... a lot, all the time, yum. Here's some you should read. Really, truly ( Read more... )

We moved on Sunday with the help of some truly muscled friends who unloaded all our stuff, carted it up 43 steps, and deposited it in our new little house in the mosquitoed woods. It's so good to have a place but there's all this endless, boring house-making stuff like getting signed up for internet, getting curtains, and a vacuum cleaner. Who ( Read more... )

Patrick Rothfuss's (Is that how you do the plural for a double S? It looks like some bad fantasy name. It's probably wrong but I'm too busy to go look up the grammar rule.) sequel to "The Name of the Wind" is a massive brick of a book that you see and say ugh, fantasy. Except then you read it and say, yum, fantasy, and please sir might I have ( Read more... )

Women, they are writing SF, yes they are. And what books have you read? Mine are in bold. Interesting to see how many of them I've never run across. Found this via aliettedb.livejournal.com, where she has more to say on why this is interesting and relevant.

1 Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (1818)
2 Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1915)
3 Orlando, ( Read more... )

I just finished ready "Matched," by Ally Condie. It's one of the current it books in YA-landia, and is readable and fun. It's a fast-paced romance with a credible depiction of the paranoia and self-censoring reactions of people living inside a totalitarian society. The main conceit is that everyone at age 17 who wants to get married is matched with ( Read more... )

Every now and then I put in requests at the library for books to order. They don't always get them, but sometimes they do. I'd love to support anyone's small press/limited distro books, so tell me what you've written (or read) that should really be in the Seattle Public Library. Also, tell me why it's good (not that I don't trust you, but that's ( Read more... )

My friend Rachel Swirsky, an excellent and provocative writer, has a book out with Aqueduct Press, "Through the Drowsy Dark." There's a great review of it up at Strange Horizons.

http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2010/08/through_the_dro.shtml

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Also, aren't book trailers cool, just as a concept?

I got my contributor's copy of Destination Future from Hadley Rille Press in the mail this weekend. Huge awesome, because my story "Alienation" is in it, and the fact that what I wrote, not exactly sure where I was going or why, but with the faith that it felt important, seeing those words in print is utterly lovely ( Read more... )

I bought "Catching Fire" on Friday, which is the sequel to Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games ( Read more... )