The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark.

Goldenhand by Garth Nix.

Tremontaine season 2 episode 11: In the Shadow of Riverside by Tess Gratton. Kindle.

Tremontaine season 2 episode 12: Smoke and Ashes by Mary Anne Mohanraj. Kindle.

Tremontaine season 2 episode 13: Dissolution by Ellen Kushner. Kindle.

Huntress by Malindo Lo. Kindle.

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This writing malarky is great when I have the brain for it. Just finished my third* collaborative story game on Storium - https://storium.com/game/dust-in-the-wind/chapter-1/scene-1 - this one's a futuristic cyberpunkish, soft SF story about a group of ( Read more... )

I'd like to say that it's because Scots are less racist and more leftwing than the English but that wouldn't actually be true (social attitude studies consistently show little difference - for example this report (pdf) "Is Scotland more left-wing than England" finds very modest differences in concern over income inequality and support for tax-and- ( Read more... )

Something I hate: my kitchen. It's a building site with no storage. One day I will get a new one ( Read more... )

Something I hate: Mould on my walls from leaky guttering no-one will fix ( Read more... )

Tremontaine episode 10: Shadowroot by Joe Derfner & Ellen Kushner. I thought this guy was the weakest of the ensemble writers after his first couple of episodes but this one was much better actually. [kindle]

Tremontaine episode 11: Go And Tell The Morning Star by Alaya Dawn Johnson & Ellen Kushner. A secret is revealed and Kaab chooses between ( Read more... )

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy. Entertaining adventure story which is about as close to the TV adaptations I remember as Disney's Three Musketeers is to the original, I wasn't expected it to be narrated by his wife for a start. It does however, rely on classic case of telling rather than showing - we're told she's regarded as the cleverest ( Read more... )

My Saturday involved doing my kitchen chores while singing along to loud 80s Bon Jovi and then an evening of TV entertainment which involved Strictly, awe-inspiring record-breaking Grand Prix Final figure skating*, and Red2 (I want to be Helen Mirren when I grow up ( Read more... )

Really glad I joined the Scottish Greens and got involved this year. Going to the count last night was really good fun. We didn't get either of our deposits back but we substantially increased our vote share in both constituencies and managed about 3% (and 4th place) in Dundee West which was pretty damn good all things considered, since that was ( Read more... )

Lights on, heating on, and I saw snow flakes amongst the rain battering on the window. Having planned to put away my winter clothes today seems rather premature now ( Read more... )