Taskmaster s17e09 -- I was traveling when this came out, so wasn't able to watch it until late Thursday night (and stayed up an hour later than I otherwise would have to watch it, even though I was pretty tired), and meanwhile read the Reddit thread, which is actually not all that spoilery as an experience, because Taskmaster is so random, you can' ( Read more... )

Well, so, I'm going to manage at least one Hugo category in full, even if it's just short stories (ETA: and novelettes!)

"Proof by Induction", Jose Pablo Iriarte -- I enjoyed this one a lot. It happened to have hit a couple of things RTMI -- parents and children (over more than one generation), a story about math and academia (which I may not ( Read more... )

34. N.K.Jemisin, The City We Became -- Huh. I was expecting to have a hard time getting through this book, based on everything I knew about the premise and also the reviews I've seen from people for whom it did not work. So I cautiously peeked at it when I needed a new thing to be reading on my phone, when I didn't have my main (hard copy) read ( Read more... )

31. Freya Marske, A Marvelous Light -- this debut novel will be out in November, but meanwhile I got to read it in an ARC through a series of fortuitous connections (<333 at the chain of said connections: THANK YOU!) It was fun, and well done, but in a way that had me thinking of it as fanfic pretty much the whole time -- not a criticism, per se, ( Read more... )

Oh hey, remember how I used to consume fiction? and have thoughts about it and stuff? Let's try that again.

Books: I'm still not reading much (as an understatement). Since I stopped commuting to work, a full 4 months ago, I have finished three (in numbers: 3) books.

11. C.J. Cherryh, Cyteen -- my first novel-length Cherryh (I think I read a ( Read more... )

There is a new Vorkosiverse novella coming! About Ekaterin -- "The Flowers of Vashnoi". Which, on the one hand, is not what I most wan to see in this universe (that would be Galeni, Gregor, and Ivan dealing with fatherhood please!), but I am still delighted by the fact of more Vorkosiverse.

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33. Paper Girls, vol.1 (Brian K. Vaughan, art by Cliff ( Read more... )