I also just read and loved the latest murderbot! I liked Priory, but I didn't love it for some reason.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
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."
Pix - May 10, 2020 8:25:57 am PDT #25817 of 28414
The status is NOT quo.
Consuela - May 10, 2020 4:41:32 pm PDT #25818 of 28414
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 28414
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 28414
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 28414
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 28414
The status is NOT quo.
January was my absolute favorite book of 2019.
juliana - May 11, 2020 8:10:53 am PDT #25823 of 28414
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 28414
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.
Kate P. - May 11, 2020 1:29:33 pm PDT #25825 of 28414
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I started The Fifth Season and got a good way into it before the relentless death (in particular, the death of a child, which happens very close to the beginning of the book) and grief and catastrophe was just too much for me. I keep thinking I'd like to give it another try, but I'm... unlikely... to be ready and willing to subject myself to that anytime soon.
Dana - May 11, 2020 1:45:17 pm PDT #25826 of 28414
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, the series doesn't really get less grim.