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lydamorehouse) wrote2010-04-07 10:40 am
lydamorehouse) wrote2010-04-07 10:40 am
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Weird Day, So Far...
My astrologically inclined friends should tell me what's up in the universe because I feel very clumsy and "off," today. I got plenty of sleep and I've had two cups of coffee, but I still just sort of feel disconnected (and my allergies aren't acting up in any visible way.)
Weird.
Anyway, I was just on Facebook and I have to say that people are strange. Sometimes I think really hard about what to put in my status line and I get no response, and some days, like yesterday, I make an off hand comment about my sparkly new workout outfit and I get eleven comments. Oh, yes, I should tell you, I have a new workout outfit that involves skin tight, clingy fabric, hot pink, sparklies, and "Hello, Kitty." The idea of me in this thing has apparently blown the minds of several science fiction editors and a large contingent of my friends. I think I look fabulous. As did the dudes at the gym who totally checked me out.
Today is also the day that Tom Piccarelli asks his followers to tell him what they're reading, and I wrote that I'm about a 100 pages into a book that came out some time ago that I never got around to reading: THE GHOST BRIGADE by John Scalzi (Tor, May 2007). I actually bought it when he and I shared a signing at Uncle Hugo's in May 2007, but it sat on my TBR pile. I was finally in the right mood for it, and though I think the story actually starts on page 85, I'm enjoying it as I do most of Scalzi's stuff. I find him reliably READABLE for some reason, and I enjoyed OLD MAN'S WAR tremendously for what it was.
In other reading news, I finished Lilith Saintcrow's first book which I'd previously raved about... and now I'm.... hmmmm. If I hadn't picked up book 3 in the series THE DEVIL'S RIGHT HAND, I think I'd actually be super pissed off and trying to find a safe, anonymous place to rant about my colleague. But something seems to happen in book 2 that reverses/negates the ending of book 1. I may have to go out and buy #2 or read a synopsis before starting #3...but after all that urban fantasy I was in the mood for space opera, so now it will have to wait until I finish Scalzi.
Over the weekend I had one of those moments I'm sure a lot of you do. I was sitting in the sunshine on the front porch with a pile of books trying to decide what I was in the mood for next. I had Laura Resnick's DOPPLEGANGSTER, which I picked up solely based on its awesome title, PRISON SHIP by Michael Bowers, which I picked up for reasons I'd rather not discuss, and a book I'd read before but thought I might re-read if nothing else struck me WAR CHILD by Karen Lowachee. In the mix, too, was THE GHOST BRIGADE, which obviously won. But it occured me that a lot of reading I do has a lot to do with mood. I wanted (and no offense to Scalzi) a kind of high octane, slightly over the top, space opera.
The other thing I need to do today is get some publicity postcards ready for Tate and me. Speaking of May, Tate has a new book coming out and a signing at Uncles that I need to let people know about, which also means I should have some postcards for my two other books on hand to give out to people. So stuff to do. I should pack up now and move to the other coffee shop for my weekly writing date.
Hope you all are doing well!
Weird.
Anyway, I was just on Facebook and I have to say that people are strange. Sometimes I think really hard about what to put in my status line and I get no response, and some days, like yesterday, I make an off hand comment about my sparkly new workout outfit and I get eleven comments. Oh, yes, I should tell you, I have a new workout outfit that involves skin tight, clingy fabric, hot pink, sparklies, and "Hello, Kitty." The idea of me in this thing has apparently blown the minds of several science fiction editors and a large contingent of my friends. I think I look fabulous. As did the dudes at the gym who totally checked me out.
Today is also the day that Tom Piccarelli asks his followers to tell him what they're reading, and I wrote that I'm about a 100 pages into a book that came out some time ago that I never got around to reading: THE GHOST BRIGADE by John Scalzi (Tor, May 2007). I actually bought it when he and I shared a signing at Uncle Hugo's in May 2007, but it sat on my TBR pile. I was finally in the right mood for it, and though I think the story actually starts on page 85, I'm enjoying it as I do most of Scalzi's stuff. I find him reliably READABLE for some reason, and I enjoyed OLD MAN'S WAR tremendously for what it was.
In other reading news, I finished Lilith Saintcrow's first book which I'd previously raved about... and now I'm.... hmmmm. If I hadn't picked up book 3 in the series THE DEVIL'S RIGHT HAND, I think I'd actually be super pissed off and trying to find a safe, anonymous place to rant about my colleague. But something seems to happen in book 2 that reverses/negates the ending of book 1. I may have to go out and buy #2 or read a synopsis before starting #3...but after all that urban fantasy I was in the mood for space opera, so now it will have to wait until I finish Scalzi.
Over the weekend I had one of those moments I'm sure a lot of you do. I was sitting in the sunshine on the front porch with a pile of books trying to decide what I was in the mood for next. I had Laura Resnick's DOPPLEGANGSTER, which I picked up solely based on its awesome title, PRISON SHIP by Michael Bowers, which I picked up for reasons I'd rather not discuss, and a book I'd read before but thought I might re-read if nothing else struck me WAR CHILD by Karen Lowachee. In the mix, too, was THE GHOST BRIGADE, which obviously won. But it occured me that a lot of reading I do has a lot to do with mood. I wanted (and no offense to Scalzi) a kind of high octane, slightly over the top, space opera.
The other thing I need to do today is get some publicity postcards ready for Tate and me. Speaking of May, Tate has a new book coming out and a signing at Uncles that I need to let people know about, which also means I should have some postcards for my two other books on hand to give out to people. So stuff to do. I should pack up now and move to the other coffee shop for my weekly writing date.
Hope you all are doing well!