Some years ago I found a copy of The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery, Volume III in a used bookstore, and I've never read it because, among other reasons, I'm constitutionally incapable of starting anything with Volume III. Some time during Femslash February I got frustrated that there wasn't more Anne/Diana fic, especially higher-rated fic ( ( Read more... )

I haven't actually read any of these yet, but I thought I'd link them for coercedbynutmeg and anyone else who might be interested in Rose Wilder Lane's writing outside the Little House books.

I am so close to getting my hands on a copy of Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography! Only sixteen people ahead of me ( Read more... )

I found a hardcover copy of To Say Nothing of the Dog at the thrift store today. Not only is the dustjacket in tolerable condition, I found a folded To Say Nothing of the Dog poster from the Science Fiction Book Club tucked in the back.

Why did they print a To Say Nothing of the Dog poster in the first place? I don't know, but now I have one.

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Broken Age Act 2 finally has a release date, and it's only a month from now!

An Apprentice to Elves, the third book in Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette's psychic wolf idfest Iskryne series, also has a release date, and it's in October! That's not quite as good as April, but still pretty good!

Also posted on Dreamwidth, where there are
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The 2015 Youth Media Award winners were announced this morning. Brown Girl Dreaming cleaned up with a Newbery Honor, a Coretta Scott King Award, and a Silbert Informational Book Honor, and Rain Reign got a Schneider Family Book Award (disability experience ( Read more... )

Even though I own a copy of The Documents in the Case-I bought it new at Barnes and Noble with my own money in high school, even-I'm virtually certain I had only read it once before, and literally the only thing that I remembered about it before I picked it up again was "something to do with mushrooms." (The cover illustration on the HarperCollins ( Read more... )

This was fun last year, so I have once again used my data from Goodreads to construct some charts!


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It's ALA Youth Media Awards announcement day! I celebrated as I traditionally do, by rushing to put holds on a bunch of winning and honor books before everyone else does the same thing. This year I'm no deeper than five on the waitlist for anything, which is not bad. I look forward to receiving and perusing these items ( Read more... )

I used the data from my year in books on Goodreads to construct some charts!


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As Yuletide season is already upon us, and NaNoWriMo is swiftly approaching, many of you may be casting about for suitable distractions to procrastinate with. (Hey, it's a very important part of my creative process!)

In that vein, I proffer Card Hunter, a cute and polished free flash game that is a sort of hybrid Dungeons & Dragons/Magic: the ( Read more... )