- I feel bad that I seem to hardly ever post about what I'm reading these days, but I'll try do better next year. I do my best to update the reading list with recommendations, though I feel like my reading has suffered this year numbers-wise. Anyway, two amazing books I've finished recently about which I'll have more to say here or there (there being Locus), when I have a little more time: Bennett Madison's September Girls (Outer Banks-set, which you obviously know I love, and mermaids, which are usually a hard sell for me…but these are not the usual mermaids; a new book from Bennett is always a treat and this one is delicious) and Laini Taylor's Days of Blood & Starlight (amazingAHmazing, even better than Daughter of Smoke & Bone–wrenching, beautiful, special, and fearless).
- Seanan McGuire with a thoughtful take on the digital divide, considering e-book access and poverty.
- Kate Elliott has some interesting meditations on reviews and on our more linked-up world of readers.
- Among the best of lists I like to keep an eye on this time of year are the romance ones. Eloisa James picks her faves of the year for NPR and I already see two of my favorite writers there–Ilona Andrews (Steel's Edge is in my stack) and Meljean Brook (whose Riveted I thought was wonderful)–so I'll have to check out the others.
- The University of Chicago's Indiana Jones mystery has been solved, but oh, what a great story it is.
- A fascinating interview with Junot Diaz at Lightspeed, where many topics are discussed, including genre hierarchies and Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day."
- Lee Child on creating suspense. (Hat tip to Kim.)
- Sara Zarr on a year of podcasting. You are checking this one out, right?
- Special mummy ray gun design flaw.
- Fancy writers are coming to guest at the Bluegrass Writer's Studio MFA program residency, complete with public readings, and the Herald-Leader reports. I am not (even anywhere close to) the fanciest, but I will be a guest and my reading is at 7:30 on Saturday, Jan. 5, at the Hilton Downtown, and–bonus–my divine agent Jennifer Laughran will also be there, as she's coming in to do a joint panel session with me earlier in the day for students. The reading is open to the public. So come, local peeps. I'll read something new. (And I'll remind you again closer to the date.)
- As many of you know, I love Miss Universe. I love the National Costume portion best of all. And it's time, friends. Genevieve has helpfully pulled out the…best…and provided commentary. Happiness.
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Seanan Mcguire’s entry was so, so true. It is why I have resisted getting a Kindle. Not because I can’t afford it, but because I would be contributing to this very problem. The more e-books we who can afford them buy, the more we convince publishers that they should abandon paper. We don’t live in a world where a $79 piece of tech is anywhere in the range of affordable for millions of people — not just here, but across the world. Our society needs paper books, and it will for a very long time.