Pro-tip: Maybe DON’T re-read The Lions of Al-Rassan, Guy Gavriel Kay’s saddest book, at the end of a very stressful semester, while on a plane, going to visit your sick father… …or you may, like me, end up overwhelmed and silently weeping for half the flight. Heartfelt thanks to the woman beside me who steadfastly […]
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Finished Victoria Goddard’s fantasy novel, The Hands of the Emperor. Slightly slow start, but then I fell into it. By the end I was teary. Very West Wing vibe, good people working hard to fix the world. Especially right now, it was exactly what I wanted to read. It’s a duology, so I’m diving into
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Heh. I just did the two SLF things that I was supposed to do by the end of 2024, come hell or high water. Well, at least one of them should probably have been done at least a week ago. And there’s one more frustrating bank thing that I’m going to have to try to
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Finished re-reading The Female Man. No other book has ever managed to make me angry while also laughing on every single page. An astonishing accomplishment, and I wait (impatiently, hopelessly) for the day when it’s no longer able to accomplish that, because its issues will no longer be relevant.
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I’m reading Maggie Smith’s memoir, _You Could Make this Place Beautiful_, tearing through it, really, which is probably the wrong approach, since it’s so poetic and each little vignette is dense — it should be savored. Maybe on the second reading. It’s about the end of a marriage, and it’s a little surreal reading it,
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Fun start to the morning — recorded a Vegan Serendib-focused podcast interview for Foodie and the Beast, a DC-based food industry show with Nycci Safier Nellis. They cover food and beverages, along with all kinds of other interesting things — the show I was on had someone talking about the health benefits of taking algae
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It’s a little strange, reading Sugi Ganeshananthan‘s new novel, _Brotherless Night_, while I’m deliberately spending a month cooking Sri Lankan food every day. Strange, but also right, to read her book with the memory of milk rice and pol sambol still lingering on my tongue. This passage, from the first chapter, describes Jaffna market, which
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Okay, it’s been a very long day, but now I get to reward myself with Sugi Ganeshananthan‘s new novel, _Brotherless Night_, which launched today! CONGRATS, SUGI! We’re all super proud of you!!! I am tucking myself up in bed, congratulating myself for remembering to post on launch day (with a whole 8 minutes to go)
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Has everyone read Sheldon’s “The Screwfly Solution”? You should. I don’t know why it isn’t taught along with “The Lottery” and other short story classics. Especially today, I would like everyone to read it. Except that I’m not sure it’s available to read legally online anymore, since SciFiction isn’t up anymore. But it’s available as
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Whew. I have very belatedly spent the last 90 minutes filling out my ChiCon program survey. I somehow missed the original e-mail, apologies to the ChiCon programming staff for my tardiness! We’ll see if they put me on anything. Plan for today — I tired the kids out a little yesterday, so taking it easier
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