Pick a number and get an answer! Or suggest a different book question.

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Last night I went to see Holly Bourne (British YA author -- her themes seem to be feminism and mental health, and the new one involves the internet) interview Hank Green (Vlogbrother, CrashCourse and Vidcon creator) about An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. Which is a very good book.

( book and interview stuff )

I’ve somehow never done this meme, I think, but I love reading other people’s and get good recs out of it, so here we go!

( fannishness this year )

I know! I thought I wasn’t going to do it and then I was just like I WANNA I LOVE A BANDWAGON.


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I haven’t forgotten the drabble offer, fyi, and I’m going to do my best to get to all of them!

( first, here is the sadly tiny books list for 2016 )

I thought this might be a fun post, especially since I love other people’s book review/rec posts but am terrible at making them myself.

Below is a list of the (shockingly few) books I read in 2015. They were all recommended or by authors I already knew I liked so I actually liked all of them; Frost didn’t get me to buy the next book in the series ( Read more... )

(Quick fyi: am at my dad’s in Geneva with my family this weekend, so I can’t reply to comments until Tuesday. But please do leave them! Apologies.)

A little while ago I finished Roz Kaveney’s Tiny Pieces of Skull. I feel like a bit of an idiot going all ~commentary about it but! am not at a con to have a long drunken discussion about it so this ( Read more... )

I am off to Eastercon in a little bit. Just for the day, sadly, but there are lots of fabulous people I'm excited to see again, and I'm bringing along a book or two I hope to get signed :D

The subject of fabulous people and signed books has made me realise I never posted about Roz Kaveney's “Resurrections”. This is a scandal and outrage ( Read more... )

A couple of links:

The End
For Terry Pratchett
What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?

My internet didn't work for like fourteen hours yesterday, and then I went to bed. So when I woke up a little bit ago, I immediately went to catch up on shiz and saw “with the loss of Sir Terry” and said out loud, “oh noI keep ( Read more... )

Go to the closest book to you. Turn to page 206. The first sentence explains your love life in 2015.

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"On the day of the dead, when the year too dies"?

Fuck you, Greenwitch.


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