Hmm, would really like to read Rose Under Fire.

Does anyone have a kindle copy that they could lend me?

I had to put it down last night, Kate, and go back to The Raven Boys, because I was in tears and I just couldn't hack it. I do love Rose, though.

sumi, I had Code Name Verity on Kindle, but I lent it to my mom and I think you can only lend it once, and I have a hard copy of Rose Under Fire.

I thought Consuela, particularly, would enjoy the essay at the bottom of this page.

Thanks for the heads-up, Beverly, I'll take a look.

I'm on vacation in Colorado, so mostly online, but I sadly came across some of the discussion about what's going on in SF writerdom right now. What a clusterfuck. Especially when I see writers I really like saying things that make me sad.

The Tiptree winner (and honorees) has been named: [link]

Pretty cool! I love it that Janelle Monae got honored.

me too. so very much.

There was a video of a couple of people at the side of some train tracks and, as a train with an open car goes by, a woman jumps for the car. She misses and falls to the track, but lies someplace safe and gets up all right.

Anyway, all I could think was that she'd read "Divergent".

Oh, man, "Fangirl" is good stuff. I could have used a little more showing, rather than telling, especially about Cath and Wren's backstory, but I really enjoyed it nonetheless.

Two vampirey books are free for Amazon kindle today:

Maggie for Hire and Recherche: A tale of memories, murder and vampires.

I just read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society the other day. I feel mildly uncomfortable about how endearing I found it. It's basically a pastoral romance pasted on top of a horrifying story of occupation, and it shouldn't work at all. And yet it does.

Ok, I've finished the book. I think there were enough horrific elements to make it seem like it wasn't taking the occupation too lightly. And it showed the occupying forces as human--mostly awful, 'cause Nazis, but all too rarely decent. And it showed some complexity in the occupied--some selling out their fellows, some heroic, many just trying to survive the experience. I like how the heroine didn't end up with the stereotypical male lead, but went for the pig farmer who appreciated her writing. I suspect I'll end up like Isola some day--I just hope I can get my hands on a motorcycle. I liked the epistolary narrative style. That's worked for me in other books. It's a good way for an author to show different character voices.

And I want to visit Guernsey now, but I wouldn't have turned down a visit before. Did anyone read about the author?