I'm experimenting with shorter but hopefully more frequent rec posts instead of the monthly round ups. We'll see how it goes.

Anyways I got a copy of The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales ed. Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe out for the library and thought I should mention it here. Now I have been picking a choosing what to read in this, but ( Read more... )

So Hugo nomination season is open. I've been ordering holds from the library and even bought a couple of books so I can read lots of 2016 work before nominations close in March. Anyways during this process I've also decided to not read a couple of things that are probably really good and well done, but aren't what I want to be reading.

The Ballad ( Read more... )

I'm interviewed in the most recent episode of Cabbages and Kings. We talked about immersion and worldbuilding, and I got to geek out a bit about ecology. The episode is 30 minutes long. Go have a listen if you'd like ( Read more... )

So I've been writing fairly detailed reports of my non-fiction reading, but not much on my fiction reading. .

Recently I've been reading a lot of books recommended by Jo Walton's (aka papersky) posts on tor.com Most of what I'm going to talk about in this post I read at least in part because of her recommendation. I don't want to read everything she ( Read more... )