Books Read in 2009

Girl Genius No. 8:  Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones, Phil and Kaja Foglio
Soulless, Gail Carriger
The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine, Tom Standage
Uncommon Arrangements, Katie Roiphe
Star Well, Alexei Panshin (re-read)
Endless Blue, Wen Spencer
Living with Ghosts, Kari Sperring
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
Flesh and Fire: Book One of the Vineart War, Laura Anne Gilman
Graceling, Kristin Cashore
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Cape Storm, Rachel Caine
Rosemary and Rue, Seanan McGuire
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King
Larklight, Philip Reeve (decorated throughout by David Wyatt)
Sabriel, Garth Nix
New Amsterdam, Elizabeth Bear
The Mirror Prince, Violette Malan
Narbonic Six, Shaenon K. Garrity
Conspirator, C.J. Cherryh
Thirteenth Child, Patricia C. Wrede
Nine Years Among the Indians, Herman Lehmann, J. Marvin Hunter, and Dale F. Giese
The True Meaning of Smekday, Adam Rex
Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life, Gaby Wood
Undone, Rachel Caine
From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris
Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow
Codespell, Kelly McCullough
Cybermancy, Kelly McCullough
Carousel Tides, Sharon Lee (manuscript)
Fine Prey, Scott Westerfield (re-read)
Web Mage, Kelly McCullough
Uhura's Song, Janet Kagan

2010 Dance Card, aka Where in the World are Lee and Miller?

The day-job being a Fact of Life, and the rules of the day-job governing so-called "vacation days," and observed holidays being what they are, please be aware that, Just Because You Saw Steve does not mean that you will also see Sharon. I am, in particular, very sorry to have to miss both Boskone and Albacon again, but them's the breaks.

That said, in 2010:

Look for kinzel/Steve Miller at Boskone, Boston, MA, February 12 - 15.

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be Writer Guests of Honor at Oasis 23, in Orlando, FL, May 28 - 30 and at DucKon 19, in Naperville, IL, June 18 - 20.

Lee and Miller will also be attending ReConStruction the 10th Occasional North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC), in Raleigh, NC, August 5 - 8.

So, what's your convention schedule next year?

Spamming LJ in preparation of doing something useful, rsn

My usual work-a-day lunch is some variation of brown rice with veggies, nuked in the Departmental Xerox Machine (more commonly known as the Microwave; somewhere along the road, Steve and I started referring to our microwave as the Xerox Machine, and that, as they say, was the kiss of death.). In any case, lunch is usually nutritious, but Unexciting. At home, Steve is the cook because he's 'waaaay better at it, and likes it*, and that! is why I (usually) do the dishes.

So, but, today. Today, Steve's at SRM Galactic Headquarters, and I'm supposedly at home writing (yes, yes, in just a minute; I promise!), and thus needed to produce a lunch. We had a bit of too-ripe tomato, chopped, and the ever-present brown rice. I was in my own kitchen and I know where Hexapuma keeps the frying pan.

Poured some olive oil into the pan, and swirled it around until the bottom was coated, threw in the chopped tomato, a generous spoonful of chopped garlic, dried cranberries**, rice, and some canned pinto beans, stirred until it smelled wonderful, added a teaspoon of hoysin sauce, stirred some more, decanted it all into a pretty green and blue and cream pottery bowl -- goodness, what a good lunch! I may have to take a frying pan to work.***

In other news, I really do need to get something useful done, having frittered away my morning reading a graphic novel and viewing excerpts from True Blood on YouTube (Jeebers, what a terrible show). I also have some dried beans that I need to put to soak. Mmmmm, bean soup.

I'm opening the Ghost Ship file now.

No, really, I am.


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*It's not that I dislike cooking. I love to make soup, and I greatly admire stirring things around in a frying pan. It's astonishing how much food you can actually prepare using only these two techniques.

**What? They were sitting right there on the counter. Seriously, it's amazing how well dried cranberries go with -- everything I've put them in, actually.

***...on second thought...