Oh, hey, Open Road Media is epublishing all of Mary Renault's contemporary novels, even the terrible ones. Seriously, do not waste any part of your limited lifespan on North Face. If you're immortal, I guess you can spare the time, but there are still so many more fun things you could be doing instead.


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Currently reading
Terry A. Adams, Battleground - Sequel to Sentience and The Master of Chaos (omnibus The D'Neeraan Factor). A telepath navigates a first contact with a species that seems to do nothing that is not directed towards waging war. This is made more difficult by traumatic recollections of a previous first contact (in which she was ( Read more... )

A little late, partly because I forgot I'd finished anything until Goodreads reminded me.

What did you just finish reading?
Books
B.R. Collins, Mazecheat - YA sf set in a future or alternate England where the only way out of acid-rain-drenched poverty is to win a virtual reality game. Gamerunners frequently hire mazecheats to program them ( Read more... )

Brief note on ebook sales
Kate Elliott's Cold Magic is $3.49 and Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle is $1.99 at multiple retailers and Megan Abbott's Queenpin is $3.99 at Amazon.

What did you just finish?
Books:
Madwoman After 30 Years - The Jane Eyre section is three essays:

• One competent and uninspired reading of images of enclosure ( Read more... )

FYI, Susan Palwick's Flying in Place is $2.99 for the month. Emotionally compelling short novel about a girl who is being molested by her father and who is visited by the ghost of the sister who died before she was born.

What did you just finish?
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• VIDA count 2012: Gender ratios of reviewers and authors of reviewed books in major literary publications
  
  
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What are you reading now?
Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. My friends who are trans or experienced trans allies think this is very 101, but I am at 101 and found this very useful. Especially helpful is the way it distinguishes sex, subconscious sex, sexual orientation, and gender ( Read more... )

Kristin Cashore has a wonderful post with extensive quotation from many of Mahy's YA novels, discussing what she loves about them.

eta: I totally lied, here's a second: Karen Healey on the three times she met Margaret Mahy.


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• mariness on Readercon and disability
  
• Readercon 2010 programming suggestions
  
• Justine Larbelestier on the whitewashing of the cover of her book Liar, as well as whitewashing in YA covers in general. Noted also: Mary Ann Mohanraj in comments on SE Asian Diaspora covers, and Neesha in The Brown Bookshelf comments:
  What I don’t understand is this: this cover ( Read more... )