Interview with Steven Brust - [link] (xpost with gww)

An Abundance of Katherines and Will Grayson, Will Grayson, both by John Green. Amazing.

I don't know whether you saw that I loved The Fault in Our Stars and liked Looking for Alaska. I just started An Abundance of Katherines, and I love the narrative voice. I have no idea what to expect, but I think I'll like it more than Looking for Alaska.

Has anybody read YA author C.J. Omololu?

She's the parent of one of the kids on Emmett's tournament team, and they hosted our season ending party.

Nice quote for a segue: "I almost quit writing my first book when John Green's Looking for Alaska came out because the writing was so good, I figured why bother."

I haven't read The Fault in our Stars yet - it's not at the Nashville Public Library in eBook form, so it's getting delayed.

Friday is basically awful, but does indeed have some cool ideas in it. I loved the bit where she researches the Shipstone corporation - it really piqued my interest in the insanity that already IS multinational conglomerate corporations. I still enjoy wasting time by reading about all of the brands/companies owned by Proctor and Gamble or Pepsico or whatever.

I also just like the idea of Shipstones. Sure would be a nice way to solve every energy crisis.

Robert Heinlein was very ill in the '70s and had a series of TIAs starting in 1978. I charitably believe that that's why late Heinlein sucks and focuses on the least attractive of his vices.

I can never condemn the man overall, because his inventiveness is unparalleled and his early work changed my life. I've reread the juveniles many times, except for Podkayne of Mars, which is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Goreyesque Primer of the Song of Ice and Fire deaths - spoilery if you haven't read all the books.

Okay. . . Barbara Van Tuyl of the "Bonnie" series of horse books repinned one of my pins on Pinterest!!!

I am broken like a broken thing. I just finished Code Name Verity.

I didn't stay up all night to read it, but I did put off any sort of useful work today.

I am broken like a broken thing. I just finished Code Name Verity.

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It's brilliant, isn't it? And heartbreaking. I need to reread it, I think.

I can't wait to see what stories get written for Yuletide.

Such a lovely and terrible book. I think I might have to give it to a couple people for Xmas.

Of course, I was sitting on the couch staring out the window after having finished it, probably looking shell-shocked with running mascara (and it's also the time of the month where I cry at car commercials), when there was a brief knock at the door and a realtor and prospective tenant let themselves in.

I feigned illness.