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Book Log #73: Lord of the Silent, by Elizabeth Peters
After the mighty awesomeness that was He Shall Thunder in the Sky, any book Elizabeth Peters might write would have its work cut out for it. Thunder is so clear a culmination of the Ramses/Nefret love story that in many ways it serves as an admirable stopping point for the series. It would be somewhat…
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Ever wondered what the inside of a Macbook looks like?
Wonder no more! My laptop had been making these weird rattly noises for a while now, as well as running periodically far hotter than it seemed like it should. Replacing the hard drive didn’t help (although it did double my hard drive capacity, which of course was awesome). Neither did taking a can of electronics…
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Signal boosting: Call for submissions for Gay City anthology
Forwarding this on behalf of Eric Andrews-Katz, mentioned below. If you think this might be your cup of tea, follow the link he provides over to information about his anthology! Howdy, Please find below an Open Call for submission for both Writers and Artists/comics/photographers for the new anthology, Gay City. Vol. 4 – At Second…
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Hurray! I met Rachel Caine!
And now for today’s major reason I was happy to avert the threat of the bug from work: rachelcaine had a reading tonight at Third Place Books. As I’ve been a fan of her Weather Warden books for a while and as Third Place is literally right down the hill from my house, I pretty…
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Quick update about the transphobic app on the Apple Store
With respectable turnaround time, the app started vanishing off the store and by now appears to be well and thoroughly gone. I’m rather stunned as well that the issue even surfaced on the site for GLAAD, right here, and that they linked back to Dara as well. I’m with Dara: if Apple’s going to have…
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Book Log #72: He Shall Thunder in the Sky, by Elizabeth Peters
Now we are TALKING. He Shall Thunder in the Sky is perhaps my absolute favorite of the entire Amelia Peabody series–and as I’ve indicated in my reviews of several of the earlier books, it’s got some very strong contenders for my affections. It won’t have nearly as much meaning if you don’t read the series…
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Fictionwise ain’t quite dead to me yet
It seems Fictionwise is still capable of grabbing my attention, even if a lot of their inventory vanished once the agency model of ebook pricing took effect this past April. This weekend, though, they’re having a big ol’ 50 percent off sale, in effect through Sunday. (Use the coupon ‘spooky2010′.) Turns out several of the…
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Whoa! Was I EVER this small?
Here’s one of the good reasons to be on Facebook: a lot of my relatives who I otherwise would not be in touch with are there. One of my cousins found me there last night, letting me know that she’s putting together a memorial DVD to honor my uncle Marion who recently died and offering…
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Weirdly sized fruit is weirdly sized (but tasty)
Remember those huge Asian pears I mentioned? Here is a picture of one of them, next to a cute little Clementine orange! (I shall be eating several of these cute little Clementine oranges, which are miniature vitamin C bombs, for the next several days as we are entering the last two weeks of a MONSTER…
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Apple, this is not even remotely acceptable
solarbird has already posted about this, but I’m signal-boosting: she and I heard today via this post by rollick that a particularly repulsive, transphobic app has shown up on the Apple store. Its whole point is apparently to point and laugh at the “trannies” by letting you insert pictures of “trannies” in allegedly hilarious poses…
