miscellaneously fannish
1) OK, so there is a new Guy Gavriel Kay book coming out ...
... set, more or less, in the early modern Eastern Mediterranean ...
... with a motif about "the lives of those not powerful"?
It's vaguely possible that this could somehow be more Relevant To My Interests, but I'm damned if I can see how.
2) I have my new exam copy of the Norton Shakespeare, third edition. Better and wiser minds than mine will probably have a lot to say about the merits of this text, but I will only say that the lines "Bear thou my hand, sweet wench, between thy teeth" and "Groping for trouts in a peculiar river" have been RESTORED -- no longer relegated to an appendix or edited into something more genteel. THANK YOU. (Also, thanks to gehayi and lareinenoire for talking me into teaching R2 this semester, because I had a student come up to me after our first class this morning and tell me it was her favorite play.)
3) Bujold Ficathon 2015 is open for sign-ups, prompts, and fills. Also, chapters 7-9 of A Bit Too Much Good Work are up at AO3. Now with 700% more people reciting Shakespeare while doped up on fast-penta than the canon! I should be getting chapter 10 up sometime this weekend.
... set, more or less, in the early modern Eastern Mediterranean ...
... with a motif about "the lives of those not powerful"?
It's vaguely possible that this could somehow be more Relevant To My Interests, but I'm damned if I can see how.
2) I have my new exam copy of the Norton Shakespeare, third edition. Better and wiser minds than mine will probably have a lot to say about the merits of this text, but I will only say that the lines "Bear thou my hand, sweet wench, between thy teeth" and "Groping for trouts in a peculiar river" have been RESTORED -- no longer relegated to an appendix or edited into something more genteel. THANK YOU. (Also, thanks to gehayi and lareinenoire for talking me into teaching R2 this semester, because I had a student come up to me after our first class this morning and tell me it was her favorite play.)
3) Bujold Ficathon 2015 is open for sign-ups, prompts, and fills. Also, chapters 7-9 of A Bit Too Much Good Work are up at AO3. Now with 700% more people reciting Shakespeare while doped up on fast-penta than the canon! I should be getting chapter 10 up sometime this weekend.