Not a Stone Tablet
The wonderful Jedediah Berry has posted an enthusiastic recommendation for Scrivener over at the LCRW blog. Color me convinced; the snapshot feature alone seems worth its weight in gold.
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Thursday Hangovers
- Jules reviews Tim Lott’s Fearless and I can’t help but agree with her assessment. I just finished it and was quite disappointed.
- Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson. Wow.
- The Boston Globe article about diversity in SF has led to some interesting posts, as anticipated. Scalzi talked about the approach he takes in his own work, and Kameron Hurley responded with some thoughts on the perils of writing colorblind.
- Scrivener — yes or no?
- A profile of Salvador Plascencia, a writer whose next work I can’t wait to see. (Via TEV.)
- Maud points to Hilary Mantel’s thoughts on Orpheus and Eurydice.
- Charles Simic to be named poet laureate today; this makes me very happy, despite that unfortunate piece he wrote about the South a few years ago. In addition to his poetry, obvs, I highly recommend seeking out his miscellany collections of essays and memoir. The Unemployed Fortune Teller and Orphan Factory are my faves.
- Is there anyone who isn’t loving Robert Olen Butler’s delicious e-mail meltdown? You know, besides Ted Turner.
- Colleen unveils the next big blogosphere event horizon, in which I’ll be participating again. Fun!
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Twin Cities Peeps
Continue to check in if you haven’t. Good thoughts to all of you and yours.
Updated: I believe I’ve heard from or about everyone. There’s also a check-in thread for skiffy types here.
Janey
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Which PLAIN Jane Are You? Main Jane |
| As the leader of the pack, you are always looking out for your friends and working to make your group pretty tight knit. |
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(Via the Lady Cecil!)
Tuesday Hangovers
- Howard Waldrop’s first guest blog entry is up over at LCRW.
- The lovely Karen Meisner reminds me that it’s the last day of the Strange Horizons fund drive. Make your tax deductible donations now.
- The mental floss blog collects some memorable LOLCats inspired by the story of Oscar the Death Kitty.
- Scalzi kicks off some interesting discussion on the downward trend in SFF short fiction market $$.
- Emily Colette Wilkinson offers some thoughts on Harry Potter and longevity over at The Millions (spoilers). And Harry fever inspires Gretchen Rubin to offer a list of her favorite children’s books.
- Jay Tomio is already considering his favorite reads of 2007.
- Ludlum may be dead, but the books keep on coming.
- Texas lake under attack by primordial fern. I heart this story. (Via Jenny.)
- The Boston Globe has an excellent piece on diversity and the scarcity of black writers in the SF community. (Via Bookninja.) David Anthony Durham is quoted: "In epic fantasy," says Durham, 38, whose novel is populated by a diverse crowd that includes blond warriors and olive-skinned beauties, "there is a lot of racism and sexism I don’t think the good people who are writing it are aware of." Yep.
Pre-Always Weekdom
And my post about Always is up at the LBC site. Always week kicks off next Monday.
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Animules
I would take pics but there are no batteries and I am lazy. Emma’s very "glad you’re home" mellow needy, but Puck (aka Baby Moon, or as my nephews christened him "Agent Fox") is all "where are you going? please don’t go away again!" and it’s hilarious and cute. Hemingway is a mix of the two, in full-on grabbing and punching as I walk by mode.
It is good to be home.
Monday Misc. & Hangovers
- Still catching up — but back to normalish tomorrow. Speaking of picture books, which we weren’t
, Christopher and I both greatly enjoyed Bret Bertholf’s The Long Gone Lonesome History of Country Music. The art’s perfectly suited to the topic and the writing is snappy; puzzling out who’s who is fun and you can even get your own country music nickname. Yeehaw. Unrelatedly, I also finally got around to The Dairy Queen sequel, The Off Season, and yep, it surpasses the orginal in pretty much every way and that’s saying something. Um, and one last thing: It’s LBC-a-palooza time again. Megan announced the news of Read This! pick Matthew Sharpe’s Jamestown today. I’ll be posting about Nicola Griffith‘s Always tomorrow and we’ll be discussing it starting next Monday. And that "we" definitely includes you, assuming you’ve read the book and/or have something to say about it or about Nicola’s work in general — just e-mail me or drop a comment if you want to participate; posting at your own site highly encouraged, but please point me to it so I can link from here and the LBC site. It’ll be fun. Big things planned, etcetera. Now to linksies. - Man, this Dark is Rising movie just gets worse and worse looking All The Time.
- On doping and sports in the NYT. (Via Justine.)
- How walkable is your neighborhood? (Via Ed.)
- More fabulous Julie Larios poems in Swink. I particularly like "What We Meant."
- NYC undercity explorers in the NYT. Makes me want to de-trunk my undercity novel and revamp it. But that’s just the middle of the current book talking. Some-other-day.
- The one and only Literaticat is answering questions. Lots of questions. (Start there, then just go to all the recent entries.)
- Fashionista has put the entire November 1992 issue of Sassy online. (Via.) It makes me happy.
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Home!
And almost R&Red back into a Person with Firing Neurons, courtesy of our lovely, leisurely time in Northampton.
PSA
Do not see the movie Sunshine. You won’t like it. It’s terrible. It’s stupid. It’s SO bad.
I say: "How? Why? So confused."
Kelly says: "It follows the exact plot of Event Horizon."
Gavin says: "This is the dumbest film ever made."
Christopher says: "Event Horizon is a stupid stupid movie, but comparing the two is a disservice to Event Horizon."
We are all in agreement here.
More Book Group.