I've been slacking on my reading lately, partly because said reading wasn't gripping me, partly because I've been watching TV and scrolling Yuletide-related posts instead, but I did finish one (1) book, and should post about the other media consumptions stuff, too, so :P

42. James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse book 1) -- Huh. I've been ( Read more... )

RIP Mira Furlan :( (This post made me tear up.)

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4. Steven Brust, Good Guys -- this is an urban fantasy standalone, and it's pretty good? But like everything by Brust that I read which is not Dragaera, it makes me realize that while I pretty much always end up respecting and appreciating the way Brust writes things -- the negative-space storytelling, the dialogue-heavy prose, characters who are ( Read more... )

I lied about going back to RL posts next :P

1. Lois McMaster Bujold, The Flowers of Vashnoi -- The butterbug novella I've been wanting to read for years, ordered as soon as it was available, and then proceeded not to read for months. But a week or so into the new year I was in a reading slump, in the middle of five books without making progress ( Read more... )

In what seems to be evolving into an end-of-winter-break tradition of sorts, the rodents and I went to see a movie together. Last year it was The Last Jedi; this time around we caught Into the Spider-Verse. It was really good! Really funny (I laughed out loud a lot, and there was one scene where I had tears streaming down my face), poignant and ( Read more... )

Dec 9: Top 3 Babylon 5 moments (for egelantier)

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Whee! My stocking went up on fandom_stocking, which I had fun doing last year and decided to do again.

Also (as you might notice in the stocking), I finally took the plunge and got myself a (totally empty for now) AO3 account. At some point I will actually need to upload some of my doggerel there (that's basically why I got it).

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11. Karen Healey (karenhealey), Guardian of the Dead -- I'd been hearing good things about this book and vaguely meaning to check it out for a while, and then I started thinking of what I wanted to read for the "book set in a place I've wanted to visit for a long time" bingo square, and New Zealand is pretty much at the top of my travel bucket list (OK, maybe ( Read more... )