My other issue with modern vs historic is I'm more able to suspend disbelief, with historic. Even if I know something isn't quite historically accurate, I don't have the lived experience to say "Oh my god OF COURSE she wouldn't ride in a barouche with him! This story is completely impossible!" or whatever. Whereas in modern stuff I'm like "WHO DOES THAT? Who talks like that?" (though I do remember treasuring Jasmine Guillory's first book the name of which I'm blanking on, because I was so thrilled that it sounded so real, so much like stuff that people I know would actually say or text, when in a new relationship or flirting with someone)
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
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."
meara - Feb 10, 2021 5:08:17 pm PST #26416 of 27939
-t - Feb 10, 2021 5:43:05 pm PST #26417 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, the “who does that?!” factor will take me out of a lot of stories and it makes sense that would be more glaring in contemporary stuff.
Jasmine Guillory’s people are so plausible, I love her books. The Wedding Date? I think that was first. So delicious.
Calli - Feb 11, 2021 4:03:46 am PST #26418 of 27939
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I haven’t dated since the 1990s, so my reaction to unexpected things in contemporary romances is more like, “Huh. I wonder is that’s a thing that happens.” I’m going through a queer historical phase right now (KJ Charles et al), so that’s fun.
Toddson - Feb 11, 2021 6:35:44 am PST #26419 of 27939
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I really enjoy K.J. Charles' books. She's an auto-buy for me.
Jessica - Feb 11, 2021 7:22:10 am PST #26420 of 27939
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
OMG I have been stalking KJC's Twitter for updates on how Subtle Blood is going to the point where Twitter now gives me notifications when she's posted or retweeted something.
Amy - Feb 11, 2021 10:05:16 am PST #26421 of 27939
Because books.
Library hold bonanza: I'm still reading The Once and Future Witches, and I have Things in Jars and The Jane Austen Society here to read next, and my holds of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Murder on Cold Street (the latest Lady Sherlock) are ready to pick up! I can't read this fast anymore. Things in Jars and The Jane Austen Society may have to go back until another time.
Signed, God, I love the library.
-t - Feb 11, 2021 11:01:44 am PST #26422 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hooray library!
I’ll want to know what you think of Addie LaRue. I can’t quite decide whether I want to read it, for some reason.
Pix - Feb 11, 2021 11:57:03 am PST #26423 of 27939
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I loved Addie LaRue, for what it's worth.
-t - Feb 11, 2021 12:20:18 pm PST #26424 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks, Pix, your recs have always been reliable indicators for me
meara - Feb 11, 2021 1:12:23 pm PST #26425 of 27939
t, I read Addie La Rue and while it wasn’t my super best omg book, i enjoyed it (maybe not the very end??) and finished it. Which these days says something.