What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing. But not because I'm not trying! I just didn't finish in time!

What I'm Reading Now

No comics yet, but I am in the middle of reading Network Effect (the new Murderbot novel by Martha Wells, which just came out the other day) and it is, as you might expect, really good. My favorite line so far:

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So if you happen to be in a fandom owned by Disney (say, uh, Star Wars or Marvel), you might be interested to know that Disney is getting in on the fabric face mask action and releasing officially licensed masks (in several different sizes so we can all wear them, not just children) of the usual Disney characters as well as a Pixar set, a Star Wars ( Read more... )

What I Just Finished Reading

Lyn Gala, Expeditions, Estimation, and Other Dangerous Pastimes: Look, sometimes you just want to read book number four in an m/m science fiction series where a human linguist and his giant lizard alien boyfriend have a bunch of kinky xeno sex and occasionally encounter new lifeforms and nothing all that bad happens to ( Read more... )

The most exciting thing that has happened today: the recycling company replaced our recycling bins with a small dumpster.

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What I Just Finished Reading

Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer: This is historical fantasy but it's the kind of fantasy that I suspect wants to be called "magical realism" instead because it's clearly aiming for a literary audience even though, like, this is a guy who also writes comic books. Anyway, it's about a slave in Virginia who finds his way ( Read more... )

Everyone else is posting about this, so I probably should too:

If you've ever been interested in reading Martha Wells' Murderbot novellas, Tor is giving all four of them away for free as ebooks, one per day, starting today with the first one. Just give them your email address and get an ebook or four. Get four ( Read more... )

Once again, no words to report.

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What I Just Finished Reading

Susannah Cahalan, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness: While a lot of this felt like reading an advertisement for her previous book, Brain on Fire, which I have not read, I do think she does a convincing job showing that the man who wrote the famous article "On Being Sane ( Read more... )

1. Hey Robot. Technically, we haven't been playing this recently, but I was planning to, and it's not officially out yet, but we have the print and play version and it's been pretty fun. It's basically Taboo/Password but with a Google Home or Amazon Echo (yes, you have to already own one). The goal is to get your smart speaker to say a given word ( Read more... )

Because why not, it's not like I'm writing fic or doing anything productive anyway, I decided to see if I could crate-train the dog. We got a crate when we got her and she seemed willing enough to go in the crate, so I went "okay, fine" and then basically didn't use it ( Read more... )