Day 03 – Your favorite recent book *looks despairing* This would be easier if I’d read more than seven books this year, all of which I quite liked. I may have to go with Jack Campbell’s THE LOST FLEET: VICTORIOUS, which is the final book in the Lost Fleet series, which are military SF that do exactly what they say on the box. I have enjoyed them probably beyond their actual literary value because of that, but since there’s not much more you can ask for in books, yeah, I…
reading meme: day two
Day 02 – A book that you wish more people had read I’m not sure I have a good answer for this one. Possibly Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Science in the Capital” series, encompassing FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN, FIFTY DEGREES BELOW, and SIXTY DAYS AND COUNTING, which I find to be brilliant, thought-provoking, and exciting environmental novels. They remind me of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” with their lyricism: they are books which should be read at least half-aloud to appreciate the rhythm of the words. They are not, I fear,…
reading meme: day one
Nabbing this meme from –it looks like fun. 30 days of answering questions about favorite books and things. I’ll put the whole list of questions behind the cut so people can nab it easily if they want, but day one is: Your favourite series of books (with more than 3 in the series) The Belgariad, by David Eddings: Okay, so maybe I’m still fourteen at heart, and maybe they’re classic predictable fantasy tropes, but I still love those books. Especially Silk and Barak, who remain among my favorite characters ever.…
busy life
Ted: You’ll have to make…that stuff. Kit: Yeah, I was just thinking I had to. Possibly we’ve been married too long. :) I keep failing to blog, partly because I keep being tired, but also because I apparently keep being too busy to bother. I’ve kept a blog over ten years, and only *now* my life gets too busy to write about? Thursday I popped into town and had lunch and hot chocolate with one of our ex-pat American friends, and between those things we went to the National Library,…
Live at Bitten By Books!
I’m up and running over at Bitten By Books for the next day or so–there’s a new interview posted, and I’ll be popping by regularly to answer questions. There are a couple of prizes for people who participate–a copy of TRUTHSEEKER, and an Irish Care Package which will also include a copy of TRUTHSEEKER, so come on over and chat!