Dear one: it’s because those weren’t sinus headaches, they were #migraines :( #13yrsago #timehop
#13yrsago Hiaasen's Nature Girl - hysterical crime fic https://boingboing.net/2006/12/09/hiaasens-nature-girl.html
Hiaasen's Nature Girl - hysterical crime fic

I just finished listening to the audiobook of Carl Hiaasen’s new novel Nature Girl, read by Lee Adams. Hiaasen is my favorite crime writer of all time, an hilarious absurdist whose experience…

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#13yrsago Johnson's Ghost Map: Earth's largest organism and its smallest https://boingboing.net/2006/11/27/johnsons-ghost-map-e.html
Johnson's Ghost Map: Earth's largest organism and its smallest

I just finished Steven Johnson’s excellent new book “The Ghost Map,” a popular science book about the London cholera epidemic of 1854, and the extraordinary new science that emerg…

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#13yrsago Sun of Suns: novel of sky-pirates, awesome worldbuilding https://boingboing.net/2006/12/04/sun-of-suns-novel-of.html
Sun of Suns: novel of sky-pirates, awesome worldbuilding

Karl Schroeder’s new novel, Sun of Suns is the first book in a thrilling new steampunk/ post-singularity/ space-opera trilogy that is the finest and weirdest worldbuilding I can remember read…

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Going Under: moving kids' novel

I’ve just finished Kathe Koja’s moving new young adult novel Going Under, and I continue to be deeply moved by Koja’s work. Going Under is the story of a bright, home-schooled bro…

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#13yrsago Making Comics: Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" for creators https://boingboing.net/2006/09/21/making-comics-scott.html
Making Comics: Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" for creators

I just finished reading Scott McCloud’s magnificent Making Comics, a comic book for people who want to write comic books, or for those of us who want to know about what goes into making a com…

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#13yrsago Steven Brust's Dzur: witty and exciting heroic fantasy https://boingboing.net/2006/09/05/steven-brusts-dzur-w.html
Steven Brust's Dzur: witty and exciting heroic fantasy

Over the weekend, I finished Dzur, the latest volume of Steven Brust’s snappy, swashbuckling heroic fantasy novels about Vlad Taltos and the world of Dragaera. I’ve been reading these s…

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#13yrsago Changeling, a fairy tale of contemporary New York https://boingboing.net/2006/09/14/changeling-a-fairy-t.html
Changeling, a fairy tale of contemporary New York

I just finished reading “Changeling,” the new young adult fantasy by Delia Sherman, and it reminded me of just how much I love “contemporary fantasy” stories that bring fair…

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#13yrsago Alanya to Alanya: feminist science fiction adventure https://boingboing.net/2006/07/13/alanya-to-alanya-fem.html
Alanya to Alanya: feminist science fiction adventure

I’ve just finished L. Timmel Duchamp’s first novel, Alanya to Alanya, the first book in a feminist science fiction series of novels about pacifist aliens working with human activists to…

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#13yrsago Graphic novel autobiography of Dykes to Watch Out For creator https://boingboing.net/2006/08/18/graphic-novel-autobi.html
Graphic novel autobiography of Dykes to Watch Out For creator

Last week, I picked up “Fun Home,” Alison “Dykes to Watch Out For” Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel, finding it on the recommended table at my local comic shop…

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