C.E. Murphy's Blog, page 91
May 29, 2014
Recent Reads: The Legend of Eli Monpress
Look, the odds were stacked against me ever reading this series. First off, the edition I saw turned out to be an omnibus edition, and I don’t like reading omnibuses (I like a story to finish at the same place the book does, if that makes sense. (Furthermore, while I was putting the books into Goodreads I discovered the odds against me reading them were even greater than I’d imagined, as I didn’t care for the single-book covers at all, so if I’d encountered *them* instead of the omnibus I may...
May 26, 2014
The Hachette Job
For those of you who have not been following along–and frankly, I have no expectation that the larger percentage of my readers will be, because it’s a topic that at best affects them from a distance–Amazon is trying to force publishing house Hachette to agree to more-favorable-to-Amazon contract clauses.
They’re doing this by:
- not listing Hachette titles
- setting Hatchette title prices at (sometimes extraordinarily) high price points to discourage readers from buying them
- setting shipping da...
things make a post
Rogue hoodie. I will obviously be getting one of these. I’m tempted to also get the Captain Marvel one, but as someone on Twitter pointed out, what they really need to make is a reversible Rogue/Carol one. :)
I gotta stop going into Chapters Bookstore. Every time I do, I come out with more research material. :) The last foray netted me A BRIEF HISTORY OF KHUBILAI KHAN for an upcoming project and THE FUTURE HISTORY OF THE ARCTIC for the climate change series I’m not writing.
May 24, 2014
Picoreview: Days of Future Past
Picoreview: Days of Future Past: YAY
There was not a moment of completely suspended disbelief the way Nightcrawler’s opening scene in X2 took me in, but that was a thoroughly enjoyable film and had a moment *almost* that good. I want to see it again!
Spoilers right through the end of the movie behind the cut, so don’t click through if you don’t wanna know. :)
The almost-that-good moment was Quicksilver’s big scene, which was laugh-out-loud funny in places and did a beautiful job of showing off h...
May 22, 2014
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE
Tell me your favourite Walker Papers moment for a chance to win a copy of SHAMAN RISES!
Bonus points for using 25 words or less, since that’s what the poor bastards on Twitter are limited to. There will, obviously, be spoilers in the comments. :)
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May 21, 2014
He’s Gonna Send the Water From Zion
Recent climate reports say the Western Antarctic Ice Shelf (WAIS) has reached a tipping point. Comparatively warm water is coming up and melting it from beneath where it’s attached to land, and all that’s keeping it from working its way into a lower-than-sea-level valley where it can loosen the entire WAIS is a granite bulge.
There is no stopping it from cresting that bulge; the only question now is when. At the moment the predictions are that water will continue to rise on the order of millim...
May 17, 2014
LXD
oh my GOD why did none of you TELL me about LXD (Legion of Extraordinary Dancers)? STREET DANCING SUPERHEROES, GUYS, AND YOU DIDN’T TELL ME. YOU ARE ALL FIRED!
Ted found the first season on Netflix the other night and thought “Catie must watch this.” Furthermore, he knew which two episodes I would like best before I watched them. Now we must watch the rest of them!
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Picoreview: Godzilla
Picoreview: Godzilla: too long, too loud, and with no reason to stay through the credits. In some regards great (particularly Godzilla itself, which looked and fought like a man in an extremely sophisticated rubber suit, which I mean as a compliment); in others, infuriating.
I’m not, for what it’s worth, an original Godzilla fan, and I went to see it mostly because I lacked the extra ten minutes last night that would have allowed me to go to see a play instead. I paid no attention at all to th...
May 16, 2014
man flu
My son has the Man Flu. This was an observation made by his father last night as we listened to him moan and whimper, and while I don’t know if small girls make these same sounds when sick (presumably they do), the similarities between Indy’s complaints and Ted’s when he’s sick were so exact as to be very funny. :)
Ted, however, doesn’t generally throw up on me. Poor child. This was by far the biggest throw-up he’s ever done, and he had *no* idea what was happening, but was (quite reasonably)...
Recent Reads: Abandon Trilogy
I picked up ABANDON, by Meg Cabot, at the bookstore a couple months ago, and it ws the nearest handy book a few nights ago, so I foolishly started reading it at 9:30pm.
I was brave, and managed to not read more than about six chapters past the one (ortwoorthree) I’d intended to when I picked it up.
The Abandon Trilogy is a modern-day Persephone story, with quite a lot of clever interpretation of myth. Our heroine has had a near death experience and came out of it messed up not only in the usua...
