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2017 Hugo Nominees, Short Fiction
Spoilers abound! Novel comments to follow separately if/when I finish the nominees.
( Best Novella: Gailey, McGuire, Okorafor, Pinsker, Wells, Yang ) -
Book Log
Me, early 2017: I will be better about reading and writing about what I've read!
Me, November 2017: So that's going to be a 2018 goal, as well as a 2017 effort.
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine (Victoria Sweet) (2012): A memoir of practicing medicine at Laguna Honda Hospital, one of San Francisco's last ( Read more... ) -
Meanwhile Over At Dreamwidth
tl;dr I am no longer crossposting from Dreamwidth to LJ. Same username, same content. Debating deleting my journal over here, because 95% of the content is already over there. See you over at DW, folks. -
Rent! The 20th Anniversary Tour
I saw the Sunday matinee performance of Rent today, on the 20th Anniversary tour. I did not feel a great desire to see Rent in the '90s, but decided in the '00s I had been an idiot. Today I fixed that ( Read more... ) -
2016 Reading
I think it's time to admit I am never cleaning up any of the 2016 book log, post, and move on.
League of Dragons (2016) (Naomi Novik): The concluding novel in the Temeraire series. Napoleon is finally finished off, various disputes are disposed of, and Temeraire and Iskierka's egg hatches.
( On romance and Romance; characterization; and worldbuilding. ) -
Holiday Reading
Every Heart A Doorway (Seanan McGuire) (2016): My library's now offers multiple apps which support electronic audiobooks, and critically, the ability to change the readback speed.
Less than five minutes into Heart I said, "you have got to be kidding me," and kicked it up to 1.2x speed. This at least kept the narrative flowing fast enough the ( Read more... ) -
Wait For It
Highly relevant to my tiny fandom interests, exhibits one and two. We’re officially ready to start writing the actual Alliance Rising book, and along with it, we’re going to put Finity’s End into Closed-Circle. That’s a hundred or so years on…some of the same bunch. It's a little fuzzy which end of canon the new novel is set in, and I don't care, I ( Read more... ) -
Moving Day
Last night my landlord emailed that he wants his house back for an entirely legitimate owner move-in eviction. So my roommates and I are looking for another place to live. Send good vibes, and if you know someone renting out a 3 bed 1.5 bath inside San Francisco's city limits, for roughly market or a bit under, maybe put us in touch. Or a studio, ( Read more... ) -
Vacation Reading
I reread In the Garden of Iden (Kage Baker) (1997) in the run-up to vacation, because sometimes what you really need is some slapstick with tragedy. It's been... a decade? More than a decade? Since I originally read this, so I'd forgotten some of the set pieces: the "unicorn", the Christmas celebration, the dubious consequences of Sir Walter's deal ( Read more... )