When annietalbot gave me the heads-up about Lois McMaster Bujold being at Boskone, I really should've taken the Fri-Sat shift off to be sure I could make it up for at least part of today. At 5pm, she was scheduled to (and presumably did) give a 45 minute reading from her new VK book, Cryo Burn. Panels and autographing earlier in the day. I was, ( Read more... )

Rambling not-exactly-review of Lois McMaster Bujold's latest.

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Someone just posted on lmbujold that she's started the beginnings of a Vorkosigan resource on the idea of the HP Lexicon. Other people are popping up ideas such as turning it into a wiki using http://pbwiki.com/ or http://www.seedwiki.com/Read more... )

Apparently today is "blog about zombies day" or something. Can I just point to that fic rec from Monday and call it done? Well, I'm gonna anyway.

summer_of_giles fic is off being beta'd. Whee! Now starting to think about bujold_fic prompt, which I got last night. Looks like it shall be another Ivan/Byerly, which makes it very tempting to try and do the revisions on " ( Read more... )

Work was ... surreal. Went to lunch with Patsfan. Came home and wrote. Went to yoga class that was half yoga half Reiki demonstration. I haven't done Reiki on anyone in way, way too long. Also? Quieting the mind like that is dangerous. It allows rabid plotbunnies - utterly unrelated to what one is supposed to be writing - to attack. I'm ( Read more... )

Runaway roses and defiant skellytums.

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I did the same thing with the Narnia books when I was a kid. I thought it was "Alsan" for literally years, and even once I got straightened out, it took forever before "Aslan" seemed right.

I clicked on an interesting link over in lmbujold that goes over official pronunciations per LMB. I was surprised by the pronunciation given for the family including ( Read more... )

witchchild pointed me to this comic about The Warrior's Apprentice. Well, it's *about* the readers of sf, more like, but also has a synopsis of TWA.

I needed that laugh. Thanks again, witchchild.

So, that Barayaran Gatorade reference prompted me to reread Shards of Honor and Barrayar. And I had the quote a bit wrong. It's "potassium-salts-laced fruit-flavored pick-me-up for the metabolically depleted." IOW, Barrayaran Gatorade. *snicker* I love when sf/f writers do things like that.

Some ILL's came in today, so I'm working on Winds ( Read more... )

Re-read the Mage Wars series. ( cut for spoiler )