I have been automatically cross-posting my DW entries to LJ for some time now (since April 2017), and AFAICT this has mostly Just Worked.

The DW folks recently said that LJ have stopped co-operating with them about the cross-posting feature; they used to pass-list DW's IP so that even if one person put in the wrong password, most people would ( Read more... )

I managed to read all of these and get my vote in just before the deadline. All six of these were good stories, and it was hard to rank them.

1. The Inaccessibility of Heaven, Aliette de Bodard; a well put together mystery tale with fallen angels
2. The Pill, Meg Elison; holds an uncomfortable mirror up to how we treat fat people and the pressures we put ( Read more... )

The voting deadline is approaching, and I'm not going to get everything read in time. I have, however, read all the short stories, and will be voting thus:

1. "Open House on Haunted Hill", John Wiswell. A moving story, with humour, and I liked the sideways take on the haunted house trope.
2. "Metal Like Blood in the Dark", T. Kingfisher. I don't want to ( Read more... )

I read The Secret Barrister's eponymous first book in 2020, around the time I was in Nottingham for IVFDF. Fake Law is their second book, and is about how (and to some extent why) the law and its operation is systematically misreported (by media and politicians).

Each chapter follows a similar structure, for different areas of law: some headlines ( Read more... )

I've read them all now, so time to vote!

I struggled a bit to rank these, but this is where I ended up:

1. Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse
2. Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
3. The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
4. Network Effect, Martha Wells
5. The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal
6. Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

The voting deadline is 20 November, so I really need to get to the ( Read more... )

This is the last of the Hugo novel shortlist.

It's a strange and beautiful book; an enigma. Try and read it without spoilers the first time! The narrator lives in the House, a vast labyrinth of halls filled with statues of things that do not otherwise exist in the House. The upper levels are cloud, and the lower levels filled with water. The only ( Read more... )

This is the 15th October Daye book, and it is basically fanservice. Toby and Tybalt are getting married, at last! If you're invested in these characters and their relationships, you'll enjoy this book (if you've not read any of this series, don't start here!). It was fun to spend time with all these characters again, though the plot felt a bit ( Read more... )

Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse. This is the first of a series (I don't know of how many; a sequel is due out next year); it's a fantasy novel set somewhere that isn't obviously European (if you see what I mean); there is magic, a conflict between old a new gods, four POV characters, and a lot of flashback. I was a bit worried at the start that I'd ( Read more... )

Past form suggests if I wait until I've read all of them, I'll have forgotten what I thought about at least some of the first-read novels from the Hugo shortlist, so, in order of reading:

Network Effect, Martha Wells. Another Murderbot story! I really enjoy Murderbot - a page-turny adventure with a whole load of digs at capitalism and reflection on ( Read more... )

I've now watched (and reviewed!) all of these, so time to rank them:

1. The Old Guard
   
2. Palm Springs
   
3. Tenet
   
4. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
   
5. Soul
   
6. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
   

You may have seen the reviews I've written previously, but I would happily recommend the first two films if you've not seen them yet ( Read more... )