I promise I'll be reviewing some of the non-fiction eventually. In fact, the next two will both be non-fiction--I've finished one and am nearly done with another.

( Embassytown )

I really wanted to get a better head start on the List of Ten this year, since I didn't get all my books off last year's list read. And I'm doing better so far. I've finished one book, I'm over halfway through another, and I have a third waiting in the wings.

The first book off the list this year is ( The Name of the Rose )

Um. So. I'm getting very distracted from the story I'm writing because I realized that the Ninth Doctor has a Northern accent, but it sounds different (to my untaught American ear) than Sam Tyler's accent. (Most notably, I don't recall all of Nine's "u"s sounding like "oo"--Sam does that ALL the time, "Real...oonreal," etc ( Read more... )