Danny the Champion of the World and other tidbits
Another one of those "various things" bullet posts as I try to regain the desire to blog:
1. Skipping publication order once again, I chat about Danny the Champion of the World over at Tor.com. Meanwhile, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator has arrived, along with a number of other books that I completely forgot I also requested over the holidays, so, reading ahead!
2. While we're chatting about Tor.com, my post about An Infamous Army went up on Tuesday. (I also took the moment to briefly discuss a few other books that she wrote after that.)
3. A number of science fiction writers have banded together to help pay for Jay Lake's whole genome sequencing to fight his cancer. A few things on this:
a) the situation totally sucks; I've met him only a couple of times, but Jay is a pretty awesome guy whose major bad habit is to make other writers (me) feel guilty about just sitting around and sipping tropical drinks by the pool while he continued to write away. (Although he did come out and join us by the pool from time to time.) BUT
b) the chance to do genome sequencing on a science fiction writer just seems too science fictiony not to do. Also, his fellow writers have donated some pretty whimsical things.
4) And among other things this week, I finally a) got to the Morse Museum after four years of wanting and trying to go (and I hope it won't be my last trip) and b) picked up and finished A Memory of Light, the final book of the Wheel of Time series, decades after starting the series. I am going to be honest, everyone: one of those two things was more worth the wait than the other. However, I do have quite a lot to say about both, so, we'll see if after I get a few other things done (like, rest), one or the other inspires me to blogging.
1. Skipping publication order once again, I chat about Danny the Champion of the World over at Tor.com. Meanwhile, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator has arrived, along with a number of other books that I completely forgot I also requested over the holidays, so, reading ahead!
2. While we're chatting about Tor.com, my post about An Infamous Army went up on Tuesday. (I also took the moment to briefly discuss a few other books that she wrote after that.)
3. A number of science fiction writers have banded together to help pay for Jay Lake's whole genome sequencing to fight his cancer. A few things on this:
a) the situation totally sucks; I've met him only a couple of times, but Jay is a pretty awesome guy whose major bad habit is to make other writers (me) feel guilty about just sitting around and sipping tropical drinks by the pool while he continued to write away. (Although he did come out and join us by the pool from time to time.) BUT
b) the chance to do genome sequencing on a science fiction writer just seems too science fictiony not to do. Also, his fellow writers have donated some pretty whimsical things.
4) And among other things this week, I finally a) got to the Morse Museum after four years of wanting and trying to go (and I hope it won't be my last trip) and b) picked up and finished A Memory of Light, the final book of the Wheel of Time series, decades after starting the series. I am going to be honest, everyone: one of those two things was more worth the wait than the other. However, I do have quite a lot to say about both, so, we'll see if after I get a few other things done (like, rest), one or the other inspires me to blogging.