Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.

'Dirty Girls'


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."

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-t - Sep 24, 2025 8:10:34 am PDT #28448 of 28452
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I am 3rd in the hold line at the library for All of Us Murderers, woohoo! I think I probably pre-ordered it but checking through all my book-buying sources to confirm that is more than I wanna do right now. But the library is getting a copy and at least two other people want to read it, so yay!

Ooh, and there's a sample of A Philosophy of Thieves although I can't put that one on hold yet

::vibrates with excitement::


-t - Sep 27, 2025 12:37:23 pm PDT #28449 of 28452
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Have finally read The Devotion of Suspect X (I’m not sure why I say finally - I do feel like I have been trying to read it for a long time but I could not tell you what was getting in my way) and it is astonishingly good. Holmes/Moriarty vibes but entirely different, mildly reminiscent of The Hollow (maybe only in my head). The mystery is innovative but the characters all stay relatable human. I can see why it won so many awards.

I have Malice to read soon, very interested to see if it’s at all similar


JenP - Sep 27, 2025 3:19:52 pm PDT #28450 of 28452

I have fallen way out of my reading habit for a couple of months now. Maybe a good mystery will get me back! I'll see if I can get my hands on it.

ETA: Requested!


Dana - Oct 01, 2025 10:18:01 am PDT #28451 of 28452
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Just finished Lone Women by Victor LaValle, if anyone is looking for an excellent horror-ish Western about a Black woman homesteader in Montana.


-t - Oct 01, 2025 12:14:25 pm PDT #28452 of 28452
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That sounds good. And available through my shiny new library card from across the bridge, so that will break that in nicely


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