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Aug. 3rd, 2009 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leahbobetI am still chopping away at my To Do List, with breaks to freak out about how unprepared I am to go to Montreal on Thursday morning. It's all good here in the Casa. :p
This means scraping the inbox again, and that means logging more reviews.
In the Clockwork Phoenix 2 corner we have dueling reviews at SF Site, one (mostly positive) from Amal El-Mohtar (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tithenai and one (mostly negative) from Mario Guslandi. The second doesn't specifically mention "Six", but tithenai's says:
"Parable of the Shower" is still inexplicably making its way around the internet, and has a rec fromkunenk, who I know not.
I do not know what I'm going to 1) wear or 2) read at Worldcon.
Back to work and freaking out!
This means scraping the inbox again, and that means logging more reviews.
In the Clockwork Phoenix 2 corner we have dueling reviews at SF Site, one (mostly positive) from Amal El-Mohtar (
tithenai and one (mostly negative) from Mario Guslandi. The second doesn't specifically mention "Six", but tithenai's says:Following smoothly from representations of friendship to representations of family, Leah Bobet's "Six" is the deeply affecting story of a sixth son in a household where the seventh is most valued:
"Six's name is really Charlie, but he's the devil's boy right through, and they've been calling him by the devil's number since he was old enough to walk. Sixth son of a seventh son: 'you're bad news,' the brothers' wives tell him..."
It's an excellent piece, beautifully voiced and crafted to lodge uncomfortably in your ribs.
"Parable of the Shower" is still inexplicably making its way around the internet, and has a rec from
kunenk, who I know not.I do not know what I'm going to 1) wear or 2) read at Worldcon.
Back to work and freaking out!
