It's a murder mystery! Death in the Spires. I like it very much.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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."
-t - Apr 18, 2024 1:08:26 pm PDT #27915 of 28290
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Toddson - Apr 18, 2024 1:11:04 pm PDT #27916 of 28290
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Well, I know what I'll be doing this weekend.
Jessica - Apr 19, 2024 12:03:54 pm PDT #27917 of 28290
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have been asked by one of my Books colleagues to plug the Romantasy Deals promotion running this month. So here it is! Romantasy on sale!
Calli - Apr 20, 2024 5:16:00 am PDT #27918 of 28290
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Oooh, I’ll have to see if those intersect with anything on my shopping list.
amyparker - Apr 20, 2024 9:06:02 am PDT #27919 of 28290
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.
Oh, half off on the LoA edition of Le Guin's Hainish stories!
-t - Apr 20, 2024 12:54:07 pm PDT #27920 of 28290
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That caught my eye, too! If that counts as “romantasy” I guess I am for it.
Toddson - Apr 22, 2024 6:01:24 am PDT #27921 of 28290
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Well, I whipped through the K.J. Charles this weekend. Finished it Sunday evening ... leaving me with the rest of the evening/night to fill. It's good - set in Oxford, seven good friends, one of whom is murdered. And the big question is, of course, who and why. I had thought it would be someone else (and I'm not entirely buying the "who"), but it does bring some closure.
bennett - Apr 22, 2024 6:15:51 am PDT #27922 of 28290
I read an ARC of "Death in the Spires" and also have some questions/issues about the who. We only have their word for how the murder went down and, while I get why the others accept it, I'm not sure I do. Or maybe I think it would be more fun if the murder were more planned as a sign of sociopathy. Anyway, I've thought a lot (probably too much) about it since I read it.
-t - Apr 22, 2024 9:20:21 am PDT #27923 of 28290
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Wait, y’all think Jem is wrong about whodunnit? I would like to hear more.
Toddson - Apr 22, 2024 9:28:43 am PDT #27924 of 28290
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm willing to accept it, since we got a confession, But I'd be willing to accept that someone else did it - even a suicide.