I Ignored the Rogue
The Aunt of a Proper Vixen
Her Kind of Seductress
and my personal favorite:
Never Shake a Highlander
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
amyparker - Oct 20, 2021 5:15:32 pm PDT #27122 of 28343
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
-t - Oct 20, 2021 8:22:31 pm PDT #27123 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm reading the Nov/Dec issue of Asimov's (it actually came out last week which seems way too early in October for the November issue of anything, but so did Ellery Queen do I guess that is just how things are) and just got to On Books which this month is Norman Spinrad. I am ambivalent about Spinrad at best, I really liked Child of Fortune when I read it but most of his otherstuffthatI read on the strength of that didn't like so much and he seems kind of damn-kids-offa-my-lawn as a reviewer, but I did read this one, spending the first half trying to remember if I like Harry Turtledove (I don't think I have an opinion on him, ultimately) and the second half trying to figure out if I really don't like Greg Bear or if I have him confused with some other author I don't like (I googled his bibliography and I am pretty sure one of his books is the one that I really disliked so I think it *is* him i dislike although possibly unfairly, sp figuring thatvout feels like a win!) but in the middle he makes a sweeping statement that there are a lot of deus ex machina endings in SF and fantasy "such dramatic failures even tending to dominate Hugos and Nebulas" and I have no idea what he is talking about. It's very likely that I haven't read enough award nominated/winning stuff to judge. It's also very possible that I would not be bothered by or necessarily notice such "dramatic failures" in the same way as Spinrad. But I thought maybe some of you would have opinions?
In conclusion: The Footman's Bluestocking
Pix - Oct 20, 2021 9:33:59 pm PDT #27124 of 28343
The status is NOT quo.
The Diary of a Naughty Footman
To Strip an Improper Marquess
Toddson - Oct 21, 2021 5:14:40 am PDT #27125 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Is THAT where Chuck Tingle gets his titles?
-t - Oct 21, 2021 7:11:25 am PDT #27126 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The Diary of a Modest Widow
Probably a companion to The Diary of a Naughty Footman. I hope they crossover and give us some of the same events from different viewpoints
Toddson - Oct 21, 2021 7:11:49 am PDT #27127 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Regency Rashamon?
Calli - Oct 21, 2021 8:22:50 am PDT #27128 of 28343
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The first thing I got was: The Fears of a Schoolmistress
Dude, get out of my Zendesk tickets.
-t - Oct 21, 2021 8:56:59 am PDT #27129 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
to Tumble and to Ruin
-t - Oct 21, 2021 9:33:20 am PDT #27130 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
In case any of you are Elizabeth Peters completists - there's a not previously published Amelia Peabody story in the Nov/Dec Ellery Queen
The Princess of Heartache - that sounds like something I might have written as a teen
meara - Oct 25, 2021 4:13:19 pm PDT #27131 of 28343
Was it in matter that someone mentioned the new Penric and Desdemona story? I enjoyed it but not as much as some of the others, it felt very brief and a bit confusing on the “why” theologically