I have been reading a LOT of YA lately, to the point that it's the first section I head for in Fully Booked. This hasn't been the case for 13 years--I got into YA as a genre in itself via lit-major friends (HAI GUYZ) and dropped off a little after we went our separate ways ( Read more... )

I tried reading Twilight but I just couldn't get into it. I've probably read Anne Rice and watched Angel and devoured vampiric literature (Underworld, Dragon Waiting, Lord of the Dead, even a Batman alternative storyline!) far too often to really appreciate Meyer's work. Also, how judgmental am I? I couldn't read her work without thinking of the ( Read more... )

Been sucking down books like summer cherries, especially the New York Review of Books series. Have read Wescott's The Pilgrim Hawk, a few bits off Borges' Labyrinths, James Wood's How Fiction Works, Schuyler's What's For Dinner?, Henry James' What Maisie Knew, and thanks to a lucky find at Oxfam and a special discount run on the Amazon marketplace ( Read more... )

I need a "OMG I am such a f*cking fangirl" icon...

Sci-Fi London was SO AWESOME.

Check out the pics on the Flickr site...Stormtroopers galore, Alien and Predator slash, plus Mel Brooks, China Mieville, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden and a Python or two...

Oh, and someone got caught reading on the job, heheh. I managed to read two of the AC ( Read more... )

Hey all, Happy New Year! Hope your Christmases were as full of food, presents and familial joy as possible ( Read more... )

On the 25th of this month Blackwell Books will be hosting this eventI signed up to staff it. :D ( Read more... )

Watching LJ erupt over the past few weeks I wondered why we're (and I include myself here) so violent about spoilers. Then I read the book, and I watched LJ erupt even more, and I took a couple of days to think about it, and...I formed a possibly unpopular opinion ( Read more... )

Some lovely things that are happening today ( Read more... )

One thing I realise I've neglected lately is the short-story anthology. I used to collect Year's Best avidly. I stopped when Terri Windling left the project--there was nothing I liked more than seeing "T.W." in an opening note in front of a truly transporting fantasy story. Admittedly Ellen Datlow knows how to choose the bone-chillers, but it was ( Read more... )

Made me some pasta today! Fusilli with tuna and mildly spicy Bolognese. It wasn't bad; not enough sauce, maybe. I can't be credited--it was my cousin's recipe ( Read more... )