This is…pretty accurate, actually:

mayhap.dreamwidth.org is probably written by a female somewhere between 26-35 years old. The writing style is personal and happy most of the time.

It chokes on my LJ URL for some reason. Also, I fed it my tumblr, which it thinks is written by a middle-aged woman…possibly because the primary chunk of text on it is ( Read more... )

What I've been reading

I read both volumes of Matt Fraction's The Defenders, a sort of unconventional team book that starts out all messy and then gets brilliant and then canceled in short order. Alas.

I reread Surfeit of Lampreys, and I do still love the Lampreys. Plus Roberta Grey, honorary Lamprey, of course.

I read A Game for Swallows: To ( Read more... )

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I read Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, a collection of short stories, each paired with a critical essay, edited by Justine Larbalestier. I think this is a great way to set up an anthology; it's like after you finish each story, someone is waiting eagerly to discuss it with you, which is ( Read more... )

I decided that the Wednesday reading meme should have a fannish counterpart, so I'm initiating Friday fics. Unlike my Wednesday reading posts, I'm not going to include absolutely everything I've finished with scathing write-ups of stuff I hated or was utterly bemused by, just things I think someone else should conceivably read if they're into that ( Read more... )

What I've been reading

I reread Death in a White Tie, wherein Lady Alleyn continues to be the best and Troy barely manages to hold out against Alleyn's charms until the end of the book. I had a vague idea before I looked up the published order that there were more books in between the book where they meet and the book where the proposal is ( Read more... )

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I reread Death in Ecstasy, which was my least favorite Ngaio Marsh so far. The drugs subplot seriously strained my credulity-I don't consider myself to be an expert on heroin, by any means, but I can't find any evidence that anyone has ever smoked it in cigarettes. The main plot about the cult-y little church where they hand ( Read more... )

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I reread Dave Barry Slept Here because I found a paperback copy at the thrift store, which, as a bonus, tacks on a few pages at the end that bring it up to 1997, which IIRC made it more up to date than the actual textbook we used for AP American History in 2000-2001. Even though I have it semi-memorized, it never fails to ( Read more... )

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I read Point of Dreams, the sequel to Point of Hopes, which has everything I loved about that book, plus the mystery is set in a theatre, something which might as well have been taken from a checklist of things I love. I am still bemused by how un-shippy Nico/Philip is in the actual text-not only do they get together off- ( Read more... )

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As predicted last week, I read Abaddon's Gate, the concluding volume of the Expanse trilogy. These books scratch a Firefly-type itch-you have your space-faring future complete with all kinds of fancy medicine and weaponry, but scarcity is a thing and real food is a luxury and further out from the center you have a lot of ( Read more... )

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I read the fifth and sixth Accursed Kings books, The She-Wolf of France and The Lily and the Lion, both of which were great. The Lily and the Lion actually pretty much wraps everything up for the important characters who are still alive in an epilogue, so I can see why the English language publishers figured that they could ( Read more... )