Lila Prime

 Accumulated on various scraps of paper, which apparently is my brain's preferred mode of operation. D: "I'm not just  a talkin...

Nicola Griffith's Spear is a short, fascinating novella that retells a side quest legend in the Arthurian constellation of stories and c...

 Sometimes a home-curated meal is just a bunch of lovely colors. Pink skinny udon noodles in miso broth, with a hard-boiled egg and various ...

Emily Willingham 's Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis is not what I expected. Based on the cover art and the subtitle, it se...

T. Kingfisher's The Twisted Ones is a novel in a genre I don't like --- maybe "haunted gothic American mid-South"? --- an...

Poesy the Monster Slayer , by Cory Doctorow and Matt Rockefeller, is a charming illustrated book telling the story of Poesy, an imaginative ...

'Tis the season where graduated seniors' student email accounts are turned off, so I am receiving a lot of "thank you and here...

It seems to be a season to do one-person projects. Naturally, I have chosen to move a fainting sofa through my house and down some stairs. I...

I take attendance by having the students answer a question. What is the worst account security question? (Previously: 2016 .) Students c...

 These chickens were just out on the sidewalk. Chicken run? More like chicken, lightly wander around. This post's theme word is rutilant...

Empress of Forever is Max Gladstone 's doorstop-sized foray into science fiction. It tells the story of Vivian Lao, a tech CEO/brillian...

An honest assessment indicates that I mostly want this blog as a post-dated account of things I once did, some time ago. Want up-to-date Lil...

I take attendance by having the students answer a question. What is the unluckiest thing that ever happened to you? Some people referenc...

I take attendance by having students answer a question. What is the luckiest thing that ever happened to you? A lot of people are gratef...

I take attendance by having students answer a question. What word makes you turn your head because you think it's your name? Publish...

I take attendance by having the students answer a question. What is your favorite pattern? Visual patterns: checkered paisley checke...

It's incredibly picturesque here. And that's true even without the filters added! This post's theme word is revet (v. tr.), ...

This musical will forcibly draw tears from your tear ducts.  It will wrench the feelings straight out of your heart and condense them on you...

  N. K. Jemisin ’s The Obelisk Gate , a 2017 Hugo nominee , continues where The Fifth Season left off --- instants later. This means that ...

N. K. Jemisin ’s The Fifth Season , a 2016 Hugo nominee , is excellent. It alternates between several stories of women in the land of “the ...