( Frances Hardinge )

( Patricia Briggs and GRRM back catalog )

I'm not sure I've ever totally lost respect for a person I previously thought was rational, if someone with whom I disagreed, in the course of reading one comment thread. (The problem may have been my initial assessment, however.) I gotta say, by comparison to the general blogosphere, the parts of LJ/DW where I hang out are filled with rainbows ( Read more... )

Fic rec: Mistaken for Strangers, by
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(Post title taken from actual grading story I was told by a professor who shall not be named.) Grading today; confronted with an exam bearing a note that the examinee had not noticed Part 3 until the end of the (8-hour) exam, and thus had not provided an answer, ensuring a pretty bad grade given that the question was worth 35% of the grade. I ( Read more... )

( Stephen King, C.S. Friedman, Patricia Briggs, Robin Hobb )

( Butcher, Kim Stanley Robinson, Briggs )

Patricia Briggs, Moon Called: I really liked Briggs’s first Ward Hurog book.  Her other fantasy efforts I’ve found less successful.  This is a new direction for her: modern urban fantasy in the early Laurell K. Hamilton style, which is to say - magical female protagonist holding her own against a lot of hot supernatural guys, but no sexual ( Read more... )

( Butcher, Stewart, Briggs )

O my Honda Civic Hybrid -- I love you because when I took misterrivkat to the airport for his trip to Iceland, we left DC at 4:15 and I spent until around 6:30 navigating the usual, moderately awful DC-area rush hour in DC, Maryland, DC again and then Virginia ( Read more... )