I'm finally reading Kondo on The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. I'm going to burn through like six months of spoons acting on this plan but I'm ready to do it. In 2016 I had to move house twice, and since I'm partially disabled it was extra horrible. I hope to stay put where I am for a long time but it would be great to finally fit the space. Daunting, but it's going to be worth it. #Amreading
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Oh by the way, my latest review at Skiffy and Fanty is up. Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua kind of freaked me out some, y'all.
https://skiffyandfanty.com/2017/12/22/reviewtheredmendeabaitua/
Just finished reading The Wheel of Osheim, by Mark Lawrence. It ended the trilogy ( and perhaps the whole Broken Empire cycle) satisfyingly but also made me want to read the original trilogy again and hey wait I need to sleep sometime and read all the other books and...
aqsalose (books)"Science fiction is the realism of our time. It describes the present in the way a skeet shooter targets a clay pigeon, aiming a bit ahead of the moment to reveal what is not yet present but is already having an impact. This gives us metaphors and meaning-systems to help conceptualize our moment. So, as with any other realist art, you pluck just one strand out of the fabric of the total situation, and follow where it leads." - Kim Stanley Robinson
So, I joined the big Dark Is Rising reading event, and this is my first time reading this series. I could never get my hands on the first two books when I was a kid, and even then I was compulsive about serials, so I just missed out altogether.
So far, it's pretty swell!
BTW, I'm taking recommendations for books for my hard to please dad. He's 78 years old, has no capacity for suspension of disbelief but does like some historical fiction. He's read all of Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brien, C.S. Forrester, Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey, etc. Help?
Sue BaimanIf you'd like to check out @paulecooley 's new book, Ghere's Inferno, but can't afford it, DM me your email address and I'll gift you a copy (limited to the first 5 people) because everyone deserves an awesome book for the holidays!!
I'm exhausted but proud -- and terrified they won't like them because my imagination hates me.
Christmas 2017 is the I am Poor in Everything but Time ( and love ) Christmas, so I have spent the month in the kitchen making yummy things for my parents: apple butter, lemon marmalade, cranberry liqueur, rhubarb liqueur, amaretto, ginger beer, and a bottomless jar full of apple pie trail mix ( when it runs out I'll make something else), and I'm spending Christmas Eve making homemade English muffins for them to enjoy their preserves on. I found all the recipes just by googling "homemade X"
Paul E CooleyTomorrow, Fiendmas will begin with special deals at my store for autographed books. With any luck, will be selling preorders for the new book, Ghere’s Inferno, as welll.