Today's Decameron story is by Max Gladstone, a science fiction piece. Don't miss the frame tale at the end of each, which reflects back to Jo Walton's new book, coming out sometime this spring.

For today I want to post something I rarely do, a poem, then the story behind this poem appearing here.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it ( Read more... )

Today's Decameron story is a chapter one from Rosemary Kirstein's sixth book in her series. )I wondered what they would use to follow up Leah Bobet's astonishing story yesterday ( Read more... )

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Today's Decameron story.

More from the homeschoolers, including how to test if your reading-resistant kid might have a reading disability. (Which schools sometimes don't get around to. Especially with boys. Easier to pop them in time out/detention.)

From Shirebound over at LJ, A dog and its kitten (or, a kitten and its dog). The video shows the ( Read more... )

When I first immerse into a book I am no longer I, but ego dissolves away into an eye, absorbed completely into the world of the story, remerging at the end with that snap of the spiritual umbilicus. I use birth imagery here in part because the emotions seem to be akin in a way; the joy that comes of an intensely immersive book whelms that painful ( Read more... )

A bunch of people, including Maya Chhabra, Lauren Schiller, and Jo Walton, have teamed up to start the Decameron Project. Various authors are putting up stories and chapters of forthcoming books within a frame that Jo has written.

Though everyone can read for free, it's a Patreon project, the money going to a good cause. Buy-in as low as a buck.

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Via Steepholm at LiveJournal, a wonderful vid made with Lucy Boston at the Norman house she restored. It was full of people, she said, and more emerged as they cleared the detritus. (Steepholm was lucky enough to get to stay in that house. She talks about it here.)

This entry was originally posted at https://sartorias.dreamwidth.org/1023048.html. ( Read more... )

An Australian writer friend, Gillian Polack, has been doing Women's History Month for years. This year she asked me for a post and I provided one on formative historical fiction by women ( Read more... )

. . . and on education generally.

The bloggers here are a couple who chose homeschooling--in fact they were homeschooled. (I provided a class for one of their sibs, now a professional writer).

Their sensible approach covers not only homeschooling for various ages, but also takes a look at the purpose of education ( Read more... )