And I've been heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere, silent all these years
So, internets, I have not posted in a while.
Let's use a linkspam to limber up my fingers.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Huck Finn, High School Curriculums, and Canon by
sanguinity Boy, am I glad that I moved from Upstate New York to the DC suburbs way before I got to high school.
'Inception,' Art, Edelstein, And The Impossibility Of Accounting For Taste from
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Can the Internet save the book? An interview with Clay Shirky
1romanceebooks Anniversary Blog Tour, which includes a contest to read a free Sony E-Reader.
I got that link from Jordan Castillo Price, who is writing some m/m paranormal and horror. I haven't actually tried any of the horror, but I've greatly enjoyed her Psycop series, about a schlubby guy who sees ghosts who lands a smoking hot butch boyfriend and doesn't quite know what to do with himself.
Also, in fiction that is new to me, I gobbled up Ilona Andrews' Kate Daniels books in the past two weeks. The romance aspect of the books is not my favorite (I love him because of how much I enjoy kicking him in the head lacks a certain je ne sais quoi), but the world building is really excellent, and I very much like that Kate's ~special~ status is built in from book 1, instead of appearing in a series of highly unlikely and unexplained power ups (yes, AB/LKH, this means you.) I also like that Kate tries to investimagate things, even if her deductive powers are usually being turned towards things that no one's heard of or aren't particularly supposed to exist, so it's very difficult for wearing out leather to be of any use.
Also also, because I was thinking about it and wondering if there was a new book on the horizon (sadly, no) Shanna Swendson's Enchanted, Inc. series. (And, I am so glad that the author has an unusual first name, because I'd gotten it into my head that the series was Magic, Inc., and there are a lot of those out there.) Anyway, these are more fantasy romance than urban fantasy, i.e. our heroine is a secretary whose secret power is immunity to magic, not a practitioner of many and sacred martial arts or ancient monster killing traditions. Recommended to readers of romance who are happy with fantasy elements, but not to people who are readers of fantasy who enjoy romance elements added in.
Last but not least, wen-spencer has been posting bits and pieces from her Tinker/Wolf Who Rules universe. Perhaps she's working on book three? That would be good. I keep meaning to go back and read the rest of the Ukiah series, but the library doesn't have it.
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Let's use a linkspam to limber up my fingers.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Huck Finn, High School Curriculums, and Canon by
sanguinity Boy, am I glad that I moved from Upstate New York to the DC suburbs way before I got to high school.
'Inception,' Art, Edelstein, And The Impossibility Of Accounting For Taste from
monkeyseeatnpr_feed
Can the Internet save the book? An interview with Clay Shirky
1romanceebooks Anniversary Blog Tour, which includes a contest to read a free Sony E-Reader.
I got that link from Jordan Castillo Price, who is writing some m/m paranormal and horror. I haven't actually tried any of the horror, but I've greatly enjoyed her Psycop series, about a schlubby guy who sees ghosts who lands a smoking hot butch boyfriend and doesn't quite know what to do with himself.
Also, in fiction that is new to me, I gobbled up Ilona Andrews' Kate Daniels books in the past two weeks. The romance aspect of the books is not my favorite (I love him because of how much I enjoy kicking him in the head lacks a certain je ne sais quoi), but the world building is really excellent, and I very much like that Kate's ~special~ status is built in from book 1, instead of appearing in a series of highly unlikely and unexplained power ups (yes, AB/LKH, this means you.) I also like that Kate tries to investimagate things, even if her deductive powers are usually being turned towards things that no one's heard of or aren't particularly supposed to exist, so it's very difficult for wearing out leather to be of any use.
Also also, because I was thinking about it and wondering if there was a new book on the horizon (sadly, no) Shanna Swendson's Enchanted, Inc. series. (And, I am so glad that the author has an unusual first name, because I'd gotten it into my head that the series was Magic, Inc., and there are a lot of those out there.) Anyway, these are more fantasy romance than urban fantasy, i.e. our heroine is a secretary whose secret power is immunity to magic, not a practitioner of many and sacred martial arts or ancient monster killing traditions. Recommended to readers of romance who are happy with fantasy elements, but not to people who are readers of fantasy who enjoy romance elements added in.
Last but not least, wen-spencer has been posting bits and pieces from her Tinker/Wolf Who Rules universe. Perhaps she's working on book three? That would be good. I keep meaning to go back and read the rest of the Ukiah series, but the library doesn't have it.
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