try to go through my local independent book store. Otherwise I try to library unless I feel confident the book is something that I'm going to want to keep.
flea - Aug 21, 2014 8:00:03 am PDT #22592 of 28476
information libertarian
For professional reasons, I thank the major donor.
hee.
Atropa - Aug 21, 2014 9:38:39 am PDT #22593 of 28476
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I am lazy and purchase from Amazon a lot, because we have a Prime membership. And most of the used books I'm buying these days are long out-of-print 70s gothic romances.
Connie Neil - Aug 21, 2014 10:05:34 am PDT #22594 of 28476
brillig
I'm adoring Abe Books for out of print books. That's how I found my raft of Elizabeth Enright books.
EpicTangent - Aug 21, 2014 1:16:39 pm PDT #22595 of 28476
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
For Veronica Mars fans, one of today's Bookbub specials is Veronica Mars: An Original Mystery by Rob Thomas: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line for $1.99.
Steph L. - Aug 21, 2014 1:50:52 pm PDT #22596 of 28476
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
That was a fun book! I liked it more than I hoped I would.
Dana - Aug 21, 2014 3:03:53 pm PDT #22597 of 28476
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Thanks for the tipoff, Epic.
DavidS - Aug 21, 2014 7:06:19 pm PDT #22598 of 28476
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So I'm reading The Magician's Land and enjoying it quite a bit.
It doesn't have the pacing issues of the first two books, and the event in The Magician King which (apparently) caused a lot of women to throw the book across the room gets addressed with a really kickass scene including the line (which I will spoiler font but only really matters if you've read the second book):
"If you see Julia, tell her I'm going fox hunting."
My favorite line (which is only meaningful within the context of this book, so not spoily) is:
"So anyway," Janet said, "that's how I got my new axes."