'books' Category
unspoilery comments on I Shall Wear Midnight
I do not think Terry Pratchett has a good handle on what his Alzheimers disease will do next. The reason I say that is because of the remarkable balance he’s struck here: if we never get another Tiffany Aching book again, then this is a very grand finale, with some extremely interesting visits from people [...]
I Shall Wear Midnight!!!
There are sometimes advantages to being in Europe. I just bought Terry Pratchett’s latest Tiffany Aching book, I Shall Wear Midnight – which won’t be released in the US until September 29. Ahem. neener (You could of course counter with all the movies that come out earlier in the US, but I don’t really care [...]
three annoyances and one discovery to make it all better
Rather annoying: a couple of poems I submitted to a new venue managed to get themselves lost, and there was no way for me to know that before learning that the lineup for the first issue was closed. To be clear, I’m not annoyed at the editor (who searched her mailbox promptly as soon as [...]
book thoughts
1. I would have gotten around to reading Sarah Addison Allen’s Garden Spells a lot sooner if I’d known how strongly it would remind me of Mockingbird. No, not Mockingjay, Mockingbird, the one by Sean Stewart. Only it’s a bit cheerier and only the house (well the garden really) is a character, not the whole [...]
facing a whole weekend with nothing much I have to do and a whole Richard Thompson mix
Jaime’s post reminded me that there’s a lot of Richard Thompson on YouTube:. Just imagine hearing him play in your living room. Or someone’s living room, anyway: And if you click on that video and go over to YouTube, on the right side of the page you see the “Richard Thompson mix”. After 1952 VIncent [...]
epiphany
I have been stupid and am now slightly less so. A recent software upgrade to the Kindle means that you can now group books into folders, instead of just having one long list. So when I got that upgrade, I went through and sorted my e-books by genre, on the theory that if I’m trying [...]
pleasant things I have learned from Facebook
It turns out that not one but two people I went to school with are published authors. June Portnoy, with whom I was in junior high, high school, and youth groups, has just published her first book, The Marriage Epidemic about a woman who is determined to get married because everyone else is doing it. [...]
update, on the usual topics
Travel, rowing, knitting, clothes, books … check. Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve written anything. Oregon was good; I’d forgotten how beautiful the drive along I-5 north of Ted’s hometown is. It reminds me of the scenery in Tasmania. we got to spend time with the in-laws and even with both of Ted’s [...]
Review: The Red Pyramid: Book 1 of the Kane Chronicles, by Rick Riordan
Short version: I approve. More words: My biggest worry was that this would be a recasting of the Percy Jackson books only with Egyptian gods instead of Greek ones – I love those (no, I didn’t see the movie) but y’know, the world already has that series. I think he’s carried it off, though; this [...]
something is wrong on the- er, in a book!
So, what I said about how much I liked Nick of Time? The sequel, Time Pirate has officially pissed me off only 18% of the way though the book (reading on Kindle, I don’t have page numbers). Nick, who is twelve, has just asked his father, Angus, to teach him to fly. Angus was an [...]