April Roundup
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cjmarloweI keep meaning to post this and then getting distracted with something else, but now I'm going away tomorrow morning so if I don't do this now, I'm not going to. In April I wrote 7081 words and posted one story. I made the mistake of letting myself off the hook for word count while we were staging the play and I never managed to get back on track again. (Not even in May, though I'm hoping this week will help.)
Movies and Books, April 2012:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
The Hunger Games
Midnight in Paris
The Broken Hearts Club
and
Maurice Broaddus - King's Justice
The faults of the first book seemed magnified and it veered away from the story I was interested in, but it was back on track by the end. At least we got to see some more of the major players.
China Miéville - Embassytown
I've been sitting on this one for ages and finally made time to read it, not because I wasn't that interested but because I know that reading China Miéville requires a certain extra investment of time up front just to get a sense of his world before you can get into the story. And it was an excellent one, once I got there.
Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, eds. - Last Drink Bird Head
This charity collection of flash fic from a lot of Big Names, all writing to the prompt "Last Drink Bird Head" is interesting and generally well-written and bizarre, though a lot of it feels like it was written very quickly, and without much depth.
Genevieve Valentine - Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
Brilliant. Beautiful. Haunting.
So yes, tomorrow morning I leave on vacation for a week, and I likely will not have Internet while I'm gone (I'm borrowing a cabin up at the lake). I have been desperately needing this time away for a while, so I'm really looking forward to it.
This entry was originally posted at http://cj.dreamwidth.org/9839.html.
Movies and Books, April 2012:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
The Hunger Games
Midnight in Paris
The Broken Hearts Club
and
Maurice Broaddus - King's Justice
The faults of the first book seemed magnified and it veered away from the story I was interested in, but it was back on track by the end. At least we got to see some more of the major players.
China Miéville - Embassytown
I've been sitting on this one for ages and finally made time to read it, not because I wasn't that interested but because I know that reading China Miéville requires a certain extra investment of time up front just to get a sense of his world before you can get into the story. And it was an excellent one, once I got there.
Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, eds. - Last Drink Bird Head
This charity collection of flash fic from a lot of Big Names, all writing to the prompt "Last Drink Bird Head" is interesting and generally well-written and bizarre, though a lot of it feels like it was written very quickly, and without much depth.
Genevieve Valentine - Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
Brilliant. Beautiful. Haunting.
So yes, tomorrow morning I leave on vacation for a week, and I likely will not have Internet while I'm gone (I'm borrowing a cabin up at the lake). I have been desperately needing this time away for a while, so I'm really looking forward to it.
This entry was originally posted at http://cj.dreamwidth.org/9839.html.
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Date: 2012-05-14 03:59 am (UTC)Have fun; be safe! =)
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