Well, not really cabbages and kings, but close enough. First a whine: today is day 2 of a migraine — I’m done now, but my head seems not to care. Anyway, it has been awhile since I posted and I thought I should catch up a bit. First, we’ve been pushing back on the leaf […]
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Raining off and on all day. Rain always seems to create the perfect day for reading, especially mysteries — maybe it’s the grey sky, overcast cloudiness, and feeling of oppression — or is that just the headache . Anyway, I spent a good part of the day reading Holly Blues by Susan Wittig Albert. It’s […]
The Darcy Cousins: Scandal, Mischief, and Mayhem arrive at Pemberley… by Monica Fairview, Sourcebooks, ISBN: 978-1-4022-3700-3, pages 432. The rift between Darcy and his aunt Lady Catherine de Bourgh has been somewhat mended since Elizabeth has given birth to an heir. Of course that doesn’t mean that Lady Catherine actually recognizes Elizabeth’s presence. But the […]
The subject line has been our short cut for saying that the day was one where you just seem to work and never really get anything done that shows. It’s a line from Real Genius, a film that’s funny in a geeky way before so many studios began to make movies for the geek crowd […]
Today was one of those days where you go as fast as you can all day but never get anywhere. I sent out the notices on the reviews on SFRevu and Gumshoe Review. Moved books forward for another month for the reviewers. Entered some news items. All while doing the wash, folding clothes, and other […]
It’s spring and thoughts do turn to new beginnings. Sometimes those new beginning are new relationships. Here’s a video that shows that love, ingenuity, and some teamwork can conquer just about anything. Do you think I should have given a spew warning first?
It took until nearly 1 a.m. on April 1st but SFRevu and Gumshoe Review both were up and live before I went to bed last night. Gumshoe Review has an original short story Critic’s Choice by Rekha Ambardar as well as our usual collection of reviews. The US Books column lists the books coming out […]
The zines go live on April 1st. Finally finished proofing everyone else’s work and need to go over all my stuff for the billionth time and finalize it and get Hyperion to proof it for me. Meanwhile, I took a break and knitted on a sock for an hour this evening. Then dropped a stitch […]