Links I found interesting for 20-02-2013
- Five Days in North Korea
Andrew in one of the world's more mysterious places.
- Thoughts on the Hagel Filibuster and its Political Implications
Or, how broken is the US Senate?
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Goodreads | Librarything | |||
number | average | number | average | |
Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed | 1664 | 3.60 | 195 | 3.55 |
2312, Kim Stanley Robinson | 1644 | 3.42 | 285 | 3.51 |
The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin | 1257 | 3.86 | 74 | 3.48 |
Ironskin, Tina Connolly | 867 | 3.40 | 74 | 3.48 |
Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal | 706 | 3.75 | 107 | 3.85 |
The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan | 424 | 3.95 | 80 | 4.11 |
Full shortlist (including short fiction, Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation and Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book) is here.
Au séminaire, il est une façon de manger un œuf à la coque, qui annonce les progrès faits dans la vie dévote.
In the seminary, there is a way of eating a boiled egg which reveals the progress one has made in the life of devotion.
If she saw it she would recognise it. Something awful had happened, or was about to happen, the last time she was there. We never went back, she told herself. I know that. We were too afraid.I thoroughly bounced off the first of the Kefahuchi Trilogy when I read it back in 2004, and read the third book in the sequence because it has been nominated for the BSFA Award. I found it a little more to my taste than Light, but that is not saying much; apart from Anna Waterman (the "she" of my quote above") I found the characters unengaging, and I had difficulty following the plots and grasping how or why they intertwined. No doubt this was due to too much transatlantic flying, but I won't be ranking this one high on my ballot.
But as for the rest – the events I lived through in those strange last months of the conflict – nobody except Greene knows about them, and perhaps the American, Heller, for some of it. And the Doctor. Of course, the Doctor.Three grumpy book reviews this evening, the effects of post-Gallifrey jetlag (or timelag?) I suppose. But once again I wasn't wild about this one. The book is told in the first person by, in turn, Alan Turing, Graham Greene and Joseph Heller, as they one by one accompany the Doctor from Oxford through occupied France to Dresden in 1944, on the trail of some presumably alien signals. The Turing part is rather good, even if the author must heavily insist on Turing's crush on the Doctor; the Greene and Heller sections totally fail to catch the styles of their ostensible narrators, and the plot is not in fact resolved. Reading the ecstatic fan reviews I realise that I am clearly in a minority.