co-signed on the book rec. Nora's wonderful smart.
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."
hippocampus - Mar 17, 2020 7:53:47 am PDT #25685 of 28597
not your mom's socks.
Cashmere - Mar 17, 2020 11:52:36 am PDT #25686 of 28597
Now tagless for your comfort.
A readers' advisory consultant at work told us that when the world is a garbage fire, two genres of books increase in readership: romance and dystopian fiction.
One, because people want to lose themselves in happy endings, the other, because they want to know it could be worse.
I just got my second $20 amazon gift card for listening to my 3rd romance novel on audible this month.
-t - Mar 17, 2020 11:55:39 am PDT #25687 of 28597
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm finding I gravitate toward murder mysteries lately, some good old-fashioned order-being-established-after-chaos
meara - Mar 17, 2020 12:26:01 pm PDT #25688 of 28597
Yes I'm all about escapist romance and mysteries where the bad guy is caught and all is well in the end!
Cashmere - Mar 17, 2020 12:28:46 pm PDT #25689 of 28597
Now tagless for your comfort.
I haven't been a big mystery reader, but I found a series about a cop in Honolulu who is trying to solve a murder and comes out as gay. The whole series is kind of fun. It's only a little sexy and the mysteries aren't too difficult to figure out but I'm on the fourth book in the series so I like it.
Laura - Mar 17, 2020 12:45:09 pm PDT #25690 of 28597
Our wings are not tired.
I'm nearly finished the first of the Dresden Files series. I don't know what I was expecting, but I am finding it amusing. A plus for me is it having a bunch in the series.
bennett - Mar 17, 2020 12:47:18 pm PDT #25691 of 28597
I had been reading mysteries for the last couple of years to cope with the general mess the world is in. Now I'm reading Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year" and a history of the Spanish Influenza. I find it comforting to know that everything could be way worse.
-t - Mar 17, 2020 12:55:28 pm PDT #25692 of 28597
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What's the series, Cash? Sounds good
Steph L. - Mar 17, 2020 12:57:46 pm PDT #25693 of 28597
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm nearly finished the first of the Dresden Files series. I don't know what I was expecting, but I am finding it amusing. A plus for me is it having a bunch in the series.
Jim Butcher has some writing tics that he never loses throughout the series, but I think the Harry Dresden books start to get really good about book 4 or 5.
Laura - Mar 17, 2020 1:31:23 pm PDT #25694 of 28597
Our wings are not tired.
I think the Harry Dresden books start to get really good about book 4 or 5.
I'm looking forward to going through the whole series. It is solid distraction.