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handful_ofdust) wrote2014-11-21 09:41 am
handful_ofdust) wrote2014-11-21 09:41 am
Book Tag Et Al
So what's been going on, Gemma? Well, the weather in Toronto has taken a sharp downturn over the last few days, becoming cold enough I actually went to bed last night wearing everything I'd been wearing all day yesterday, minus my bra. I'm still deep in a burning ring of Litreactor, though enjoying it, and I started doing "five minute fanfic" (okay, sometimes more like ten minute) drabbles using the bits of Governor headcanon I developed during my tour through The Walking Dead. The result, "What's The Matter With Your Next Door Neighbor?/An Act of God, A Freak of Nature," is definitely part of the "Death Is A Friend (Of Ours)" 'verse, and can be found at the AO3, here (http://archiveofourown.org/works/2634104/chapters/5878952).
(I think my favorite reaction to this work thus far has to have been when I described the first section to Alyx Dellamonica, ie the Governor-to-be looking at the back of his eventual wife Sarah's head in university and thinking "That's mine," to which she responded: "Oh GOD, what a creepy guy." And I was like: Yeah, I guess he is... I mean I think he probably thought it was romantic, at the time, but not so much, in context. Then again, I don't think Brian/Philip Blake really ever had much of a template for non-creepy "romantic" interactions, in any universe.)
Other than that, I've actually done some new work on Experimental Film, and also been spending time lining up new work, including a potential YA book pitch based on genderflipped TWD dynamics. And Sarah Letourneau tapped me for the following TBR Shelf Meme, so let's go.
(For anyone who’s not familiar with the acronym, TBR stands for “to be read.” Therefore, a TBR pile or TBR list consists of the books in your personal collection that you haven’t read yet.)
1. How do you keep track of your TBR list?
In my head, and I also tend to throw stuff I'm reading/planning to read into two particular areas of the apartment (a shelf under the lip of the kitchen counter vs. the bathroom magazine rack). So not very closely, and not in a highly organized fashion at all. (I sometimes keep a list of everything I've read in a year, but since the one for 2014 is definitely up over 100 entries, I stopped doing it at least four months back.)
2. Is your TBR list mostly print or ebooks?
I lost all my ebooks when I shut down my Amazon account, and I don't really have an e-reader anyway, so yeah, print is king at my house. I like to hold stuff in my hands. Makes it real.
3. How do you determine which book from your TBR list to read next?
Whatever strikes my fancy/will fit in my bag without wrecking my back. This lets out anything from Centipede Press, unfortunately.
4. What’s been on your TBR list the longest?
There's a bunch of hardbacks I got in my World Fantasy 2012 gift-bag that I still haven't cracked. Also hardbacks of Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death and Felix Gilman's The Half-Made World which I have no good excuse for not having read yet, aside from the fact that I prefer paperbacks.
5. Pick a book you recently added to your TBR list.
I'm almost through Megan Abbott's The Fever, which I added in because one of my fans really likes Abbott and I was interested in knowing why. What she actually recommended was Dare Me, but The Fever was all they had when I went looking.
6. Pick a book that’s on your TBR list strictly because of its beautiful cover.
Believe it or not, nothing. I'm not immune to the lure of a good cover, but I tend to go more on back-of-the-book or flap copy, before I put money down.
7. Pick a book on your TBR list that you’re apprehensive about reading.
I'm not really apprehensive about reading anything, but some days you want different things, and obviously there have been a lot of days when I haven't wanted whatever I thought the next title down the list was about. Stuff catches or it doesn't, I guess.
8. Pick an unpublished book on your TBR list that you’re excited for.
Whatever John Connolly's next Charlie Parker book turns out to be will probably soar right to the top, whenever it's released.;)
9. Pick a book on your TBR list that basically everyone has read but you.
I couldn't even venture a guess.
10. Pick a book on your TBR list that everyone recommends to you.
My tastes are fairly eclectic, and I can't remember the last time anyone recommended anything to me, frankly.
