We are back home. I'm catching up on ~3.5 weeks of comments, some going back to my birthday, so don't be surprised if I respond to some very old comments or comment on some old posts. (I'm definitely not commenting on everything, and doing it haphazardly, and also not sure how long the backlog will take, so, like, bear with me ( Read more... )

I've read (and watched) a few things and I should really write down my thoughts about them before I completely forget them.

7. Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog -- this is a collection of fairy tales set in the modern world, each one riffing on a specific tale. I've liked Kelly Link's other short fiction and was curious to see how this approach ( Read more... )

Taskmaster series 15 finale -- ( spoilers! )

Yes, this book came out less than 24 hours ago and yes I'm insane. Surely that's not news.

6. Steven Brust, Tsalmoth -- right, the book I've been waiting for since October 2017, when Vallista came out (don't get me wrong, BoMV was a great way to break up the nearly 5 years without a Vlad book, but it's definitely not the same). My Kindle copy ( Read more... )

Yeah, so, clearly reading isn't happening this year either. I don't know what the problem is, really, because I don't think it's narrative burnout like last year and 2020 -- and I'm enjoying talking ABOUT fiction, I'm just not reading hardly any. But I did finish a Vlad Taltos book, which I was planning to do in preparation for Tsalmoth (IMMINENT ( Read more... )

I read a thing! Two things, even!

2. Deadly Ever After by Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel (RoL GN #10) -- joins The Fey and the Furious as an emminently skippable outing, at least for my interests. I preorder these books so I don't forget about them, and when this one arrived, I read through the first chapter and then set it aside with nothing ( Read more... )

Left to my own devices, I'm continuing to watch things (and do sudoku) instead of doing anything more productive:

Taskmaster Australia (I keep writing it out in full because "Taskmaster AU" just makes me think of the AU ideas where Hugh or Ed are a serial killer or Victoria is an android XD), episode 3: Hmm, not as fun as the previous one, IMO, ( Read more... )

Thank you for the good thoughts for my grandfather <33 He made it through surgery OK, but recovery is being tricky, so he's still in hospital and probably will be for a while. So meanwhile I'm focusing on nicely escapist things, like:

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Taskmaster Australia, episode 2 -- I liked the first episode OK, but this one was actually quite good! I ( Read more... )

Cool maybe-news via yhlee: Stephen Colbert is apparently involved in a planned adaptaion of Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber. Which, man, now there's a series crying out for a big budget adaptation. This certainly seems at an early enough stage that it may never happen, like so many series I was intrigued by before this ( Read more... )

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