O my friends who are #SeananMcGuire fans! The Thirteen Days of Hogswatch are here again!

Rose-Owls and Pumpkin Girls

Crossposted from https://montuos.dreamwidth.org/1748909.html ;
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Shared because I might know a few math geeks, or a few people who adored the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. And if you didn't adore Harold, I'm simply going to assume you had a deprived childhood and never knew him.
Then there was Atlas the Mental Genius, a Barnaby character. This odd guest star had a unique habit of speaking in complex ( Read more... )

Do you love fantasy author Robin McKinley’s books Blue Sword, Sunshine, Pegasus, The Hero and the Crown, Spindle’s End, and others? SHADOWS is coming in September 26th! http://tinyurl.com/RMcKSHADOWS #RMcKSHADOWS Tweet it, Facebook it, blog it to enter a drawing for a signed copy Read more... )

I've decided that I must add Seanan McGuire to the Roger Zelazny list. You know the one; it's the "If you die before you finish this series, I will KILL YOU!!1" list. (Not that I was all that fanatic about Zelazny's books, but I wasn't the one who came up with and named that concept - and I am definitely that fanatic about a few other authors ( Read more... )

Ok, I think I already posted about this a few days ago (or maybe that was just on Twitter and G+), but then I noticed today that by posting and emailing back, I can enter to win one of Robin McKinley’s books...so you're getting spammed again because her books are Just That Awesome ( Read more... )

Kindle for Public Libraries of the Day

As cool as I think this idea is - and I don't even use e-readers at all! - I think this very well may exacerbate the coming "poor people don't deserve to read" problem Seanan McGuire eloquently describes in this post I recently shared: Across the digital divide.

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Across the digital divide.

This doesn't change the part where, every time a discussion of ebooks turns, seemingly inevitably, to "Print is dead, traditional publishing is dead, all smart authors should be bailing to the brave new electronic frontier," what I hear, however unintentionally, is "Poor people don't deserve to read."Libraries are losing ( Read more... )

Thanks to everybody who suggested Nemesis to me the other week when I asked for book advice. Oddly enough, although the title was entirely familiar to me, the story was not; I actually don't think I had ever read it before. Ironically, the title of its precursor A Caribbean Mystery rang no bells at all for me, but I did distinctly recall the ( Read more... )

I've been on an Agatha Christie kick lately. I've just finished re-reading (in reverse order) The Man in the Brown Suit, The Secret of Chimneys, The Body in the Library, Murder at the Vicarage, Remembered Death, and Sleeping MurderAny suggestions what I should look for next? I'm more fond of Miss Marple than M. Poirot, and tend to prefer the ( Read more... )

When someone in your house has been given a new book as a gift, of course it's rude to read it before the recipient does. But how long should one wait before asking, "Have you read it yet? May I read it now?"???