1. My assistant, whom I have gotten hooked on Hidden Sweets in Harvard Square, went there last week and texted to inform me that the beloved grapefruit gummi candy of song and story has been discontinued, and that HS was already out. After partially recovering from my shock, I went to the internet and ordered a 3-lb bag of them, which has now ( Read more... )

I woke up in a good mood on Friday (sushi aftereffects?) and then had therapy. Therapist is onto me, as I have complained to Twitter already -- she refuses to hear only about the things that are going well now and directs me back to how the one terrible thing is getting its miasma everywhere. So that was hard but probably a good idea ( Read more... )

I had a nice date tonight, despite still having the last bits of the terrible cold I got on the airplane and having to duck out of the theater for a protracted coughing fit in the hallway, and arrived home to find an awesome Christmas present from one of the people I missed seeing in Seattle. (A set of four botanical fern-motif mugs and a Riot ( Read more... )

Well, maybe it does take being knocked on my ass by illness to make me post. Or to make me read slowly enough to think about books as I go, or something. My thoughts are too long for Twitter reviews, so here are longer and less coherent musings for you.

Commitment Hour, James Alan Gardner. So this is what a gender exploration novel looks like ( Read more... )

It turns out I like fitting book reviews into 140 characters a lot more than I like writing them long-form. Here are some.

Devil on my Back, Hughes. Cyborg lords are fat & the worst! Until one meets noble savages, gains context, and becomes a mighty SF author.
( September 27, 2015)

The Girl With All the Gifts. 70% Walking Dead, 20% Flowers for ( Read more... )

THERE IS NO BOOKSTORE

I WOULD HAVE PRIORITIZED THIS OVER ADDING TOURISTS

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Sheri Tepper has a new book which is basically Heinlein's Number of the Beast. I am appalled and must read it ASAP.

(also WTF wasn't Mavin asleep for a hundred years)

Obviously I texted
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1. Accomplished much sewing today with happy sunbeamish cats ( Read more... )

Having dreams about things like uprooting tree trunks that would otherwise grow back trees and accidentally exalting hatchling pixeldragons that I should really have done more with. Yes, thanks, subconscious, I am aware that I will be shutting off uterine possibilitiesCame down with a mild cold today, ugh. Rested rather than working, even though ( Read more... )

( Major spoiler for Hambly's Stranger at the Wedding )