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Beef and Brain Injury: A Links Round-Up

These are some links! Have an amazing weekend! Soleil Ho weighs in on Beef, Asian American representation, and the really awful things David Choe said he did but now says he didn’t do. “It dies with us.” Linda Condega on keeping the memories, but not the nostalgia. Wesley Lowery still wants the journalism industry to be better. Here’s what to expect from TV shows if the writers’ strike continues. Stand with the WGA! Support labor! The studios are greedy jerks who don’t care about making good art! The research is in (again): Knowing the end doesn’t stop you from enjoying…

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Cassandra Khaw Books, Ranked By How Clearly I Understood Why the Characters Were Eating Human Flesh; or, Gobbets Tomorrow and Gobbets Yesterday But Never Jam Today

Nothing but Blackened Teeth Surprising nobody, this is my favorite Cassandra Khaw book. I love haunted house stories, and I love it when a bunch of people are stuck in an enclosed space together and all the tensions among them rise to the fore. It’s even better if they then maybe kill each other. Lol! Friendship! The house is haunted by the ghost of a bride whose husband died on the way to the wedding. She asked the guests to bury her alive in the foundation of the house, and ever since then they buried a new girl in the…

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Book Pairing: Bad Cree and Greywaren

My new thing for 2023 is that I’m going to do book pairings.1 I have been meaning to do this for ages, because it always seems like I have pairs of books on my TBR list with thematic resonances or similar premises, and I always intend to (but don’t) read them both together to see what that gets me. Well, 2023 is my year! I may not be doing much of anything this year, and my main accomplishment for the year may be that I survived it and bought a Steam Deck2 but BY GOD, I am going to pair…

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I finally remembered to do this: A links round-up

I mean, look, guys. At least Elon Musk lost thirteen billion dollars yesterday. Is that money fake? Yes. Will he probably get it all back pretty quickly? Yes. Is money made up? Y E S. Nevertheless, I am basking in his suffering. And like, the $13 billion dollars is actually probably more impactful, but what feels more satisfying to me is that he’s paying for Stephen King and LeBron James to have blue check marks they don’t want. That is just. That’s. It’s like, my guy, you don’t have to keep inventing new Ls to take. You could just do…

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Lies, Conspiracies, and Scandalous Emails: A Links Round-Up

Oops, I let many years pass since my last links round-up, and you have all been deprived of the best links on all the internet. I am sorry for this long hiatus, and I bring you here what I hope is a particularly stellar collection of links. As we head into Mardi Gras weekend, I hope your personal bon temps are roulezing away! Catch some beads! Drink some beer! Here’s the definitive update on the indie romance writer who faked her own death. It is, perhaps not unexpectedly, a pretty sad story. On the resemblance of dinner to a magic…

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Book Previews and Other Diversions: A Links Round-Up

I hope y’all are having a happy New Year so far! I have not yet made a determination about how mine is going, as I find there have been pros and cons. I have been super duper productive, yet there is still so much more to do. How? Science doesn’t know. On the up side, there are all these book previews to enjoy. You decide! Today’s Friday the 13th! What is anything? Well, we know what one thing is. We know what the Millions Book Preview is. We have looked upon it, and we have found that it is good.…

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‘Tis the Season for Best Books Lists: A Links Round-Up

Oh, friends. Albeit the holidays are a challenging and tiring time for many, they are also the glorious occasion of Best Books of the Year lists, which I love so much. I am linking to, uh, a certain number of those lists. Make of that what you will. NPR’s Book Concierge for 2022 Brittle Paper‘s list of 100 Notable African Books of 2022. The Guardian‘s Best Books of 2022. Paste‘s Best Fantasy Books of 2022. Kirkus has a bunch of subject-specific lists of best books of 2022. The Globe and Mail‘s Best Books of 2022. Laura Miller’s best of 2022.…

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Twitter Moriturus Te Salutat: A Links Round-Up

I actually have no idea what is going to happen to Twitter, but this title seemed very funny to me. Hopefully it will not die? I feel very sad at the prospect of its dying; I feel like Obi-Wan Kenobi sitting in the Millennium Falcon feeling the deaths on Alderaan. So yeah, idk, here are some links. Nauru is a very tiny island nation that I learned about in the book How to Hide an Empire (which was good). Here is an article about the current state of things in Nauru. The villain is colonialism all along! “’I was a…

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It’s Scary How Many Links There Are: A Links Round-Up

LOL I keep meaning to post these links, and every Thursday evening, like clockwork, it falls right out of my brain that I have ever seen such a thing as a link in all my born days. So much has happened! Angela Lansbury died! Elon Musk might buy Twitter after all! Burkina Faso had its second coup of the year! I hope that y’all are all hanging in there as we head into spooky season. I hope your neighborhoods have lots of good Halloween decorations. I hope that the Locked Tomb fans among you are enjoying my scaaaaaaaaary Twitter display…

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Me over at Tor

Hi friends! My second and third Ships in the Night columns on SFF romance have gone up at Tor! In the second one, I talk about Suleikha Snyder’s wonderful Third Shift series and the power of community to sustain the fight for equality. (I got too cute in my bio for this one and therefore did not get tagged on Twitter when it came out and therefore did not promote it at the time, because I am a dope.) Then the third one is about the romance novel cinematic universe, specifically in Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling-Trinity series, and how it resolves…

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