Author Archive
Hmm… What to write…?
So, I haven’t written anything of value in a really, really long time. It bothers me, but at the same time, I know it’s not permanent. I just… know.
At least, I’ve been reading a lot. A book every two-ish days a lot. Right now, I’m reading the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire, and so far it’s really fun. I mean, anything about a halfling P.I. working for Faerie and human clients in the San Francisco Bay Area can’t not be good.
That’s that, for now.
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WordPress 4.5, here we are!
So, we are now running WordPress 4.5! Like the previous WordPress 4.x releases, the changes are… subtle. I’m really pleased, and when I actually start writing again, the act of writing will be smoother.
That’s that.
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Sunday, suckday
I was going to write something much longer about the slow, steady decline of my regard for Sundays… I just can’t, not right now.
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Novella review: Every Heart a Doorway
So, if you’re looking for a rather quick read that’s part fantasy, part murder mystery, check out Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire.
Every Heart a Doorway tells the tale of Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, sort of a boarding school, sort of sanitarium for kids who have quite literally fallen through the looking glass and come home. These kids are broken, not because the mirrors they fell into, the doors they stumbled through lead them into Hellish nightmares, but rather, because the worlds they left either by accident or by force felt like where they truly belonged. They’re broken because home no longer feels like home. They wind up at Eleanor’s because their families want them fixed, or barring that, simply out of the way. Little do they know that Eleanor West has secrets, and that her school very well may just keep its charges… permanently.
Every Heart a Doorway is a gorgeous novella that examines what Alice, what the Jacks and Jills would do and feel after they returned from their adventures and came back to the mundane world. It reads like Grimm’s and Agatha Christie, with a dash of Mary Shelly, all while remaining distinctly a work of McGuire’s own. She has a vast knowledge of many genres and a iron-clad command of her craft that allows her to bend genre to her will.
Every Heart a Doorway is delightfully dark and wonderfully written. You won’t be disappointed.
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I wonder when…
I wonder when WordPress 4.5 will hit… I know the answer is just a google search away, but I’d rather guess, rather be surprised.
I’m going to guess… this Tuesday.
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As it turns out
So, as it turns out, I don’t feel like writing about yesterday.
That is all.
