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TWIR: Okay, more than a week.

It’s been a while! I have read quite a few books recently. For example, my first Charlie Parker* mystery, but not my last. Also a book by a blogger I have long read. And I read Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill, just before going to see him talk to Lauren Beukes about her new book, […]

You may be eaten by a grue.

Choose Your Own Adventure books were big when I was a kid. I don’t remember anything about them, except the tension as you stuck your finger between the pages and peeked ahead to see if your choice meant life or death. Or pirates, possibly aliens. In high school I discovered Hamlet: The Text Adventure. Later, […]

TWIR: Genre-bending, fantasy, and capitalism at the movies

I love #fridayreads and want more excuses to talk about reading (even though it’s Saturday), so I’m going to attempt to do that regularly with This Week In Reading. Last weekend I went to Readercon, as mentioned, and picked up a bunch of books, but have barely touched them because I was already in the […]

TWIR: It came from the woods (most strange things do)

I have troublefinding things thatscare me. In stories, I mean. When a movie is supposed to be terrifying, it often turns out “terrifying” means “jump cuts and gore,” which is not what I consider scary. It’s a trick! It’s a trigger for my autonomic responses! Surprise and disgust are not the same things as fear. […]

TWIR: Judging books by their covers

Some weeks I get to Friday and realize I’ve not actually read that much. I’ve done agood amount of cooking, gone to the gym, editeda satisfying amount, and, of course, watched a few episodes of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, but not so much with the curling up with a good book.The sensible thing to do […]

TWIR: Margaret Atwood and mermaids

A few weeks ago I received a package in the mail, and made an ungraceful sound when I realized that inside was an advance copy of Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood. It doesn’t come out in the U.S. until next month, and I got a copy in my grubby little hands early. The problem is […]

TWIR: Small bites

A fewarticles I have enjoyed this week, as I try to make my Instapaper backlog less atrocious (it’s still atrocious): Black Girls Hunger for Heroes, Too: A Black Feminist Conversation on Fantasy Fiction for Teens: This interview is short and great. There were moments that were a bit of a wake-up call for me, in […]