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beer_good_foamyArchive Of Our Own has been nominated for a Hugo. This is a pretty fantastic thing; acknowledging both the site as an archive - ie a searchable, indexable, tagable archive of fannish creations - and as a collection of those fannish creations.
There are a lot of other good things nominated this year. Personally I'm rooting for Brooke Bolander's The Tale Of The Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters And The Prince Who Was Made Of Meat and Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer (the movie). But still, AO3 at the Hugos. We all deserve a fraction of a pat on the back for that.
And while I'm posting on that kind of stuff, why not do the Wednesday Reading meme, it's been a while.
What I just read: Marlon James' Black Leopard, Red Wolf which is... yikes. Ultra-dense African/Afro-Caribbean fantasy tale that drops you head-first into a world and a mythology where you simply have to find your own way, guided by a very unreliable and messed-up narrator looking for revenge on the world. Shape-shifters, vampires, witches, swordsmasters, true heirs to the throne, impending apocalypse, none of it from an angle you're used to, and pretty damn queer as well. Not a quick read, but damn.
What I'm reading now: Just finishing up Kameron Hurley's The Light Brigade, which is what I've come to expect of Hurley's novels: clever, fast-paced, gooey, and fueled by righteous anger. Like a mash-up of Starship Troopers (the movie) and Slaughterhouse-Five with some body horror thrown in. Very much recommended.
What I'm reading next: Honestly don't know. I recently stumbled onto an old Biggles novel at a yard sale, I'm thinking of reading that just to see if it'll help me understand Brexit.
There are a lot of other good things nominated this year. Personally I'm rooting for Brooke Bolander's The Tale Of The Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters And The Prince Who Was Made Of Meat and Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer (the movie). But still, AO3 at the Hugos. We all deserve a fraction of a pat on the back for that.
And while I'm posting on that kind of stuff, why not do the Wednesday Reading meme, it's been a while.
What I just read: Marlon James' Black Leopard, Red Wolf which is... yikes. Ultra-dense African/Afro-Caribbean fantasy tale that drops you head-first into a world and a mythology where you simply have to find your own way, guided by a very unreliable and messed-up narrator looking for revenge on the world. Shape-shifters, vampires, witches, swordsmasters, true heirs to the throne, impending apocalypse, none of it from an angle you're used to, and pretty damn queer as well. Not a quick read, but damn.
What I'm reading now: Just finishing up Kameron Hurley's The Light Brigade, which is what I've come to expect of Hurley's novels: clever, fast-paced, gooey, and fueled by righteous anger. Like a mash-up of Starship Troopers (the movie) and Slaughterhouse-Five with some body horror thrown in. Very much recommended.
What I'm reading next: Honestly don't know. I recently stumbled onto an old Biggles novel at a yard sale, I'm thinking of reading that just to see if it'll help me understand Brexit.
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Date: 2019-04-04 01:19 am (UTC)I may check that out. Huge reading slump.
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Date: 2019-04-04 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-04 04:49 pm (UTC)Oh that does sound good. Thank you for the rec. The reviews on Amazon are insanely controversial though -- they either hate or love it. But the writing style is poetic and distinctive per the sample.