I just finished truepenny's novel The Goblin Emperor, and loved it. There are not enough novels about good people, I think. Not that everyone in the book is good--saccharine doesn't appeal to me any more than anyone else--but it allows for the possibility of goodness, where too many other books suffer from an excess of cynicism under the guise of realism ( Read more... )

Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer.

I just read an interesting book review of C. Wright Mills' White Collar: The American Middle Classes. The book was written over 60 years ago, but the article is fresh, and makes me keen to read the book. The article highlights some of the issues we white-collar folks contend with and how the Mills anticipated them; I can recommend reading at ( Read more... )

This seems to happen to me whenever I get close to a bookstore.


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ursulav wrote a very good little reminder about how writing can work; some of you may find it helpful for getting back on track someday.

Also, this may have poked me in a place that could cause me to try writing something myself... we'll see.

Je cherche à lire plus en français, surtout des œuvres modernes écrites originalement en français. Il doit sûrement y avoir des romans et des nouvelles de science-fiction, du fantastique et de la fantasy qui valent la peine, mais ce qu'on m'a recommandé en Gaspésie n'est pas des gros chars (du moins, à mon avis). Vos suggestions seront appréciées

Kim Stanley Robinson - Sixty Days and Counting: ( Read more... )

Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds.--The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection: ( Read more... )

Books read this year:

1. Jacqueline Carey--The Sundering vol. 1: Banewreaker: ( Read more... )

Things I've read or watched recently:

Dion Fortune--Psychic Self-Defense: A little book of somewhat uncharacteristically hard-headed analysis of how to identify and deal with psychic troubles. A good deal of the book is spent on how to discriminate these from psychological effects, which is excellent, and also on how to discriminate effects ( Read more... )