Things Done Instead of Blogging

[leahbobet]

I appear not to have blogged in a week. It seems I really didn't have that much to say. >.>

Stuff I've been doing instead:

1) I'm the new support person for the OWW, filling ccfinlay's prodigious shoes*. This means moderating the writing list, answering support questions, and doing a grab bag of other stuff I'm just getting started on. There being some backlog, this has eaten a bit of time.

So far, I'm enjoying it. It's good work and I'm glad I put my name in for the job.


2) Essays. 'Nuff said.


3) My mommy, being a nice mommy (and no, she doesn't read this LJ, so I say that because I think so, not out of obligation) took me for a spa half-day on Sunday. Among other things, I was persuaded to get the manicure/pedicure bit in A Colour That Isn't Blue.

(I like blue nailpolish. It is more punk-rock than other nailpolish, and if you have to be painting your nails, punk-rock is a good way to be.)

Instead I got this:

I think this colour is rightfully called Death Plum. It makes me feel like a sexual predator. I see it on my little toes and think perhaps I'm not seducing and destroying enough hapless innocent men.


4) List of books I've read since the last time I did a Book Reports post:

#64 -- Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible
#65 -- Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief
#66 -- Elizabeth Bear, Undertow
#67 -- Sean Stewart, Resurrection Man
#68 -- Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three
#69 -- Brett Savory, In and Down
not-#70 -- T. A. Pratt, Blood Engines
#70 -- Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary
#71 -- Robert Charles Wilson, Blind Lake
#72 -- Nick Sagan, Idlewild
#73 -- Charles Stross, Halting State
#74 -- Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
#75 -- Emma Bull, Territory
#76 -- Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
#77 -- Liz Williams, The Demon and The City
#78 -- Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice
#79 -- Sharon Shinn, General Winston's Daughter
#80 -- Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road
#81 -- Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia
#82 -- Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia
#83 -- Tricia Sullivan, Maul
#84 -- M. John Harrison, Light
#85 -- Ellen Kushner, Swordspoint
#86 -- Liz Williams, Precious Dragon
#87 -- Justine Larbalestier, Magic's Child
#88 -- Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer
#89 -- Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree
#90 -- Guy Gavriel Kay, The Wandering Fire
#91 -- Guy Gavriel Kay, The Darkest Road

If anyone wants to hear about any of those, you may have to ask. Because I am not gonna catch up on a book report backlog that big.


5) Braindeath. Actually, most of what I've been doing this week is having braindeath.


Ba-da-bee-ba-da-beeee--- That's all folks!

*You thought I was gonna say 'pants', didn't you? Feelthy!

Comments

[timprov.livejournal.com]

I'm curious as to your reaction to Swordspoint. I just finished The Privilege of the Sword and so my head's kind of in that world.

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

I'd be particularly interested in hearing about #64, not-#70, and #77, if you're inclined to report about them.

I remember reading Blind Lake and feeling a bit puzzled, so I'd love to hear what you think of that one as well.

[veejane.livejournal.com]

I can only endorse blue nail polish if it is sparkly blue. (I also don't do fingernails, ever, because I notice chips in it immediately and then have to take it all off.) I did, however, have a bottle of a dark chocolatey red called "vixen" for awhile there.

My most recent color has been sparkly purple, sometimes with dots of milky lavender painted on top. Not that I ever don't wear socks, this season. But I secretly have painted toenails.

[delta-november.livejournal.com]

When you were reading #89 through #91, did you not hear a little voice in the back of your head crying "Guns. Bring guns. They're easy to buy in 1980s Canada and they kill orcs but good."

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

What did you think about Fionavar? I read them last year or so, hoping to be stunned into worshipfulness... But mostly was just, "Hm, okay." :S

[kelljones.livejournal.com]

How was the Sharon Shinn -- or, what else was it like? I loved her Summers at Castle Auburn and The Shape-Changer's Wife, liked but didn't love her Safe-Keeper's Secret, and haven't read the rest.

(Is this a new(ish) trope -- the teens-in-conquered-lands fantasies? I'm thinking The Blue Sword, A Great and Terrible Beauty, maybe Flora Segunda -- seems like there are others... They all do interesting things with it, just trying to decide if there's a pattern... Or, maybe the "new" is just that the conquered lands seem more closely related to familiar historical examples...)

(Have exceeded my ellipses quota, must stop now.)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I see it on my little toes and think perhaps I'm not seducing and destroying enough hapless innocent men.

There aren't enough hapless innocent men. Damn it.

[monkeyman.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed Undertow. Not an all-time favourite but a damn good book.

And I am looking forward to that Charles Stross when I can afford it. Glasshouse was a big step forward for my relationship with his books -- up until then, I thought he was a great writer, but I didn't really feel much for his characters.