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Scifi book club recap: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

Posted in books, tagged , , , , on May 8, 2011 |

First, an announcement: for June only, the Scifi book club meeting will be at 6pm on the SECOND Tuesday, June 14, instead of the normal first Tuesday. We will be reading The Mysteries of Udolpho, which is the book that Jane Austen parodied in Northanger Abbey, and was also one of Edgar Allen Poe’s major [...]

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Departed Angels

Posted in books, tagged , , , on January 29, 2011 |

Jessica’s mini-review: We just got a used Departed Angels (Jack Kerouac: The Lost Paintings) yesterday, and it looks pretty cool. The first half is just a collection of Jack Kerouac’s terrible drawings and paintings. It’s kind of hilarious; the drawings range from awful to passable, but you could never accuse Kerouac of timidity, so despite [...]

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Hugo & Nebula Awards!

Posted in books, tagged , , , , , , , on April 10, 2010 |

It’s that time of year again; the grass is turning green, the trees are budding out, the Nebula awards ceremony is coming up and the Hugo award nominees have been announced! The Nebula nominations were announced in February, of course. I haven’t read any of them myself (sad day!) but I’m about to start Boneshaker [...]

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Pattern Recognition

Posted in books, tagged , , , , , , on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s been a while since William Gibson‘s Pattern Recognition came out, and I still haven’t managed to read it. I enjoyed Neuromancer very much, but haven’t been impressed by some of his other work. Nevertheless, this interview in the Blackbird Archive is fantastic. Most of it, you’ll notice, is an extended meditation on what constitutes [...]

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First person smart-ass

Posted in books, tagged , , , , , , , on June 27, 2009 |

It always surprises me when people like the books I like for the same reasons I like them. I don’t know why it should; I suppose my tastes are not so very esoteric. For example, on tor.com, I’ve come across a number of blog posts and comments about Steven Brust, who is perhaps my favorite [...]

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Re-reading a Childhood Favorite: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Posted in books, tagged , , , on June 25, 2009 |

Recently, due to a class on Adolescent’s Literature, I had the opportunity to reread one of my favorite books from my childhood. At first I was hesitant, as I thought that perhaps I would not enjoy the book as I once did, or that my fond memories of it would be dashed. I got over [...]

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