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OK, time for a fannish post! This is kind of a random mix of things -- stuff I've been watching on Netflix and YouTube, fic I've been reading, more fannish top 5 memes, and a notable absence of any sort of reading of actual books (I am creeping along to the finish line of Cyteen and still not reading anything else, because apparently this is who I ( Read more... )

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4. Steven Brust, Good Guys -- this is an urban fantasy standalone, and it's pretty good? But like everything by Brust that I read which is not Dragaera, it makes me realize that while I pretty much always end up respecting and appreciating the way Brust writes things -- the negative-space storytelling, the dialogue-heavy prose, characters who are ( Read more... )

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers on my flist! (Mine has involved trying to chivvy sick L into doing something -- anything! -- productive, and haranguing O to write his poetry project for English, which of course he's procrastinated on for ages.)

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29. Martha Wells, Element of Fire -- asthenie_vd write-up piqued my curiosity about this one, and then ( Read more... )

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I'm trying to hide from real life: L's big test is tonight, and I'm trying to walk the line between making sure she's focused and prepared and taking it seriously and... psyching her out past a point of usefulness. I'm not sure I'm doing a very good job of it. (I would be much less nervous if it were ME taking the test... XP)

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