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Of all the recent werewolf/vampire/etc. series, Patricia Briggs’s is the last one I would have picked to be optioned for movies, since it’s perhaps the least fluffy.

I’m just having trouble picturing this. Peanut gallery, what say you?

A couple of weeks ago I posted about Ubiquity, a new Firefox extension. Today I wrote my first command for it: mooch, which will search BookMooch for selected text on a page (or whatever you type in). If you’re using Ubiquity, you can now add the command to your installation. Enjoy! And please tell me [...]

Laughter of Dead Kings, the new Vicky Bliss mystery, is out this week.

Back to work. Frantically busy. First week of school. GAH.

How much do I love Shawn Johnson for using the August Rush soundtrack (“August’s Rhapsody”) for her floor exercise music? Lots and lots and lots.

And then they had to spend ten minutes on Bush. Who can’t even pronounce the names of the world leaders he’s been talking to, much less “Ossetia.” Melanie Rawn fans [...]

I am madly in love with a book (other than the one I’m writing): Elizabeth Bear’s Ink and Steel. It’s actually the first half of what was once one long book; here’s the other half. I’m doling it out to myself in very small portions, lest I get drunk on Elizabethan dialogue and lit geek [...]

A) That was sooooo not the book I wanted. Ugh. And blech. I want that four and a half hours of my life back.

B) I need brain bleach now.

C) These recaps are fucking hysterical.

My husband, who does not read for fun, snatched The Watchmen from me when it arrived in the mail today and has been ensconced on the couch with it for the last two and a half hours. Guess I’ll be reading that when he gets done….

My goal for this weekend is to revise the first [...]

I’ve been in a pissy mood all day for no good reason. Just now I picked up Robin Benway’s Audrey, Wait!, which has been on the TBR pile since I heard it compared to Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.

Two pages later, I’m in a better mood. Back to the book now.

ETA: Finished. So much love. [...]

Halfway-plus through Sherwood Smith’s delightful Inda, I must pause and bitch: DAW, why O why did you not include the character list in the published book? Because, Christ on a crutch! In addition to the usual firstname-lastname thing, each school-age character gets two more names at the academy: an official name formed from the family [...]

Today is a good day. Ink & Steel is out. I think Bear was still working on this when I began reading her LJ, because this was the first thing of hers I remember wanting to read. When the Jenny books came out, I was like, “Eh. That’s nice. But where’s Will & Kit’s Bogus [...]

Other writers are crazy. (Update: Let us count the ways.)

Steven Brust has posted his Firefly novel online under a Creative Commons license.

ETA: A bit of backstory on how this came about, from a 2006 con report.

Found Iron Kissed on the shelf at B&N today, a week early, and promptly devoured it. This series just keeps getting better — as far as I’m concerned, it sits at the top of the urban fantasy/paranormal romance heap. Briggs is especially clever about opening up pieces of Mercy’s world without being heavy-handed about it. [...]

So I haven’t posted much lately. Sorry about that. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s going on….

Michael finished his fall classes last week, did OK in both, and starts a minimester tomorrow, unless he can talk his advisor into substituting an old credit for this class. (ETA: He did! Yay!) His physics study partner has [...]

Empire of Ivory was better than Black Powder War, lots better, but I still don’t think the Temeraire series is living up to the promise of the first book. I am enjoying them, but I thought the first book was mind-blowingly fun, and the subsequent books have been pretty low on whiz-bang-wow. Novik says that [...]