Books 2013: so very behind

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Books 2013: 66-77


Reading has been decidedly difficult for me lately: I lack some level of emotional energy necessary to involve myself in demanding texts at the same rate as heretofore.

Anyway.


66. Melissa Scott, Star Trek DS9: Proud Helios. Ebook.

67. Jean Lorrah, Star Trek Next Generation: Survivors. Ebook.

68. Diane Duane, Star Trek: Sand and Stars. Ebook.

So, these are all actually pretty good light entertainment, although Lorrah's is a bit squicky and problematic.


69-70. Katherine V. Forrest, Amateur City and Murder at the Nightwood Bar. Ebooks.

Murder mysteries from the 1980s, starring a lesbian detective with the LAPD. Pretty excellent stuff, actually: I'd really like to get my hands on the other books in the series. I MEAN IT. THESE BOOKS ARE AWESOME. ACE. GIVE THEM TO ME I NEED THEM.

(I know their names, even if I don't know what order they go in or WHERE TO GET HOLD OF THEM. Liberty Square. The Beverly Malibu. Apparition Alley. Sleeping Bones. Hancock Park. Murder By Tradition. GIVE ME THEM! LET ME FIND EBOOK (non-Amazon) EDITIONS OR SOMETHING.)

Ahem. This is because of a certain someone Who Knows Who She Is. Who sent me a box of delightful books (which I am slowly working my way through), but among them was Daughters of a Coral Dawn, which reminded me that Forrest had written murder mysteries, which led me to the discovery I could get the first two as ebooks.

(OH GOD I WANT THEM ALL.)


71-72. Claire McNab, Death by Death and Murder at Random. Gifts.

Lesbians. Spies. Whee? Whee!

(Everything's better with lesbians.)


73. Ali Vali, Blues Skies. Ebook.

Lesbian fighter pilots. Rah military is boring. But everything is better with lesbians.


74. Sara Marx, Decoded. Ebook.

Serial killer thrillers are usually boring. But everything is better with lesbians.


75. Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou, The Gemini Deception. Ebook.

Lesbian romance with espionage/thriller entanglements. Unbelievable setup! But - sing it with me now - EVERYTHING IS BETTER WITH LESBIANS.


76. Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls. ARC.

Reviewed for Tor.com. I did not like it.


77. China Miéville, Railsea. Review copy.

Reviewed for Vector. I LOVED IT.

Comments

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Laurie R King (who writes the Mary Russell books that have some Sherlock in them) also wrote some books starring a San Francisco cop who I love a great deal. My favorite of them is To play the fool.

Also thank you for your enthusiastic review of Martha Wells' work, I've been enjoying Ile Rein and the Syprians very much.

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I do like the Ile Rien books an awful lot. Wheel of the Infinite is also massively excellent, in my books.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

I lol'd! Reminds me of me, about twenty years ago. Everything is better with Lesbians!

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And my gender identity/whatever is even, "celibate, mostly." But you gotta love things that pass the Bechdel test and swim in feminist waters!

Sometimes I feel really odd advocating Moar Fictional Lesbianism when I guess you could call me bi, or queer, or anything but certain about which way I'd prefer to swing, or even if "sexuality" is really a thing for me. But then I think about how excellent women-centred narratives make me feel, and stop worrying about whether that means I'm secretly co-opting someone else's identity to say EVERYTHING IS BETTER WITH LESBIANS.

..er. If that makes any sense at all, since I am still in the middle of watching the last episode of Elementary AND OH FUCK YES I TOTALLY CALLED IT MORIARTY IS A WOMAN.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

There are times when celibacy is just the right thing to do, and then someone comes along at the right time for celibacy to be done, and violins! Violas! Voila! One of those.

I have to add Elementary to my list now. You didn't spoiler it; I've seen other women react on twitter all day. Well, after I finish reading All of the Martha Wells books, and you know who it is to blame for me having to buy them, yes; and after I finish Mad Men and Downton Abbey, and cleaning the house...

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Bagpipes and bongo drums, maybe. :P

Oh, Natalie Dormer. If herself and Lucy Liu don't win awards for that finale performance it will be a severe case of THEY WUZ ROBBED. But, oh, sweet godless heavens I do not think there is another mystery show as feminist around right now. And those last four episodes? Some of the best emotional payoff ever.

(Oh yes. I called it. I called it.)

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I adore bagpipes! I must find out how the FG feels about them...

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[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. The end of celibacy definitely requires bagpipes.

One of my fondest memories of marching with the Cub Scouts was the year they put us right behind the Police Pipes and Drums. Best parade ever.

::wanders off in search of FG::

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Have fun, you crazy kids. :P