I now need a movie about lady bartenders during and after WWII. Or a TV series. It would be like Agent Carter, but with more alcohol ( Read more... )

(Is the New Yorker's new stance "no one should like reading anything unless it is approved by us"? Didn't they just publish one of these finger-wagging pieces for adults? Did they feel like they weren't scolding enough readers with that last one? Thought they'd cast their net a little wider, did they?)

"What if the strenuous accessibility of ' ( Read more... )

Has anyone else seen commercials for this ABC show Forever that started tonight? I only noticed them at first because I recognized Ioan Gruffudd - but then it turned out that the premise involved a man who's been alive for hundreds of years and can't die ( Read more... )

I made a cake! Apparently my reaction to cool weather after really hot weather is to make up reasons to take advantage of the stove and/or oven while it's cool enough to do so. Which makes sense when it's roasting a bunch of vegetables for lunch, or making a pot of polenta to eat throughout the week, but...cake? I never bake things, but I wanted to ( Read more... )

...why did I think that rereading The Demon's Covenant was a good idea, exactly?

Of course, this is not going to stop me from going to the library and getting the third book in the trilogy. Because I have no sense.

So Neil Gaiman is on the cover of the July/August issue of Poets and Writers Magazine. I find this irrationally annoying, because normally P&W is emphatically uninterested in genre fiction. (Well, I suppose most of the writing magazines are, but The Writer and Writer's Digest will occasionally have a tone-deaf "everyone is writing about vampires/ ( Read more... )

Making my way through my library requests: two down, but the other two might need to go back unread; my brain keeps bouncing off of one of them especially.

But I did read The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker, which I enjoyed. (It feels to me like this book has gotten a lot of press compared to the average fantasy novel, especially for a debut ( Read more... )

Occasionally my best friend asks me for book suggestions for her...step-nephew? He likes the Percy Jackson books (which I've not read), so I'm trying to keep my recommendations to fantasy with a mythological bent, although occasionally I slip up and just recommend a favorite that doesn't quite fit the criteria. Here's what I've recommended so far ( ( Read more... )

My library request for Team Human by Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan came in today. So of course I have just finished reading it, at 5 AM ( Read more... )

Can you believe I hadn't read A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones yet? Me either. I thought the ending was rather sudden (I mean the *very* ending, the "what are we to do with Vivian, then?" bit), but I spent a good deal of the book being overcome by conscientious android feelings and wanting there to be time ghosts in, like, every book ever ( Read more... )