Good books for hard times
Good books for hard times: these are the books I turn to when I’m ill or stressed. They are books to get lost in: comfort reads.
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Reading October/November
This month it’s mostly adult fiction with a couple of YA novels, plus two disability-related nonfiction titles. Many of these books are either just-published or scheduled for early next year. For those I recommend that are not yet published I’ve added the month of publication to make it easier for you to preorder.
Read moreMonday 5 November, 7 pm: Elliott Bay Book Company, in conversation with Katrina Carrasco
Come to Elliott Bay Book Company at 7pm on Monday 5th November. I’ll be talking with Katrina Carrasco about her debut novel, The Best Bad Things.
Read moreReading August/September
Five novels that I enjoyed and are definitely worth your time, plus four more than do exactly what they say on the tin.
Read moreReading February 17
Here are the books I’ve read or abandoned in the last month, what I’m reading now, and what’s on my TBR list.
Read more2018 Reading
I’ll talk on a semi-regular basis about books I’m reading/have read/plan to read. Some will be old friends, some new to me, and some yet published.
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Extra super special bargain signed and personalised books!
I’m teaming up with Phinney Books in Seattle to bring you signed books for the holidays. Only this year we have SOMETHING SPECIAL to offer: buy a signed, personalised hardcover or paperback of Hild, and get the ENTIRE AUD TRILOGY—also signed and personalised!—for only an additional $10!! (plus shipping).
Read moreReading day
Today I’ll be alternately sitting in the sun reading this and working on some Hild research. Also, y’know, indulging in high-stress activities…
Read moreMarooned
It started snowing in earnest first thing Tuesday morning: It stopped yesterday, but everything stayed frozen. Today it’s a little warmer, but…
Read moreI need amusement!
Snow is coming down. It will come down all day. Tomorrow there will be a lot more. I won’t be able to…
Read moreWe’ve, ah, come a long way, baby
I’m sure many of you have by now read about the latest foolishness from an f/sf bigot who I won’t bother to…
Read moreJust arrived
These books arrived this weekend. I’m looking forward to all of them. I love my job! Less fond of crapcam, though. Just…
Read moreWhere the deer are different
We’ve just spent a few days on Lopez Island, one of the San Juan Islands bang in the middle of the Strait…
Read moreThe perfect bookstore?
Over at You fight like Anne Rice! Eric Nguyen, talking about booksellers, says: Retailers need to ask: how can they make the…
Read moreBreakage
Yesterday was a day of breakage. We woke up to snow, and a ravaged curly willow. The tree had survived the Great…
Read moreRecommended reading
Today will be a slow-moving recovery day. Lots of blinking. Some sitting in the sun. Perhaps reading if I can find something…
Read moreFruit, fruit, more fruit–and c-r-e-a-m….
I spent most of yesterday eating. Nectarines, cherries, raspberries, all with lashings of thick thick thick fresh fresh fresh cream. I just…
Read moreBlueSolitaire, a new discussion list
A few years ago, a book lover built two email lists, BluePlace and Ammonite, for the purpose of discussing, respectively, crime fiction…
Read morereinventing bookselling
Here’s a Guardian article, nominally about Waterstone’s, a UK book chain (“When it started, Waterstone’s was a breath of fresh air. But…
Read moreAsterix and the golden jubilee
A preparatory sketch for Goscinny and Uderzo’s first book, Asterix the Gaul (1961). Photograph: Les Éditions Albert René / Goscinny-Uderzo The French…
Read morePW’s death knell?
Publishers Weekly really screws up: “Every year, PW selects its top 100 books, and for the first time ever PW has upped…
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I’ve seen a handful of things in the last week that are worth blogging about. But I’m in Hild mode, so instead…
Read moreDay of the Dead, Victoria Brownworth
The stories in Victoria A. Brownworth’s Day of the Dead are thronged by the lost and lonely–nuns and researchers, ghosts and vampires,…
Read moreAsh, by Malinda Lo
Ash is Malinda Lo’s first novel. It’s Cinderella retold: In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy…
Read moreall you need to know to restart civilisation
Last night I was catching up on my reading and came across a snippet in the New Scientist: the winners in a…
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