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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …
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 …
My sister asked for an audiobook recommendation, something light for company with chores, that it’d be okay if the kids overheard, and I suggested Pratchett’s Night Watch books, and then I went to go get a list of them for her, and discovered that there was a little one-page short story in the series that …
I stayed up late reading last night, Annalee Newitz‘s _The Future of Another Timeline_, which I am simultaneously finding really compelling and beautifully written, and also somewhat hard to read, in the same way that Handmaid’s Tale is hard to read, because some things about how women and nonbinary folks are treated in this world …
