After a slight drought in the month of March, I believe that the readathon kick-started my reading, and I am now ticking along very nicely once more. I actually have news to report! (Stop by Book Date to see what other folks are reading.) What I Read Last Week: A bunch of stuff! I finished up Han Kang’s The White Book, which was strange and beautiful as translated by Deborah Smith. A favorite line: A person who had met the same fate as that city. Who had at once time died or been destroyed. Who had painstakingly rebuilt themselves on…
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The new development for 2019 is that time has no meaning and there is no such thing as a month of reading short fiction, and therefore I can never say what short fiction reads were the best of that month, because that set of words make no sense under the new world order. NO MORE MONTHS. Erm, but actually, work just got busy, and I fell behind in my short fiction reading. SORRY. Please accept instead this very belated post plus a link to info about the Hugo nominees for this year. I, a short-fiction-reading person, have read five of…
Leave a CommentHappy Readathon, if you are doing Readathon! I meant to post this an hour before Readathon started, but time got away from me and, well, here we are. I am just going to have to start a little late. Such, I fear, is life. In the meantime, have some links! A profile of Lindy West, on the occasion of the release of Shrill. How the internet is helping to preserve critically endangered languages. What is society really nostalgic for, when it talks about “going back” to an era of healthy, home-cooked meals? The reality TV industry isn’t providing adequate mental…
Leave a CommentHappy April! I have a belated March YA Agenda column up at Lady Business today — go check it out!
Leave a CommentSpringtime pollen is sapping both our brains, but fortunately this podcast was never very serious to start with, and we’re hoping you won’t notice. We do “hoping you won’t notice a thing” by loudly and repeatedly talking about the thing. Our transparency is part of our charm, we dearly hope. This podcast, we’re chatting about some of the oldest and newest books we possess, and then Whiskey Jenny breaks her Helen Oyeyemi tie by falling in total love with Gingerbread. (Yay!) You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you…
Leave a CommentIn the year of our Lord 2017 (of unfond memory), I read these two stories about sweet little bots doing their best, and it launched me into a new state of being in which I read short fiction so much that I have had to commission a logo about it. The main one, admittedly, was “Fandom for Robots,” but a very close second was Suzanne Palmer’s very sweet “The Secret Life of Bots.” So it was with great pleasure that I learned she has her debut novel out this year: Finder! Fergus Ferguson is a finder, and he’s been tasked…
Leave a CommentMmm, this Wednesday y’all all get to experience one of my favorite things about Whiskey Jenny, which is how susceptible she is to advertising. When we see a commercial for Oreos she goes “wow I could really go for an Oreo” and when we read a book about living in a prank-filled super-broed-out polar prison, she goes “maybe I should get a job in Antarctica.” It’s very admirable because she is open to new experiences, but oh my God, don’t get a job in Antarctica. IT SOUNDS AWFUL. This week we’re chatting about books and genres we’ve changed our minds…
Leave a CommentLook, before we get into anything else, here is a post about a lawsuit that hinges on whether this one romance author invented the omegaverse. It’s important to know that she did not. This case gives me pure joy. I wish every day could contain an omegaverse lawsuit. This piece on Netflix password-sharing is incredible, but also, it has such a good update at the end. Adam Serwer on the Jussie Smollett mess and the history of hate crime hoaxes. Zak Cheney-Rice on what this case does and doesn’t mean. The knitting community is grappling with racism. Carrie Ann Lucas,…
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