While there are certainly moments of levity, I don't know that I'd call Ministry of Time a romp. I could see the potential for a screen version getting a little rompier.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
aurelia - Apr 03, 2025 6:05:49 pm PDT #28238 of 28564
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
JenP - Apr 03, 2025 6:35:25 pm PDT #28239 of 28564
Oh, I've only read the first page, so I definitley don't have anything besides the cover art and blurbs to go by, which I... heh, heh, heh... judged... to be rompy. That's what I get for, well, you know...
aurelia - Apr 05, 2025 2:17:30 pm PDT #28240 of 28564
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I think I was expecting rompy, or something akin to that based on reviews/blurbs, so I understand.
Another book I totally expected to be a funny romp based on a blurb was Swamplandia! That one was more misleading than the Ministry of Time.
aurelia - Apr 06, 2025 7:56:07 am PDT #28241 of 28564
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Where does this kind of book stand fall on the moral alignment chart? [link]
Looks like there are lots of charts to choose from. [link]
dcp - Apr 06, 2025 8:00:01 am PDT #28242 of 28564
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
You can only stop reading in the middle. The book falls off the stand otherwise.
-t - Apr 06, 2025 12:04:43 pm PDT #28243 of 28564
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don’t have strong feelings about leaving books open face down to mark your place (as long as they are your books) but this seems bad and wrong to me
-t - Apr 06, 2025 1:00:40 pm PDT #28244 of 28564
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hugo finalists: [link]
I’ve already read half the Best Novel finalists and own the other three but haven’t started them yet. So I kind of want to get a membership and vote? Maybe even go? It’s mostly appealing to me as an excuse to visit Seattle which I don’t think I’ve done since our F2F there.
JenP - Apr 06, 2025 2:07:39 pm PDT #28245 of 28564
I've read Alien Clay, and I'm reading Ministry of Time, but that's it. Liked Alien Clay a lot.
-t - Apr 06, 2025 3:25:11 pm PDT #28246 of 28564
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Alien Clay, Service Model, and A Sorceress Comes to Call are the ones I’ve read. I liked all three a lot, and they are very different from one another (even though two of them are Tchaikovsky) so I don’t know how I would choose which to vote for. Would take a lot of thought
bennett - Apr 06, 2025 6:14:08 pm PDT #28247 of 28564
I've read Sorceress and Tainted Cup and loved them both. Need to add the rest of my already long TBR list.