I really enjoyed Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie and am enjoying Sword as well, even if it does have a lot about tea in it!

I am thinking of an Raadch-related costume for Swancon, mainly because of the jewellery, or perhaps I can go as a porcelain tea set.

I haven't done a presentation on anything other than books at Swancon for years. I was inspired by Damian Magee last year and have already started preparing a panel for next year - Just Imagine: costume in early SF films ( Read more... )

As part of my job, I try to keep up with what's being released in YA fic. Some novels I have read over the last few years that I would recommend include ( Read more... )

And that means wacky national costumes!

Miss USA!
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So many thoughts about Jo Walton's 'Among Others'. Loved it. It spoke so much to me and my own adolescence. We are contemporaries, born in the same year, but at opposite ends of the earth. Her narrator and main character, Mor, reads and loves many of the same books I loved at the sae time. Like Mor (and Walton, according to what I read), I too felt ( Read more... )

Some of my students and a work colleague have nominated me for Australia's favourite librarian. My name will soon be on this list. http://www.alia.org.au/ausfavlibrarian/Read more... )

I have a few books on the go or have just finished them. Some brief notes ( Read more... )

Bigjobbies and I celebrate 22 years of marriage today. Smoochies, darling. Love you. Blinky made us cards and gifts. She was horrified that we hadn't got each other anything.

Hilarious St Augustine fan fic. Loved it. Big ups to emma_in_oz for the rec. http://archiveofourown.org/works/602741/chapters/1086578?show_comments=true#comment_1977096

Happy new year y'all. Back from great holiday with the in-laws in Busselton. Only took 6 hours to get home - normally a 3 hr trip.

Am watching Edinburgh Military Tattoo on tele. Have turned into my mother.