SEPTEMBER
The Wild Shore (Kim Stanley Robinson): ..meh. Postapocalyptic "what is America" bildungsroman where the protagonist learns that sometimes people lie to you and don't have your best interests at heart. This has some of the elements I like about KSR's other novels - attention to detail, location as almost a character in its own right - but ( Read more... )

1.) The big blogosphere news of the last 48 hours is Cooks Source editor's plagiarism and rudeness when asked to acknowledge her unethical action. Unfortunately for Ms. Griggs, the original poster has a social media connection, and basically her bad behavior brought the internet dogpile on her ( Read more... )

Today outdoor work was canceled on account of rain. I pulled The Honor of the Queen from a box in lieu of doing anything useful. I chewed through the Honor Harrington novels in late high school / early college; hopefully my taste in infodumps has since improved. (It's also tempting to make notes about the progression of feminism in the nearly two ( Read more... )

This weekend was partially consumed by Rachel Manija Brown's memoir All the Fishes Come Home to Roost. Since then I have been backspacing, typing, and backspacing again on how many of my reactions I need to overshare. You don't have to drag your child from LA, USA, to an ashram in an Indian backwater to demonstrate poor parenting skills. In the ( Read more... )

See? Not as late as July! Go me!

Cutting for major spoilers and some space. May come back and cut for space more once I post this and see how much space it hogs.

(Nine books. Nine. Shoot. Granted, some of them were short, but others were five hundred pages. Probably won't read this many novels again until I get another insane commute like August ( Read more... )