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hawkwing_lb) wrote2012-06-22 09:35 pm
hawkwing_lb) wrote2012-06-22 09:35 pm
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Books 2012: I wish I could fix the world. But fixing myself would do.
Books 2012: 106-111
106-107. Laurell K. Hamilton, Bullet and Hit List. Headline, 2010 and 2011.
What can I say? Interesting trainwrecks are still interesting. But trainwrecky.
108-109. J.A. Pitts, Honeyed Words and Forged in Fire. Tor, 2011 and 2012.
Pitts is not a good writer at the sentence and paragraph level, particularly when he steps away from first-person POV. Forged in Fire, however, has a more compelling story than the unfocused and meandering Honeyed Words. Also, lesbians. And women who talk to each other and support each other: rare in urban fantasy. So mostly yay.
110. Michelle Sagara, Silence. DAW 2012.
This, on the other hand, is more than mostly yay. A very excellent urban fantasy YA.
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111. Helen Merrick, The Secret Feminist Cabal. Aqueduct Press, 2010.
An interesting and mostly readable, if at times densely academic work about the history of science fiction feminisms.
So the parent is feverish and sick. (I mean scarily feverish, running from hot to chills at irregular intervals, and without appetite. When you have to stand over a person to get them to eat a tin of pears, and when they refuse anything else, that's worrying.) And I have a headache and an inability to concentrate, and am not really cut out to be a good nurse. Sigh.
Oh, well. We go on.
106-107. Laurell K. Hamilton, Bullet and Hit List. Headline, 2010 and 2011.
What can I say? Interesting trainwrecks are still interesting. But trainwrecky.
108-109. J.A. Pitts, Honeyed Words and Forged in Fire. Tor, 2011 and 2012.
Pitts is not a good writer at the sentence and paragraph level, particularly when he steps away from first-person POV. Forged in Fire, however, has a more compelling story than the unfocused and meandering Honeyed Words. Also, lesbians. And women who talk to each other and support each other: rare in urban fantasy. So mostly yay.
110. Michelle Sagara, Silence. DAW 2012.
This, on the other hand, is more than mostly yay. A very excellent urban fantasy YA.
nonfiction
111. Helen Merrick, The Secret Feminist Cabal. Aqueduct Press, 2010.
An interesting and mostly readable, if at times densely academic work about the history of science fiction feminisms.
So the parent is feverish and sick. (I mean scarily feverish, running from hot to chills at irregular intervals, and without appetite. When you have to stand over a person to get them to eat a tin of pears, and when they refuse anything else, that's worrying.) And I have a headache and an inability to concentrate, and am not really cut out to be a good nurse. Sigh.
Oh, well. We go on.
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Did you mean mostly readable?
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Thus says the mother who nursed some scarily feverish children more times than I can count. A mother who can not type for shit. ;)
The danger with fever is dehydration. Once the fever goes down she will get hungry.
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(I have not been able to eat tinned pears except as necessary for politeness since.)
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I hope the parent feels better soon. Being sick that way is awful.
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And thanks.