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Chicago!
For our 10th wedding anniversary, I wanted to take a trip. I've never been to Chicago (except for a couple of hours during an unexpectedly long layover, which doesn't count) and we have several friends who live there, so long weekend for us!
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Book Reviews
#72: Pyramids by Terry Pratchett. 4. While not Pratchett's best work, still loads of fun. The Assassin's Guild final exam is most likely the best part. It's funny--I'm not sure how I missed this one, but I'm pretty certain I never read it. (Also, dear lord, the cover--apparently the artist's idea of an Egyptian prince who's studied to be an ( Read more... ) -
All the animals in the zoo are jumping up and down for you
ARR and I took a mega-adventure today, up to the Bronx Zoo, sans stroller. Let me put it this way--my legs are killing me, and ARR went to bed half an hour early without a peep ( Read more... ) -
Apple picking
We took ARR apple picking yesterday. Actually, the place we went, Alstede Farms, has everything picking. At the moment, they've got like 15 varieties of apples, pumpkins, multiple squashes, squash blossoms, sunflowers, eggplant, tomatoes, raspberries, potatoes, peppers, currants, and I think the tail ends of one or two other vegetables. I also saw ( Read more... ) -
More book reviews
#66: The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross. 4. Love the Laundry Files in general. The combination of dry bureaucratic humor and terrors from beyond just really works for me. This one's structure is somewhat odd, as he shifts away from first person here and there, not always to great effect. But overall, it works, and I'm enjoying Bob's increasing ( Read more... ) -
Encouraging/discouraging
I just got the sweetest note from an agent turning my book down. Said it sounded "incredibly good." Apparently he just sold an airship trilogy by someone else after a really long search, and he's all airshipped out. He closed by asking me if I was getting lots of agents asking to read, and saying he'd think I would be and that he was rooting for me ( Read more... ) -
Depressing
It was a fairly bad week overall, with some critical software going belly up and a lot of mess involving translations. But it was just capped off with a rejection from an agent who had requested a full manuscript and I'd been particularly hopeful about. She really liked the style, but thinks steampunk in general is a hard sell right now, and the ( Read more... ) -
City kid
ARR and I hit the High Line this morning. It was pretty dismal out--cold and cloudy, but Chuckro's been suffering a cold and I wanted to ARR out of the house. They were doing their last family program of the year. Total hit--they started with a solid 45 minutes of storytime with a New York Public Library librarian, followed by multiple crafts. ( Read more... ) -
Book reviews
I've very much fallen behind this year. I suspect I'm not making it to 100.
#58 Deadline by Mira Grant. 4. When it became clear at the end of the first novel of this trilogy that the second book was going to be in the voice of a different character, I wasn't really sure I wanted to continue. I liked Georgia; I was not a huge fan of Shaun. ( Read more... ) -
Fanfic
ARR's latest obsession is PJ Masks, a cartoon about three kids whose pajamas give them superpowers. They have their small Rogue's Gallery to fight, of course ( Read more... )