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Vicky Bliss PSA

Laughter of Dead Kings, the new Vicky Bliss mystery, is out this week.

Back to work. Frantically busy. First week of school. GAH.

Olympic stuff

How much do I love Shawn Johnson for using the August Rush soundtrack (“August’s Rhapsody”) for her floor exercise music? Lots and lots and lots.

And then they had to spend ten minutes on Bush. Who can’t even pronounce…

Crack for English majors, Elizabethan edition: Ink and Steel

I am madly in love with a book (other than the one I’m writing): Elizabeth Bear’s Ink and Steel. It’s actually the first half of what was once one long book; here’s the other half. I’m doling…

Breaking Dawn thoughts

A) That was sooooo not the book I wanted. Ugh. And blech. I want that four and a half hours of my life back.

B) I need brain bleach now.

C) These recaps are fucking hysterical.

Saturday

My husband, who does not read for fun, snatched The Watchmen from me when it arrived in the mail today and has been ensconced on the couch with it for the last two and a half hours. Guess I’ll be…

A quick book note

I’ve been in a pissy mood all day for no good reason. Just now I picked up Robin Benway’s Audrey, Wait!, which has been on the TBR pile since I heard it compared to Nick and Norah’s Infinite…

On the (nick)naming of characters

Halfway-plus through Sherwood Smith’s delightful Inda, I must pause and bitch: DAW, why O why did you not include the character list in the published book? Because, Christ on a crutch! In addition to the usual firstname-lastname thing,…

A bookish day

Today is a good day. Ink & Steel is out. I think Bear was still working on this when I began reading her LJ, because this was the first thing of hers I remember wanting to read.…

Other writers are crazy

Other writers are crazy. (Update: Let us count the ways.)

There is not enough “shiny” in the ‘verse

Steven Brust has posted his Firefly novel online under a Creative Commons license.

ETA: A bit of backstory on how this came about, from a 2006 con report.

Quick reviews

Found Iron Kissed on the shelf at B&N today, a week early, and promptly devoured it. This series just keeps getting better — as far as I’m concerned, it sits at the top of the urban fantasy/paranormal romance heap.…

quickly….

So I haven’t posted much lately. Sorry about that. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s going on….

Michael finished his fall classes last week, did OK in both, and starts a minimester tomorrow, unless he can talk his advisor into…

Books

Empire of Ivory was better than Black Powder War, lots better, but I still don’t think the Temeraire series is living up to the promise of the first book. I am enjoying them, but I thought the first book…

Banned Books Week

It’s Banned Books Week! Other blogs are doing a great job of linking to and reviewing various banned books, so I’ll just take the opportunity to link to the Banned Books Bracelet, a gift I got from Lisa…

PSA

The fourth Temeraire book comes out today. Get thee to the bookstore!

(If you’re local, don’t bother with the Bryan Hasting’s. I just snapped up their last copy.)