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All the best - top 5 books and graphic novels of 2015
This was tough, especially where books were concerned, so I've bent the rules a little (hey, this is my journal, so no griping about that!) - all of the following are in no particular order...
Top 5 books:
1. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison - wonderful, beautifully-written with top notch world-building and characters who grow and learn as ( Read more... ) -
Oh, the humanity...
I can't believe it's December 6th already, what the hell ( Read more... ) -
Best books of the second half of the year
I posted here about the best books I'd read till then back in June, so I thought I'd do a follow-up post about what I've read since then which has also been good. In late December, I'll probably do a best books of the year post but expect a number of these to make a good showing then as well:
- California Bones - Greg Van Eekhout
- The Broken ( Read more... )
- California Bones - Greg Van Eekhout
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Getting some idea about 2016...
Finally met with my boss so now I know what I'm going to be doing next year, when my new teaching contract kicks in. I've been asked to do evaluations for a particular course that's currently running for the first time (which gives students an IT, ESOL and numeracy qualification) and then take over teaching the ESOL part of it when the next cohort ( Read more... ) -
On separating the creator from the created (in other words, HP Lovecraft made me do this...)
It's been an interesting couple of years to be a fan of SFF, that's for sure. The latest kerfuffle is over the subject of an award, given by the World Fantasy Con every year, which currently is in the shape of what I can only describe as a caricature of the fizzog of said HP Lovecraft. I'm not going to post a pic here, because it's pretty awful, ( Read more... ) -
Back to the future, or something...
This afternoon, I spent a bit of time uploading one of my old SG-1 stories to AO3, which was pretty appropriate as it was my AU novel 'Benedictus', which I wrote for NaNoWriMo back in 2005 or 2006. I don't usually re-read stuff, particularly things that are that old and for a fandom I'm no longer in, but I thought it holds up pretty well and it's ( Read more... ) -
Getting myself organised...
Just got the letter offering me my classes for January onwards and apparently I will be teaching every morning, Monday-Friday, as a minimum. So that basically means I need to get myself organised and down to London this side of Christmas as there are currently a number of fantastic-looking exhibitions on and the thought of missing them/struggling ( Read more... ) -
Some good news, at last!
A little while ago, I got an email to say that I had been successful at interview yesterday (god, was it only yesterday afternoon?) and am going to be offered a contract. *\o ( Read more... ) -
The belated TV post I've been threatening to do...
September is the start of the new TV season for most things so it's been traditional for me to post something around then about what I'm watching, what didn't survive the end of last season and what I'm looking forward to - yep, I know we're in mid-October but there's still new stuff coming so whatever... Spoilers likely in the comments, opinions ( Read more... ) -
Mid-October already, how did that happen?
It really is downhill and no brakes till the end of the year, isn't it? It seems like only five minutes ago I thought I knew what I was doing and then it all went to pot - I've just started back working 4 hours a day on a temporary basis at the place I worked at in August, doing data entry. And trust me, 4 hours of that is more than enough! The ( Read more... )