-- politics-fandom-fail: WTF PEOPLE ARE UPSET BECAUSE A BLACK CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY A BLACK ACTRESS? Are you kidding me with this shit, Internets? #thehungergames.

-- politics/fail: Of course in a world like this, where you can just shoot people in the street without the expectation that the police will, you know, care, I guess I shouldn't be ( Read more... )

So... I was looking for something new to read after working my way through scott-lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies (they are awesome, btw. Highly recommended -- if you like lovely, long, engrossing caper-style fantasy novels set in Renaissance alt!Venice/alt!Mediterranean Europe, with con-men, thieves, pirates, casino-heists, and a ( Read more... )

So... how about this whole Egypt thing, huh ( Read more... )

1. Among Others, by Jo Walton or papersky. I couldn't get into her medieval fantasy book series at all, but I've loved everything else she's written, from Tooth and Claw (Think Trollope, with dragons) to her Small Change series, which are country house mysteries in an Alternate WWII-era Britain where the fascists have won. Among Others is described by ( Read more... )

So... my copy of Cryoburn arrived today...

It comes with a CD-ROM on which you will find every Vorkosigan novel (as well as every word that Bujold has written that could be remotely related to that 'verse) for free. [ETA: Except, for some reason, Memory, which is in competition for my favorite Vorkosigan novel. So you might have to buy that one ( Read more... )

So... I've been having this weird LJ phobia to go with all the other flavors of insanity I've been dipping into of late. If anything of note's happened to you guys in the last... several weeks, I'm probably unaware -- so please do drop me a comment if there's anything you'd like to share with me ( Read more... )

First of all, thanks to mellacita! I ♥ my snowflake! I can't believe I got one! Thank you so much! It really made me smile.

*Sometimes, you need a little xmas giddyness via rm. Oh, Ten. This link is kind of a smiffle(smile+sniffle=smiffle, right?)

*Distant Reading -- the chatter of a century, distilled from novels digitised, and thus made searchable. I ( Read more... )

~ Today (well, yesterday, I suppose, technically) I had my endoscopy! And they found some stuff....? "Erythematous mucosa in the gastric antrum..." which translated means some red inflammation? Yeah, I wish doctors wouldn't come and explain these results to you just as you're coming out of anaesthesia. I was still pretty loopy when it was being ( Read more... )

rm gave me a gorgeous bracelet (at some point, I'll take a picture of it and post it -- IHNIIHBT fans will get a kick out of it, I think); hofnarr, some awesome Whovian comics; Dave took me to see Chicago & Tam took me to see Le Corsaire.

I can't wait till the death trinkets begin to roll in! (Kidding. Obviously.)

But TONIGHT there was, courtesy of faris_nallaneen the ( Read more... )

Item: Lord Peter Wimsey.

Sadly Dorothy Sayers wrote Lord Peter mysteries of a finite number, and then moved onto religious plays, and Dante of all things...[and I say, wasn't one infernal poet enough??? I ask you. When the world could have been blessed with tales of Lady Peter (nee Miss Harriet Deborah Vane) and the Wimsey sproglets in WWII to say ( Read more... )