I am participating in the American Cancer Society Read Every Day challenge. This is an easy one for me, as I read every day anyway! So I am blogging my reading this month in the hopes that you might enjoy my literary journeys, and that you might consider supporting my fundraiser to fight cancer and…
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Relay reading: Day 6
I am participating in the American Cancer Society Read Every Day challenge. This is an easy one for me, as I read every day anyway! So I am blogging my reading this month in the hopes that you might enjoy my literary journeys, and that you might consider supporting my fundraiser to fight cancer and…
Relay Reading: Days 1-4
I am participating in the American Cancer Society Read Every Day challenge. This is an easy one for me, as I read every day anyway! So I am blogging my reading this month in the hopes that you might enjoy my literary journeys, and that you might consider supporting my fundraiser to fight cancer and…
A parable from Petunia Pigthighs
It’s been a while since we’ve done a roundup of book banning news, because it’s so freaking depressing. Buckle in, folks, and grab the mood-altering beverage of your choice. (Mine: coffee.) The title comes from a nastygram I got on social media this week for pointing out yet another round of book banning. I got…
BookNotes: Adults only, and only what we say
Guess what, kids? Don’t bother reading! Ever! That’s the message in Idaho, as new laws requiring a certain amount of insulation between the children’s section and adult books cannot be achieved in the Donnelly Public Library because the building is literally too small. So now the library will be adults-only. Children not allowed. Oh,…
BookNotes: It’s a hell of a week in Book Land
South Carolina and Arkansas have eliminated AP African American history classes, in case you were thinking the ongoing tide of book banning was solely about getting naughty books away from minors. The governors of Florida and Illinois are loudly arguing about Florida’s “revisions” to history. Pritzker is fighting DeSantis before the College Board, advocating for…
Dreadmire rises from the dead!
It’s aliiiiiive! The anniversary re-release of Dreadmire is now available online and wherever fine books are sold. Excerpt: None of them were really muka anymore. Once Alesia had thought only the craziest of hermits would voluntarily remain in Dreadmire. Why would anyone choose such a filthy, wild, barbaric place inhabited by such strange and dangerous creatures? Why…
A haunted swamp, a dancer and the Angel of Death…
It sounds like the opening of a joke, but there are three new items up for order (or preorder) this month! First: We are now accepting preorders for Dreadmire, the 15th anniversary edition of my first quest fantasy. It’s a dark one – not for the kiddos – and I’ve always had a great fondness for…
BookNotes: Nevermore
Today’s top read: The Estrogen Zone, or how women pioneered creative nonfiction before it was even a thing. All the way back to Nellie Bly, women like Joan Didion, Rachel Carson, Gail Sheehy, and others had to deal with the most rank sexism to fight their way out of the “flamingo pink” women’s pages…
BookNotes: AI and book banning, once again.
This week’s roundup in book news is pretty much all AI and book banning, but we do have some fun stuff first: • A postdoc teaching associate at Northwestern University believes he has found about 20 stories and poems he believes were authored by Louisa May Alcott, previously unknown. They were ghost stories and even…