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asato_muraki) wrote2009-12-02 08:28 am
asato_muraki) wrote2009-12-02 08:28 am
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Wounded Flesh
I'm still a tad ill, it seems, so I'm going to be taking it as easy as possible for a few more days. Better that than risk a relapse. Do Not Want!
Over at GeekaChicas, we have the latest from Alpha Lyra (known to some of you as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amy34), World of Warcraft and Wish-Fulfillment Fantasy.
There's also a bit of non-fiction from the prolific Amalia The Savage, Impress the Mighty Thor With Your Knowledge of Icelandic! For Free!.
Hee! I'm sorry, but that shite is fun. At least *I'm* having fun. I've decided to write about how syndicated Fantasy TV shows are self-consciously kinky. With lots of screen caps. Should be fun.
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Spent some time on chat wit a writer from MA that some of you know as Bright. We always talk about books and movies and slash and how people's minds work, and she never fails to give me new insight into characters and things I'm working on, even when she's not trying to help. Last night we talked about books. Some time ago, I got her into reading Fantasy by pimping Lynn Flewelling at her. She had never found good Fantasy before, with deeply relatable characters. She has now out-read me by leaps and bounds in the genre, and always has a rec or two for me. So last night I was glad to be able to send another rec her way, which I will now share with you.
Dudes. You've GOT to read Elizabeth Bear's Ink and Steel, if you haven't already. I'm not quite done with it, but it would take a really uncharacteristically awful ending to make me not love this book. I'm already requesting the sequel on inter-library loan, after which I will likely do the same with the rest of the Promethean Age books, which are, for some reason, quite difficult to find in stock, even in used book stores (and my book budget is *blown* for the year anyway).
Over at GeekaChicas, we have the latest from Alpha Lyra (known to some of you as
amy34), World of Warcraft and Wish-Fulfillment Fantasy.There's also a bit of non-fiction from the prolific Amalia The Savage, Impress the Mighty Thor With Your Knowledge of Icelandic! For Free!.
Hee! I'm sorry, but that shite is fun. At least *I'm* having fun. I've decided to write about how syndicated Fantasy TV shows are self-consciously kinky. With lots of screen caps. Should be fun.
***
Spent some time on chat wit a writer from MA that some of you know as Bright. We always talk about books and movies and slash and how people's minds work, and she never fails to give me new insight into characters and things I'm working on, even when she's not trying to help. Last night we talked about books. Some time ago, I got her into reading Fantasy by pimping Lynn Flewelling at her. She had never found good Fantasy before, with deeply relatable characters. She has now out-read me by leaps and bounds in the genre, and always has a rec or two for me. So last night I was glad to be able to send another rec her way, which I will now share with you.
Dudes. You've GOT to read Elizabeth Bear's Ink and Steel, if you haven't already. I'm not quite done with it, but it would take a really uncharacteristically awful ending to make me not love this book. I'm already requesting the sequel on inter-library loan, after which I will likely do the same with the rest of the Promethean Age books, which are, for some reason, quite difficult to find in stock, even in used book stores (and my book budget is *blown* for the year anyway).