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 …
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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 …
Books, August 2020
Blackout! A lot of my books this month were ones I would have read anyway but got bumped up the queue to fit a square. The bingo deadline was officially September 8, so come back next month to read about the last few that made the count. Book of the month: This is How You …
Books, July 2020
I use a somewhat idiosyncratic system for sorting the genres of the books that I read, which also has shifted over time. I am also currently working on going back through old posts to fix those inconsistencies, starting from the beginning. (Early 2016 me is so much less cynical and less verbose than mid-2020 me.) …
Books, June 2020 and halfway through the year
The first half of 2020 has lasted six months and also FIVE MILLION YEARS. In that five million years since January, for the first time since 2015 (the era of me keeping track of the books I read) I am on track to - dare I jinx it - crack 100 books in a year. …
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Books, May 2020
As you very well know, 2020 sucks. For so many black Americans, things have always sucked, and many white Americans have historically been really good at denying or ignoring that, not to mention causing it. I struggled over whether I even wanted to write this month, since we should all be reading black writers right …
Books, April 2020
Seattle Public Library book bingo is here! I already picked books off my shelf (and ebook... shelf?) for 18 of the 24 squares. Dilemma: support local bookstores or finally make a dent in the book pile at home? Solution: BOTH. READ EXTRA BOOKS. Book of the month: The Library Book, Susan Orlean The central branch …
