a) Rachel Manija is offering to send folks any of her books (except All The Fishes Come Home To Roost, which she doesn't have in e-book format), if they want. Details here.

b) Celia Lake, a friendly acquaintance who lives a bit north of me, has been writing historical novels with magic in, in the 1920s. She's offering the first one for free, ( Read more... )

Hello, more media log.

Becky Chambers, _Record of a Spaceborn Few_: SF about humans, and what humanity is, and choices. Her 3rd book in her Wayfarers series. Set in her Exodan Human fleet that's left earth, around the same time as her 1st book, but with no repeat characters. There's a number of disconnected narrators, who seem all independent of ( Read more... )

Here, have some books for this past little while.

Eleanor Arnason, Ring of Swords (1993): This is great! Nothing happens, yet everything happens ( Read more... )

Hello! I am still avoidy, though this time I know exactly why. (My cat’s at the vet hospital and she’s having a CT scan and a biopsy and blarg. She’s sick. I worry. Money. I worry. (Angell + two nights' stay = $$$, but you know. Possible dead cat trumps $$$.) At least it’s not a) pneumonia, or b) an infected tooth. But I miss her stepping on my ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to post about other things, but since meaning to post about other things and then never getting around to it and not posting at all because I Should post about the Other Thing first is part of why I didn't post for MONTHS ON END, I figure I'll... post about the other stuff later ( Read more... )

This is really just a random selection of stuff. There's other stuff I've bought, too, but it's not coming to hand.

The Wise Men: Six Friends And the World They Made -- I think I got this at the Unitarian Church Fair, but I’m really not sure. Anyway, book about a bunch of State Department folks and their friendship and etc etc. (Robert Lovett, ( Read more... )

OK! These are the top 106 books most often tagged as “unread” on LibraryThing ( Read more... )

Women writers, instead. This is kind of a reaction to the SFBC's list, promulgated by the ever-energetic Heaven's Calyx"The meme is this: go down the list and bold those writers whose work you know you've read, and list the most memorable or significant-to-you work(s) by that writer that you've read (or put "all" if the writer's that good!). ( Read more... )

I post meme I've been nibbling on now. then I go thud to bed ( Read more... )

List of Hugo winners. (Thank you pleonastic. The list of nominees is hereConnie Willis won yet another one, for Novella this time. Haven't read it. Don't know. Just think she has too many On Principle. I'm peculiar, I know. People who've read it, was it Hugo-worthy? Mind you, I have an ulterior motive, I was rooting for Kelly Link, so you can ( Read more... )