Kevin's Watch

Dragonlily wrote:They ought to have gotten Xar to do the translation.

*vigorously nodding*

But, I'm obviously biased, as even my signed copy of North Star refers to my "groupie" status...

Hey, a Joy sighting!

Currently reading "The Triumph of the Moon" by Ronald Hutton. After that, I've got the first three Outlander novels waiting for me. I promised myself I'd get through Hutton first.

I'm trundling around the internet restoring favorites on my new computer and rebuilding the basic files of my reviews site. The old comp is in the shop -- the CD drive doesn't work, so I wasn't able to transfer over any but the essential files, by emailing them to the company gmail. Thank goodness for the backup I did a year ago , so I could retrieve the RCR embedded files.

Today's project, after housework, is to finish the final readthrough of Xar's GHOSTBLOOD. We're reediting and reissuing it as an ebook. It's going fine, except that my partner is buried in contract work and doesn't have time to make the cover.

Sorry about the OT, I knew you would both be interested.

Dragonlily wrote:Today's project, after housework, is to finish the final readthrough of Xar's GHOSTBLOOD. We're reediting and reissuing it as an ebook. It's going fine, except that my partner is buried in contract work and doesn't have time to make the cover.

Sorry about the OT, I knew you would both be interested.

Definitely.

I've been keeping up with what little info has been shared regarding the Ghostblood reedit on the Twins Worlds blog, but that hasn't been updated since December, so all I have mostly heard has been courtesy of Xar himself on extremely rare occasions.

Will there eventually be a Lulu edition of Ghostblood? I'm really looking forward to comparing it to the version I have read...

You'll have to be awfully alert to detail to pick up the changes. Jenny did a runthrough for pacing and trimmed a few things, but not enough so I could remember what the trims were. We clarified the explanation of one of Alric's plots -- I think that's the biggest change in my stage of it.

As for POD, we haven't talked about that yet. There's still the Anthology in print, though I doubt anyone is buying copies anymore.

Dragonlily wrote:You'll have to be awfully alert to detail to pick up the changes. Jenny did a runthrough for pacing and trimmed a few things, but not enough so I could remember what the trims were. We clarified the explanation of one of Alric's plots -- I think that's the biggest change in my stage of it.

I think the biggest potential change Xar mentioned to me was discussion on the poem at the very beginning. But that is the last I heard. I don't know what was finally decided regarding that...

I referred that question to Jenny and she opted to leave it in.

Yay.
I think it is beautiful, and sets the story up nicely.
But, I am not a critic in the least...

Just finished the hilarious Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth; just started Loving by that oft-forgotten Modernist, Henry Green.

Been listening to Audio CDs on the way to work and back, since I don't have time to read books these days.

Been listening to the Wicked Years by Gregory Maguire. Finished the first one (The Wicked Witch of the West) and just finished the Second one (Son of a Witch), and nowjust starting the third and final (so far) book (A Lion Among Men), which features the Cowardly Lion, been looking forward to getting to this one.

Anyone else read these? I really enjoy the dark slanted view of Oz in them.

Right now, I'm reading the Incrediable Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson, after having finished Hellhouse by the same author, then I may move on to a different author

Lord Mhoram wrote:Just finished the hilarious Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth;

I didn't like PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT when I read it in college. Too grumpy and self-pitying. 30-some years ago...

Dragonlily,

I think the self-pity was rather the point. I did find it a bit self-obsessed but again, I think self-obsession was the object of the novel's study. Also it was one of the funniest novels I've read in my life, so it wasn't taking itself at all too seriously. I think Roth is probably the best living American writer.

Now that Updike and Vonnegut have passed? Hmm... I wonder what other authors are in positon for that honor>runs off to google

Funny you should say that... *eyes thread he just made*

Reading Flowers for Algernon. So far very good. It deserves its reputation. It deserves better than its reputation, in fact.

Listening to Atlas Shrugged on audiobook. I once read you can learn as much from the bad as you can from the good. Boy, am I learning a lot. For instance, if you slam your head into a wall thirty times, you're still not dumb enough to enjoy this thing.

Khaliban wrote:Reading Flowers for Algernon. So far very good. It deserves its reputation. It deserves better than its reputation, in fact.

I remember stumbling upon that story in my Daddy's copy of the April 1959 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as a teen. He was a charter member of the pulp magazine, and kept all of his copies in pristine condition. I think he gave me access to the collection when I was 12 years old, so I started reading it in 1972 or so. I was about 14 when I came upon that story. A quick read. But I cried thinking about it for days after...

Khaliban wrote:Reading Flowers for Algernon. So far very good. It deserves its reputation. It deserves better than its reputation, in fact.

I'd like to hear what you think at the end. I remember being fascinated with the book myself.

One of the few books I cried reading, too. It's one of my favourite books.

Loremaster wrote:One of the few books I cried reading, too. It's one of my favourite books.

*nod*

I have long said A Canticle for Leibowitz is my favorite stand alone (although I understand a sequel was published posthumously after Miller's passing; I have not read it) science fiction novel. Flowers for Algernon is probably my favorite shorter work.