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Egypt Doings

In case you don't know, I'm crazy for ancient Egypt. If I can read it, watch it, play it, I'm there. The Mummy? Yes. Amelia Peabody?! Absolutment. Stargate? Yes! Joann Fletcher escapades? Yes! What about that book in Gail Carriger's series where they finally go to Egypt?! YES. Gods of Egypt?! EVEN THAT. Immortal? Yes. […]

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books
Multipass Saw Her Standing There

A few years back, this blog had a feature called Multipass, which ran on Mondays. It was widely read and acclaimed (ha no) and had adorable post titles based on song lyrics and here we are again! Today, four things make a multipass. Over the holiday weekend, I put Fellowship of the Ring into the […]

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books
They're good reads, Brent

I use Goodreads a lot -- at least as a reader. As a writer, I try to make sure my stuff is listed, and beyond that I try not to fuss, because reviews are ultimately not for writers, they're for other readers. One thing I lovehate about Goodreads is the yearly reading "challenge." You can […]

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multipass
Stride

I don't tend to think of myself as disabled, but then I'll be out with friends, and I'll notice that oh, sure as heck, I'm-- Is that the word? When I was sixteen, I was in a motorcycle accident with my boyfriend; we hit the back end of a car that pulled out in front […]

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multipass
Tracks

Sometimes, when I'm feeling blue, I remind myself that Jupiter is out there in the dark, and it's full of amazing and endless storms and it's beautiful, and I feel better. This is not to say it's always that easy! The weekend, without question, sucked. I made a bad judgment call at work and had […]

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multipass
Dissolved Girl

Massive Attack is playing, see, low and dreamy and then gone. Last night I got the news that another friend died, and sometimes it feels like that's all this world is. People leaving. The tulips are forcing their way out of their bulbs though, and this is supposed to be a great metaphor, isn't it […]

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movies
Annihilation

I fell in hard love with the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. I loved the first book (Annihilation), and didn't really make plans to read the others, because I thought for sure one would be enough. As it turns out, I was entirely wrong (so wrong, so wrong, oh golly), and after watching the […]

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Kindness

I'm taking a break from Twitter, because it feels like a good time to do it. I'm allowing myself to read some Twitter over lunch, and then I close it up. I'm not posting, and it's a strange thing. Still, today at lunch I saw that Marshall Ryan Maresca started a thread about the kind […]

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books
2017 Books

I read a lot, but this year I deliberately read less, because at some point in 2016, I felt like reading had become an obligation. When you're writer and an editor, I suppose it happens. Reading is actually part of your work, and I think I'd forgotten how to read for pleasure. So in 2017, […]

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womenSFF
The Last Leia

Leia was dead: to begin with. I feel like that's where Episode IX begins, because how can it not? I came out of The Last Jedi wondering how on earth they meant to go on, without Carrie Fisher, without giving us the Leia film that so clearly should be Episode IX. If you haven't seen […]

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