Here are the best books I read in 2010 (some came out before):

OUTSTANDING:

fiction

• The Price of Spring, by Daniel Abraham
  The final book in "The Long Price Quartet" fantasy series, which began with A Shadow in Summer. I liked, but did not love, the first book in the series -- I thought the world was really intriguing, but I didn't really bond ( Read more... )

Hey LJ hivemind,

A friend asked me if I knew of any good books about poly and/or open relationships. Strangely, perhaps, I realized I've never read any books on the topic. I've heard plenty of debate about The Ethical Slut, but not much else. But I bet a lot of my LJ friends here have opinions on the topic. Recommendations? Anti- ( Read more... )

About 2/3 of the things I own have been in storage for the past year. Recently, contessagrrl and I decided to unpack the storage pod. "It'll be just like Christmas, but with your own stuff!" noted several friends who had been listening me talk longingly about what was in the pod for most of the past 12 months ( Read more... )

I have had a fabulous, awesome weekend that has left me feeling confident and accomplished and happy. It's been a long time since I felt this good about everything, and this sure that the future is going to be awesome.

Particular points of awesomeness:

• It was 80 degrees out. I didn't even go anywhere or get out as much as I should have, but I ( Read more... )

There's a class that someone from MIT is teaching on passing (both race-wise and gender-wise) that looks interesting. I don't have time to take it (or anything), but I want to put some of the books on my wish list and/or borrow them. I figured some of you might have read them and might have recommendations, or might own copies you wouldn't mind ( Read more... )

The undead are coming for our literature. You have been warned.

Jesse Reklaw of Slow Wave once illustrated a dream I had about dating a carrot. Now there is a new Slow Wave collection out called The Night of Your Life, featuring many people's dreams, including my own ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I posted. What's been up ( Read more... )

I'm in a really weirdly bad mood. I want to stomp around and swear a lot. I've been feeling that way intermittently today, and finding it kind of fascinating, because there's no reason for it that I can think of. Hmm, okay, actually, now I'm thinking of reasons -- but I still feel like I have just as many reasons to be grumpy lots of other times ( Read more... )

I have left Canada and am visiting my folks for a bit before returning to Boston. For those of you who will miss the cute kid stories, I'm sorry. For those of you who were alarmed by my LJ being taken over by so many cute kid stories, you can relax. This experience has not made me feel pangs of longing for my own cute kid (which is good, as my ( Read more... )