Seis de mayo

[rolanni]

So, the text of the talk I delivered at Ravencon is online, for your viewing pleasure.  Here's your link.

Steve is shortly on his way to Portland to partake of the secret delights offered by the Maine State Democratic Convention; I will join him there tomorrow to do my duty as a delegate for Bernie Sanders.  Today, with luck and tailwind, I will finish the first draft of the story that's due on May 15.

In the meantime, I am soliciting recommendations for novels that are. . .light-hearted. They don't have to be comedies, but they do have to be. . .soothing and generally uplifting -- along the lines of The Goblin King, or Uprooted.  I foresee finishing Karen Memory (which I'm enjoying very much) this weekend, and the books remaining on my TBR pile lean somewhat toward the Grim and Improving, which is not what I need to read right now.

And, now?  I am turning the internet off, in order to get with the as-yet nameless short story.

Everybody have a fun-filled Friday, 'k?

Comments

[melita66.livejournal.com]

Second (or third) recommendations for Martha Wells and Patricia Wrede. I also a great fan of Wells's Raksura series and Wheel of the Infinite. Maskelle's great! I often reread Wrede's A Matter of Magicwhich is an omnibus of Mairelon the Magician and Magician's Ward. It feels almost like it's in the same world as Wrede and Stevermer's Enchanted Chocolate Pot series. Stevermer's A Scholar of Magics has appealing characters and is a indirect sequel to A College of Magics.

When I think of "humanistic" writers, I also think of Diane Duane (although she does characters with psychological trauma) and Nina Kiriki Hoffman. Zenna Henderson, too, of course, but there are no legal ebooks.

In the last year or so, I've enjoyed books by L. Shelby (Across the Jade Sea) and Melissa McShane.

I just started rereading Fair's Point by Melissa Scott which is an interesting series. I don't think I'd suggest starting there but probably with Point of Hopes.

The Dubious Hills by Pamela Dean is now out in ebook.