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2013 Narrate Reading Lists
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A Story, and Two Questions
So this morning, I am running approximately eight minutes late. On Monday mornings, I seem to have trouble, first, getting out of bed and, then, getting out of the shower. Let's not analyze that ( Read more... ) -
2012 Narrate Reading Lists
As you might have come to expect, with a new Sirens, comes a new Narrate reading list. For those of you unfamiliar with the drill, each year, Narrate rolls out a reading list for both Sirens, its current conference about women in fantasy literature, and its in-development conference on young adult literature ( Read more... ) -
Book Review: Bleeding Violet and Slice of Cherry, by Dia Reeves
A few months ago, I was searching for female monster books to put on the 2011 Sirens reading list, and I stumbled across Dia Reeves's Bleeding Violet. Happily, authors have started to make the first chapters of books available on their websites, so I was able to take a sneak peek at Bleeding Violet (which was a very good thing because the cover of ( Read more... ) -
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I have so enjoyed everyone else's end-of-year book lists that I wanted to play!
( First, here are the books that I read this year, in chronological order. ) -
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This weekend I: missed a happy hour because I was still at work; went to a basketball game; got a box of energy-saving lighting accessories (e.g., light bulbs) at said basketball game (yeah, I don't know either); got home waaaaay too late; slept in waaaaay too long; mailed stuff; picked up boxes of books (and a birdhouse for grandma) from our ( Read more... ) -
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You know what I really love about my flist? That when someone posts with a subject line of "50K" or "100K" it could mean kilometers run or words written. Go, flist! -
2011 Narrate Reading Lists
Oh, people, it is that time again. You know, the time each year when I drag out the giant reading lists of ginormous doom and I post them and we all flail for a bit and then we read a million books. That time ( Read more... ) -
2011 Sirens
Hello!
Sirens, I'm afraid, has come and gone for the year. The boxes of audio-visual equipment are back in my garage, the leftover merchandise has been audited, my attendees and staff have gone home -- and with tomorrow comes financial auditing. Boo.
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Mockingjay!
Once upon a time, there was a book called The Hunger Games. Somewhat randomly, Marbles brought an ARC home with her from BEA, said everyone was talking about it, read it, and said, “OMG, you have to read this, you are going to love it ( Read more... )