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A touch of listmania

A while ago I discovered Lists of Bests, a site that is just what the name implies. It is a list of “bests,” whether by award or personal preference. Looking at it this weekend, I wondered if the fact I hadn’t read any of the National Book Critics Circle award winners this year was unusual. […]

Bookish marginalia

Evidently it will require some sort of spring thaw for substantive posting to resume. Hence:

The National Book Critics Circle awards were announced. Among the winners were The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz in fiction and Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington in general nonfiction. As I previously noted, they weren’t on […]

Blogroll changes

As a lifetime South Dakotan, I know winter doesn’t end until sometime in April. Still, I am so effin’ tired of cold weather that my snarkiness is increasing (plus I think my winter long luck avoiding colds, etc., has run its course). Thus, anything going on here is tinkering, including the following blogroll changes:

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Life-changing SF works?

io9, the SF blog that never seems to run out of posts or topics, this week comes up with The Twenty Science Fiction Novels That Will Change Your Life. It’s a rather broad title, since the post is really talking about how the books might impact your view of things, whether because “they’ve altered the […]