I quite liked Priory of the Orange Tree. I knew I could finish it but waited for paperback due to weight. I'd recommend it for having strong female characters and presenting two tender, unexpected gay love stories.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
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."
Katerina Bee - May 09, 2020 8:11:45 pm PDT #25815 of 28367
Herding cats for fun
-t - May 10, 2020 4:55:48 am PDT #25816 of 28367
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
E-book, which is why I apparently had no idea how long it was when I started it. I just finished Part I, so a lot still to go and I still have very little idea what is actually going on - I mean, I'm following the plot, I think, but there are a lot of secrets and mysteries
Pix - May 10, 2020 8:25:57 am PDT #25817 of 28367
The status is NOT quo.
I also just read and loved the latest murderbot! I liked Priory, but I didn't love it for some reason.
Consuela - May 10, 2020 4:41:32 pm PDT #25818 of 28367
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Currently reading The 10,000 doors of January, which is really good and I recommend.
-t - May 10, 2020 4:49:16 pm PDT #25819 of 28367
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, that's so good!
meara - May 10, 2020 5:59:29 pm PDT #25820 of 28367
I want to read murderbot but haven't bought it yet. I got a few pages into the 10,000 doors the other day but couldn't stick to it and ended up pulling out Doomsday Book and re-reading that this weekend. So interesting given the times now.
DebetEsse - May 10, 2020 10:16:43 pm PDT #25821 of 28367
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I read January a couple months ago. Yes, very good book, from a subgenre that's generated a number of good books.
It was one of the books that I had a little trouble with, as I have a hard time enjoying books with harm or threat of harm to children or animals than I did before I had the gumball. There was one of the Hugo nominees that I bounced off HARD because of that, and another that I looked at the warnings and was like "nah."
Pix - May 11, 2020 12:03:45 am PDT #25822 of 28367
The status is NOT quo.
January was my absolute favorite book of 2019.
juliana - May 11, 2020 8:10:53 am PDT #25823 of 28367
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I started Priory, but couldn't focus enough to get into it. I did inhale all of the Murderbot novellas, which was awesome. (I had bounced off of the Raksura books pretty hard, so I took longer than I should have getting into Murderbot.)
I just finished The Traitor Baru Cormorant, which is very good, and I think I really didn't like it. The Masquerade and the effects on people as described is just too... plausible, I guess? And therefore way too disturbing. It sat wrong for a few days afterwards.
I also started Hieroglyphs: The Celestial Conspiracies, which I'm thoroughly enjoying.
-t - May 11, 2020 8:56:17 am PDT #25824 of 28367
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think I see what you mean about Baru Cormorant, juliana. I read it a while back and don't remember specifics, alas, but I do recall having a complex reaction to it. I did read the sequel, not sure if I will read the third one when it comes out.