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Rapid Fire TV Reviews

Quick TV / movie notes (avoiding spoilers, please avoid spoilers in comments): – Age of Adaline (Netflix) – romance with magical (pseudo-science) concept — there’s a woman who stops aging at 29. Well-written, I enjoyed it, although there’s a twist halfway through that threw me for a bit of a loop. No spoilers. Blake Lively […]

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Beautiful Bookmarks

Look what arrived in the mail today — the beautiful bookmarks Margaret Treanor Frey designed for the SLF, with inspirational writing quotes! If you come to one of our events (like, oh, the Deep Dish reading at the Bookcellar in Chicago TOMORROW), you can collect the whole set. Free! (We might also have mugs for

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My ChiCon Schedule

Hey, folks. Here’s my ChiCon schedule. If you’re a friend attending (whether or not you’re on programming), would love to know you’re coming! I’m planning to mostly hang in the bar, whenever I’m not scheduled, per usual… ***** • Thursday, 9/1, 10 a.m. — Libraries in SFF — Airmeet 1 (which I assume means virtual)

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Search for Brightness

I heard the news about the attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday, that he’d been giving a reading at a peaceful literary event, and a young man rushed up on stage and stabbed him multiple times, including in the neck. When I first read the news, Rushdie was still in surgery, and it wasn’t clear if

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On Panic

Here’s part two of the ADHD thing I promised yesterday — I want to talk about panic. To do that, though, I need to take a few steps back, I think. Keep in mind that I’m not a doctor, nor have I studied this extensively as a layperson; this is just based on what I’ve

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Commending to Your Attention

Finished reading the Hugo nominees for Best Novelette. The nominees are: • “Bots of the Lost Ark”, by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld, Jun 2021) • “Colors of the Immortal Palette”, by Caroline M. Yoachim (Uncanny Magazine, Mar/Apr 2021) • L’Esprit de L’Escalier, by Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom) • “O2 Arena”, by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Galaxy’s Edge,

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Radicalizing Her

I’m taking some time this morning to read a new book by Nimmi Gowrinathan, _Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence_. It’s beautifully written, which isn’t something I expect in an academic book, to be honest — she uses a lot of the techniques of creative nonfiction to make for engrossing engagement with the material. She’s

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