A lot of people here really like
Twilight,
IIRC. I took a strong dislike to it, but I won't repeat my rant here, Susan, unless you really want to know. I'd rather not color your experience of the book if you're enjoying it.
Amy knows Libba Bray personally.
Really? Cool! I've met her a couple of times and really liked her. And I would never have guessed that she has an artificial eye!
Speaking of YA novels, I'm about 100 pages or so into Nick Hornby's new book,
Slam
(which is his first YA book), and it's really excellent so far. The main character is this 16-year-old skater boy who talks to a poster of Tony Hawk, which I love because I always feel like Nick Hornby understands what it means to be a fan of someone and to feel like you've got a kind of relationship with them, and he doesn't treat that feeling trivially.
Will Shetterly called me a homophobe. Fun story.
...Come again??
...Come again??
On Livejournal. I referred to a conversation he was having with someone else as "mutual masturbation", and he followed a referrer log or something, found the comment, and called me a homophobe in his LJ.
Then I got to explain that I wrote gay porn for fun, and he got kind of flustered and said he thought Brokeback Mountain was a good movie.
I've met her a couple of times and really liked her. And I would never have guessed that she has an artificial eye!
I worked with her for a while, and she is a fucking hoot. I'm so proud of her and happy for her, because she sweats out these books and just puts everything into them. And they're so good!
Twilight was like crack to me. I knew I shouldn't like it, but I did, in the end.
Then I got to explain that I wrote gay porn for fun, and he got kind of flustered and said he thought Brokeback Mountain was a good movie.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!
Maybe I'll ask for your rant after I've finished, Kate. For now, I'm enjoying it. She's raised some questions I'm curious to see how she'll answer, and there's the whole "Forks! I was there three months ago!" thing.
Hip hooray! UPS just handed me my Amazon box with the new Libba Bray!
Only 4 1/2 hours until I can go home and start reading! Although I don't totally remember everything that happened in Rebel Angels. Here's what I remember -- Gemma's laudanum-addicted father = oh noes!, new teacher = Teh EVIL, dead!Pippa = not-so-good, cute!boy = not-quite-right-for-Gemma, and IIRC, Gemma now has The Realms *within* her -- is that right?
What else am I forgetting?
On Livejournal. I referred to a conversation he was having with someone else as "mutual masturbation", and he followed a referrer log or something, found the comment, and called me a homophobe in his LJ.
Was that during his Extreme Stupid It's All About Class, Why Are You Talking About Race? period of being annoying?
Yeah. My one contribution to that slapfight was pointing out to him that, for a professional communicator, he was having to do an awful lot of clarification and restatement, and that might kinda sorta be a problem.
What else am I forgetting?
That sounds right, but I have to reread it before I pick up The Sweet Far Thing.
