Recommended
Reading, November
The Freelancer’s Survivor Guide, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Ever considered ditching your
day job and working for yourself, in any capacity (not just writing)? Then you have to read this book. Rusch has been
freelancing for years, she’s made all the mistakes and learned from them, and
in this book she tells you what they were, what she learned, and how she came
out the other side. She posted each chapter on her blog, and in fact wrote
chapters she never even intended to based on comments and questions she
received. You can still read it there, or you can buy it as a print book or ebook.
Believe me, it’s worth every penny!
Except the Queen, Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder. Devoted faerie sisters Meteora
and Serana anger their Queen and are banished to the mortal realm. Now
middle-aged (with all its attendant creaks and pains and the lack of the
breathtaking beauty of youth and fey) and, worse, separated from each other, they
struggle to survive in an alien world and find each other again. But the humans
they befriend make it clear that there’s far more going on than a simple
banishment…. I’d read the novella version of this in Marvin Kayes Fair Folk anthology, which won a World
Fantasy Award (and which itself is worth reading for Tanith Lee’s contribution)
and was thrilled to discover they’d expanded it to novel form.
Recommended
Reading, December
December
was a roundly crappy month for me, so that may have colored how I felt about
what I read that month. Maybe some books were better than I realized, but I
wasn’t in the right headspace. I did read several good things, but ones I didn’t
think were great enough to mention here. So I only have one…
Maybe This Time, Jennifer Crusie. I have been vibrating with
excitement for this book ever since Crusie started talking about it on her
blog. It’s her modern take on The Turn of the Screw, which a stronger heroine and
Crusie’s funny, breathless style of prose. Which is not to say it’s not damn
creepy in places, because it is, and there were times when I wished Ken were
home while I was reading it…. Seriously, you’ve got ghosts, romance, a
crumbling castle transported to the Midwest more than a century ago, and the
usual assortment of secondary characters both hilarious and disturbing. What’s
not to love?
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