Book Recs and One for Halloween
It rained again last night! Very exciting if you're me. I finished some other things I've been working on and am going to dive back into the third Cloud Roads book today.
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The Cloud Roads got a very nice mention from N.K. Jemisin: Stuff you should read while you wait and I second the recs for the other books she mentioned, too.
Link:
Got this link from Google+: Good Media: When Digital Shaming Goes Too Far: Lessons From the Seattle Tip Stiffer
Within about 72 hours from the moment Liss got stiffed, hundreds of people, united and galvanized by blogs, jumped into action and attempted to ruin a stranger's reputation because he said something mean to another stranger. There was just one problem: They got the wrong guy.
Book news:
SF Signal: 'ODD? Anthology' Contest!
Edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, ODD? is a mix of originals, new translations, and (hard-to-find) reprints that qualify as "strange fiction", some of it surreal, some horrific, some fantastical, and all of it...odd. (Unless it's just because you're too normal.) This first volume features, among others, Amos Tutuola, Nalo Hopkinson, Jeffrey Ford, Rikki Ducornet, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Hiromi Goto, Stacey Levine, and Jeffrey Thomas--with new translations by Gio Clairval, Larry Nolen, and Brian Evenson of such classic writers as Gustave Le Rouge, Leopoldo Lugones, and Karl Hans Strobl as well as a brand-new story by Finnish icon Leena Krohn!
Delia Sherman: FREEDOM MAZE ARC giveaway This is a new YA fantasy by Delia Sherman:
Stuck for the summer in the family ancestral home under the thumb of her cranky, imperious grandmother, Sophie, 13, makes a reckless wish that lands her in 1860, enslaved—by her own ancestors. from the starred review in Kirkus
Beth Bernobich: Official Release Day for Fox & Phoenix in hardcover and e-book This a new YA fantasy
The king of Long City is dying. For Kai Zu, the news means more than it does for most former street rats in the small mountain stronghold, because he and the king's daughter are close friends. Then the majestic ruler of the ghost dragons orders Kai to travel across the country to the Phoenix Empire, where the princess is learning statecraft. In a court filled with intrigue, Kai and his best (female) friend Yan must work together to help the princess escape and return to Long City. A refreshing mixture of magic, wit, and action, Fox and Phoenix is an auspicious debut!
I've been reading Your Neighborhood Gives Me the Creeps: True Tales of an Accidental Ghost Hunter by Adam Selzer
It's a good book for Halloween, about his experiences as a skeptic running the ghost tours in Chicago, the history behind some of the stories, the different theories about what ghosts are, and the idea that whether a place is haunted or not is effectively immaterial to its scariness. I also liked his chapter on the history of Hull House in Chicago, and how the demon baby story is still causing trouble for the charity organization that uses the house as its headquarters, to the point where he's reluctant to mention it on the tours.
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The Cloud Roads got a very nice mention from N.K. Jemisin: Stuff you should read while you wait and I second the recs for the other books she mentioned, too.
Link:
Got this link from Google+: Good Media: When Digital Shaming Goes Too Far: Lessons From the Seattle Tip Stiffer
Within about 72 hours from the moment Liss got stiffed, hundreds of people, united and galvanized by blogs, jumped into action and attempted to ruin a stranger's reputation because he said something mean to another stranger. There was just one problem: They got the wrong guy.
Book news:
SF Signal: 'ODD? Anthology' Contest!
Edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, ODD? is a mix of originals, new translations, and (hard-to-find) reprints that qualify as "strange fiction", some of it surreal, some horrific, some fantastical, and all of it...odd. (Unless it's just because you're too normal.) This first volume features, among others, Amos Tutuola, Nalo Hopkinson, Jeffrey Ford, Rikki Ducornet, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Hiromi Goto, Stacey Levine, and Jeffrey Thomas--with new translations by Gio Clairval, Larry Nolen, and Brian Evenson of such classic writers as Gustave Le Rouge, Leopoldo Lugones, and Karl Hans Strobl as well as a brand-new story by Finnish icon Leena Krohn!
Delia Sherman: FREEDOM MAZE ARC giveaway This is a new YA fantasy by Delia Sherman:
Stuck for the summer in the family ancestral home under the thumb of her cranky, imperious grandmother, Sophie, 13, makes a reckless wish that lands her in 1860, enslaved—by her own ancestors. from the starred review in Kirkus
Beth Bernobich: Official Release Day for Fox & Phoenix in hardcover and e-book This a new YA fantasy
The king of Long City is dying. For Kai Zu, the news means more than it does for most former street rats in the small mountain stronghold, because he and the king's daughter are close friends. Then the majestic ruler of the ghost dragons orders Kai to travel across the country to the Phoenix Empire, where the princess is learning statecraft. In a court filled with intrigue, Kai and his best (female) friend Yan must work together to help the princess escape and return to Long City. A refreshing mixture of magic, wit, and action, Fox and Phoenix is an auspicious debut!
I've been reading Your Neighborhood Gives Me the Creeps: True Tales of an Accidental Ghost Hunter by Adam Selzer
It's a good book for Halloween, about his experiences as a skeptic running the ghost tours in Chicago, the history behind some of the stories, the different theories about what ghosts are, and the idea that whether a place is haunted or not is effectively immaterial to its scariness. I also liked his chapter on the history of Hull House in Chicago, and how the demon baby story is still causing trouble for the charity organization that uses the house as its headquarters, to the point where he's reluctant to mention it on the tours.
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