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I'm reading a book I randomly grabbed at the library* called Enemy Glory by Karen Michalson. There's some cool stuff in there, and some beautiful descriptions that occasionally veer into the ridiculous (oh, god, she loves the word, "darkly.") There's also occasionally a D&D allusion that smacks me between the eyes with a twelve-sided 2x4. (He's an evil cleric! There's an illusionist gnome! They actually have alignments!) I could put up with that until the characters actually sat down and started playing D+D. I'm serious. There's no character sheets (so far) but WTF? We'll see if I can keep going.



*Because it--well, the sequel--had the word "Hecate" in the title. Anything to do with Hecate, Persephone or Lilith, I'll probably read. And if you know enough to do something with Hestia or Kore, I'll squeal with delight.

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I bought Caitlín Kiernan's A is for Alien just now. When I saw that the special edition had a story called, "Persephone," I almost forked over the 45$ for it. (See previous post for explanation.)

However, since I"m planning on spending a bunch of money tomorrow on books, and recently spent 80$ on beads, I figured I should restrain myself. I might end up buying The Steel Remains, by Richard Morgan, just because of This incredibly colorful and enthusiastic review by Hal Duncan. That review is also worth it to read about Duncan's take on writing gay characters.

I'm also reading Heinlein's Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. Written in the 50s. The kid's spacesuit is made of asbestos. I skimmed ahead and also saw the line, "I wish my boots were made of asbestos." It's like he had a forward-looking time machine and wrote it to be retrospectively hilarious!

URGGHH FONTS!!

GoogleDocs font options INFURIATE me!!
The first four are: "Serif", "Sans Serif", "Wide", and "Narrow."
Do you think we're idiots, GoogleDocs? Call it goddamm Arial already.