I have to always decide what I’m reading next or I lose my momentum.
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."
sj - Dec 10, 2020 3:46:15 pm PST #26346 of 28452
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
meara - Dec 10, 2020 4:22:05 pm PST #26347 of 28452
Yeah, I gave up on kindle unlimited after trying it a couple times, because while I know there's good stuff out there (and semi-frequently am looking at a book and see it's available there), when I would try to find things to read, it was mostly trash. And not the good kind of trash that I enjoy reading, just....bad.
Though now we're getting all those end of year best books lists, so I have been opening a billion tabs on all my devices to remind myself to either buy them or get them at the library.
Amy - Dec 10, 2020 4:33:27 pm PST #26348 of 28452
Because books.
Same, sj. It's easy when I have library books, but when I don't there are Too Many Choices.
Shir - Dec 11, 2020 5:41:50 am PST #26349 of 28452
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
FYI: Next week Meorot SFF conference will take place virtually via live streaming, and there are three live events with authors (in English) that might interest some of you (full disclosure - I am usually part of the organizing committee when the con is happening in the outside world, but this year I haven't done much because my role is to be in touch with the compound supervisors when the conference is taking place in a physical place).
There will a conversation between Seanan McGuire and Keren Landsman on plagues (Thursday, 17/12, 6:00pm Israel time), and a conversation and a Q&A with Karin Lowachee (Thursday, 17/12, 7:00pm and 9:00pm Israel time, respectively).
The website is mostly in Hebrew, but I can help interested parties to buy tickets and access the live stream. A ticket to access everything is minimum 1.55$ (it's a pay-as-you-like system), including access to the conversations in the next 6 months. Let me know if you'd like to watch these events and I'll help.
hippocampus - Dec 11, 2020 2:55:40 pm PST #26350 of 28452
not your mom's socks.
:: waves at shir :: do you know folks from Nova Press? I met a few people in the past few years we might have in common?
Sheryl - Dec 11, 2020 6:02:14 pm PST #26351 of 28452
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Gary just got me the first two Murderbot novellas for Hanukkah. (I had mentioned to him that I put the first one on hold at the library as an ebook)
Shir - Dec 12, 2020 2:38:13 am PST #26352 of 28452
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
:: waves at shir :: do you know folks from Nova Press? I met a few people in the past few years we might have in common?
Yes! Didi is a friend.
hippocampus - Dec 12, 2020 5:33:04 am PST #26353 of 28452
not your mom's socks.
Yes! Didi is a friend.
Didi is lovely.
Shir - Dec 12, 2020 7:23:08 am PST #26354 of 28452
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
That is a very true statement. I'm wondering who else you met there - the ones I know are Didi at Nova, Rani at Graff, and Gili at Utz.
Calli - Dec 12, 2020 8:49:47 am PST #26355 of 28452
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I picked up the first couple of Murderbot novellas on some $1.99 deal ages ago and then promptly went off and read other things. I finally started the first on in November and proved the efficacy of daily deal prices within a couple of weeks as I snapped up and plowed through all of them within weeks. It was rather nice to get caught up in a new world—I had a lot of trouble getting into anything new over the summer and into fall.
I also have The Goblin Emperor in my TBR pile. It sounds like a good thing to unearth over the holidays.