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Goodbye, LiveJournal
It's time to disconnect permanently from LiveJournal, after thirteen years. I thought about deleting my LJ, but I hate leaving broken links and lost archives. Realistically, I don't have a way to remove all of my data from LJ's servers. Deleting my journal would only make the data invisible to me while still existing in backups somewhere. What I'm ( Read more... ) -
"The thing I’d been turning over in my head was theatre"
I subscribed to the New Yorker recently, as I'd been running out of free accesses regularly and the introductory subscription price was ridiculously cheap with a .edu email address. One of the advantages (or disadvantages, depending on how much work I should be doing instead of reading articles) is that the New Yorker sends me emails with links to ( Read more... ) -
Media Review: Tremontaine
Second review of the day, now with significantly less queer erasure!
Serial Box's Tremontaine (a serial novel by Ellen Kushner, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Malinda Lo, Joel Derfner, Racheline Maltese, and Patty Bryant) has a delightful premise and terrific setup. In the nameless city of Swordspoint and Privilege of the Sword, perhaps fifteen or twenty ( Read more... ) -
Book Review: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen - Lois McMaster Bujold: 3/5 stars (enjoyable but slight ( Read more... ) -
"Relevant to my interests" doesn't begin to cover it
I suppose Daughter of Mystery, by Heather Rose Jones, could have been more precisely targeted to my reading tastes. All Jones would have had to change is... um... well...
See, Daughter of Mystery is (1) a Ruritanian romance (2) about two women, one of whom is (3) a swordswoman with mysterious antecedents who generally wears men's clothing and the ( Read more... ) -
Hugo Nominations, 2015
Since I got a supporting membership to last year's Worldcon, even though I never got around to voting for the 2014 Hugos, I have nomination powers this year. I intend to use these powers for good. Here are my nominations as they stand currently. Does anyone have additional suggestions? What have I forgotten? Which fan writers were on fire this year ( Read more... ) -
A sad tale's best for winter; I have one / Of sprites and goblins
Seanan McGuire's The Winter Long (October Daye, volume 8) is coming out next week, so it's time to start making guesses about which mysteries the book will solve. I keep seeing dark hints that this book is a major transition in Toby's story. I'm really looking forward to finding out what's going to change this time.
( Loose ends, mysteries, speculation; contains major, book-destroying spoilers for all seven previous volumes ) -
Review: Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor
I have been trying to write a review of Katherine Addison (Sarah Monette)'s new novel, The Goblin Emperor, and it's coming out in clichés: A beautiful book, a moving book, a book about loyalty and building cross-cultural bridges and making a place for oneself in a terrifying world, a book I did not want to end.
( More detailed comments behind the cut. Some general, unspecific spoilers for Goblin Emperor; some references to plot and character developments in Doctrine of Labyrinths. ) -
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Today I've been reading assorted seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature in order to plan a class. This is always entertaining and educational. I shall present, for your entertainment, one of the poems I found in my search. I give you "Nestor", or "Upon the Drinking of a Bowl," by the notorious seventeenth-century drunkard and ( Read more... )