So the long September of book events is nearly over. I've decided not to go to the Ally Carter event this weekend. As fun as it'd be to see her again, I'm pretty worn out.
( Elizabeth Wein, V.E. Schwab, stealth cosplaying, and 9/27 reading meme )

September is a busy month. I am sure that is not news to parents, but to a local comics/book fan, it certainly is!

( Baltimore Comic Con )

Reading meme from
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So I haven't updated this journal since May. Sorry about that! I'd love to say I've been insanely busy but really I just seem to never getting around to updating things. Since that last occasion, I've made the trek down to Richmond with
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So... yeah. Because I had little interest in either team in this year's Super Bowl and I was frankly getting tired of being pissed off with every other ad, I decided to use my Sunday productively in other ways. I read the first three chapters of Dorothy L. Sayers' "Gaudy Night" and then I mainlined nearly all of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries. If you've ( Read more... )

A few days ago, Jim Hines posted the news about Ann Crispin. She's battling cancer and her only source of income was the Starbridge novels which were being reprinted by Ridan. So she thought. Except they hadn't been in contact in awhile. Other authors have been caught in the crossfire as well.

Fortunately there is a semi-happy ending to this one. ( Read more... )

The entire Liaden series is now available on audiobook via Audible -- all fifteen books worth so far ( Read more... )

Everyone has their "guilty pleasure" reads. Mine appear be Melissa De La Cruz's YA Blue Bloods series that mix vampires and Gossip Girls and a little Paradise Lost for good measure. I've now on the fourth book "The Van Alen Legacy" with its switching POVs every chapter; I now understand how GRRM fans feel being tempted to just read the chapters ( Read more... )

Ray Bradbury has died. At 91, he had a long and creative life, but darned if we didn't think he'd live forever.

The New Yorker has unlocked his last piece from their SF Issue and feels surprisingly apt.

I would go out to that lawn on summer nights and reach up to the red light of Mars and say, "Take me home!" I yearned to fly away and land there ( Read more... )

In the more things change category: The Title of John Carter and why it has everything to do with Gender in Hollywood: I find the discussion wholly ironic because of my twitter list, the ones really excited to see the teaser trailer were all women. And not the lead-actor-is-a-babe factor, but they were fans of the Barsoom/John Carter of Mars books ( Read more... )