Sigh. I have a really, really good reason that I probably won't get to see Serenity in theaters in September, and the DC advance showing on May 26 is already sold out. Damn you, fellow obsessed fans! (If anyone knows where I might snag a ticket, let me know -- I'm willing to travel pretty much anywhere within a 5-hour radius of DC.)
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
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She sent me Dodie Smith (author of The Hundred and One Dalmations, a book I loved to pieces, literally!), Patricia Briggs, and The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property -- isn't that amazing?
I don't usually recommend fanfic, because I'm usually behind the curve -- if I've seen it and it's SV, anybody who might be interested has probably seen it as well. But Verism, if that's her name, doesn't seem to have an LJ -- correct me if I'm wrong, will you? And Luthor Detail and The 0100 were interesting short stories. The first is basically
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My sister's stories. I think I like her writing better than my own; it's rich in detail, sight and sound and scent. I'm not totally sure what's going on in the sf one, but I like it best except for its unfinishedness. She's not, however, much like her narrators at the present time; her regular blog is
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Iain Banks, Dan Brown, Harlan Coben, Jasper Fforde, Laurell K. Hamilton, Diana Wynne Jones, David Lodge, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Joss Whedon, sf and horror anthologies, and ancient Japanese poets.