I’m late because my reviews were stuck behind the boat in the Suez Canal. The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune This absurdly charming story follows Linus, a social worker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, in a world where magical beings live openly but under strict registration and regulation. Having caught …
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Books, February 2021
Hey, spring is coming. Don’t let your covid guard down. Stay inside and read more books until the CDC says otherwise. East of Eden, John Steinbeck Where to start with Steinbeck’s sprawling epic? It’s anchored but far from bounded by the story of Adam Trask, and heavily features the stories of his family and friends …
Books, January 2021
Goal: read more books this year, especially books I already have, than I add to my shelves or wishlist. But looking back at my goals of the past... let’s just say my completion rate on books is higher than my completion rate of reading goals. Book of the month: The Daughters of Ys, MT Anderson …
A year in books, 2020
In a fitting end to the garbage fire year that is 2020, my browser ate my 75% complete post and I had to start over. Symbolic. I think I am not alone in feeling Zoomed out, and screen-timed out in general this year, which meant I kept turning to non-screen entertainment. Through no deliberate effort, …
Books, December 2020
See ya 2020, don't let the door hit you on the way out. Book of the month: Piranesi, Susanna Clarke There is very little that I can say about the plot of Piranesi without ruining the point of the story, which is to experience the slow unfolding of the truth and meaning of the world …
Books, November 2020
Remember last month that I said I was up to something and that was why I was actually publishing on time, instead of vaguely in the middle of the month like I usually do? Well, what I was up to was... Drumroll.... Winning National Novel Writing Month! Yay, me! Participants are challenged to write 50,000 …
The Haunting of Pacific Science Center – watch now!
Thanks once again to Pacific Science Center for hosting me for another Halloween talk! It was streamed live on Youtube and you can watch it (along with the live audience chat) here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/oHau0WunmWA?start=420 If you missed listening to my always-delightful preshow playlists, you can enjoy the ghostly preshow tunes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf5RIvAxxbYzEphUiqAVw6Wj-OV9uo1zm You can also see …
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Books, October 2020
How odd, I am actually done at the beginning of the month! Return in a month to find out why. Book of the month: The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal I previously crowned the prior two Lady Astronaut books as my 2018 series of the year, and I am delighted that Relentless only makes the …
The Haunting of Pacific Science Center: October 27, 7pm
Year five of Halloween science is on! Join me for a spooktacularly safe virtual talk about the haunting of Pacific Science Center, sensory illusions, and how your brain can get tricked by your senses. RSVP here at PacSci's website.
Books, September 2020
Look, October 2020 is an entire Molotov cocktail thrown onto the already blazing dumpster fire that is this year, and it's only the 4th of the month. Allow me to offer a completely bonkers balm for your tired soul: experimental online science fiction piece 17776, released in 2017, and its sequel 20020, releasing M-W-F through …
