book giveaway alert
Apr. 11th, 2017 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidenthere's a drawing for the entire October Daye series plus some other swag. it's up for a Hugo this year, if you haven't read them you should consider catching up. i am not into urban fantasy but i can't stop reading them, they're just so well-structured and have a great ensemble cast.
(i feel like the Best Series Hugo was designed for the Vorkosigan Saga, so i don't expect October Daye to make it this year.)
(i feel like the Best Series Hugo was designed for the Vorkosigan Saga, so i don't expect October Daye to make it this year.)
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Date: 2017-04-12 07:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-12 11:22 am (UTC)As for the Hugo, I too will be very surprised if the Vorkosigan Saga doesn't win. The VS is one of those things I feel like I should read and I'd probably like, but the sheer size of the thing is off-putting - sort of like Discworld and the Foreigner series.
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Date: 2017-04-12 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-12 04:13 pm (UTC)And I love your userpic! And that is an opening for you (anyone else who's reading this) to offer suggestions of what to watch after we finish watching Buffy/Angel for the first time (we finished Buffy a couple of weeks ago - just before it went off Netflix and are finishing up the last season of Angel on discs). Criteria: Not Star Trek (A. immediately vetoed when I suggested that). Not Supernatural (tried it, bounced off). No zombies, or at least very, very few zombies (low tolerance for gore). No scarier than Buffy/Angel (L. is almost 13, and he was able to watch Buffy/Angel, but it was a close thing with some of the scarier episodes). Preferably available streaming on Netflix. And if you find yourself thinking "surely they've watched that" and not wanting to suggest something, go ahead and suggest it - between school, work, and parenting 2 special-needs kids, we're the absolute worst at keeping up with TV.
ETA: Bonus points if it's something with an active fandom and also if it's something that you don't think "I can't believe how racist/sexist/homophobic/etc. this was" when you rewatch it.
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Date: 2017-04-12 05:11 pm (UTC)three parts, then! Discworld is sprawling, and there are rough character groupings which have different appeal to different people. most people who fail, fail because they started with book one and don't click with Rincewind the Wizzard. so don't do that. woman-centered book with lots of Shakespeare riffs, witches, rural setting (this was my entry): Wyrd Sisters police procedural/mystery, social commentary, urban setting: Guards! Guards! or Men at Arms Death (the anthropomorphic personification) big philosophical issues about belief, but strangely warm and endearing: Reaper Man or Hogfather
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Date: 2017-04-12 07:29 pm (UTC)Part 2: Vorkosiverse Try a standalone set in the same universe: Falling Free (what happens when you genetically engineer the perfect worker, and then technology passes them by? big stuff on dis/abililty, revolution) or Ethan of Athos (envoy from a closed culture goes on a quest in the wider world, LGBT issues, mystery)
Start at the beginning with my favorite character, Cordelia: Shards of Honor (marooned on a newly discovered planet in the middle of a territory dispute, a bit of romance) or the collection "Cordelia's Honor".
Start with young Miles: the collection "Young Miles" or The Warrior's Apprentice (it's part military SF, part con-artist story). in this case, the collection is nice because it includes a great novella.
TV
Date: 2017-04-12 08:04 pm (UTC)For moar snappy dialogue: Veronica Mars (adult themes, happy to discuss what)
For moar ensemble adventure: Leverage
For moar optimistic heroics: The Flash
For moar over-the-top big bads: Doctor Who (2005)
Probably too scary: Stranger Things
Might also be too scary: Agents of SHIELD
Re: TV
Date: 2017-04-25 11:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-16 04:56 am (UTC)