11. Pick a book on your TBR list that you’re dying to read.
I really want to get to the end of Jeff Vandermeer's Acceptance, the final book in his Southern Reach Trilogy, because I'm baffled with my inability to connect with it/track its action internally thus far, given how much I liked the first two books. I keep thinking there's a bunch of stuff that I'm missing, and maybe I'm simply not as smart as I always assumed I was. I also need to finish reading the rest of the stories in The Cutting Room: Dark Reflections of the Silver Screen (Ellen Datlow, ed.), for obvious reasons.
12. How many books are on your Goodreads TBR shelf?
Ha, none! 'Cause I don't have one.;)
Okay, done. Core training, then back to it.
(I think my favorite reaction to this work thus far has to have been when I described the first section to Alyx Dellamonica, ie the Governor-to-be looking at the back of his eventual wife Sarah's head in university and thinking "That's mine," to which she responded: "Oh GOD, what a creepy guy." And I was like: Yeah, I guess he is... I mean I think he probably thought it was romantic, at the time, but not so much, in context. Then again, I don't think Brian/Philip Blake really ever had much of a template for non-creepy "romantic" interactions, in any universe.)
Other than that, I've actually done some new work on Experimental Film, and also been spending time lining up new work, including a potential YA book pitch based on genderflipped TWD dynamics. And Sarah Letourneau tapped me for the following TBR Shelf Meme, so let's go.
(For anyone who’s not familiar with the acronym, TBR stands for “to be read.” Therefore, a TBR pile or TBR list consists of the books in your personal collection that you haven’t read yet.)
1. How do you keep track of your TBR list?
In my head, and I also tend to throw stuff I'm reading/planning to read into two particular areas of the apartment (a shelf under the lip of the kitchen counter vs. the bathroom magazine rack). So not very closely, and not in a highly organized fashion at all. (I sometimes keep a list of everything I've read in a year, but since the one for 2014 is definitely up over 100 entries, I stopped doing it at least four months back.)
2. Is your TBR list mostly print or ebooks?
I lost all my ebooks when I shut down my Amazon account, and I don't really have an e-reader anyway, so yeah, print is king at my house. I like to hold stuff in my hands. Makes it real.
3. How do you determine which book from your TBR list to read next?
Whatever strikes my fancy/will fit in my bag without wrecking my back. This lets out anything from Centipede Press, unfortunately.
4. What’s been on your TBR list the longest?
There's a bunch of hardbacks I got in my World Fantasy 2012 gift-bag that I still haven't cracked. Also hardbacks of Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death and Felix Gilman's The Half-Made World which I have no good excuse for not having read yet, aside from the fact that I prefer paperbacks.
5. Pick a book you recently added to your TBR list.
I'm almost through Megan Abbott's The Fever, which I added in because one of my fans really likes Abbott and I was interested in knowing why. What she actually recommended was Dare Me, but The Fever was all they had when I went looking.
6. Pick a book that’s on your TBR list strictly because of its beautiful cover.
Believe it or not, nothing. I'm not immune to the lure of a good cover, but I tend to go more on back-of-the-book or flap copy, before I put money down.
7. Pick a book on your TBR list that you’re apprehensive about reading.
I'm not really apprehensive about reading anything, but some days you want different things, and obviously there have been a lot of days when I haven't wanted whatever I thought the next title down the list was about. Stuff catches or it doesn't, I guess.
8. Pick an unpublished book on your TBR list that you’re excited for.
Whatever John Connolly's next Charlie Parker book turns out to be will probably soar right to the top, whenever it's released.;)
9. Pick a book on your TBR list that basically everyone has read but you.
I couldn't even venture a guess.
10. Pick a book on your TBR list that everyone recommends to you.
My tastes are fairly eclectic, and I can't remember the last time anyone recommended anything to me, frankly.
11. Pick a book on your TBR list that you’re dying to read.
I really want to get to the end of Jeff Vandermeer's Acceptance, the final book in his Southern Reach Trilogy, because I'm baffled with my inability to connect with it/track its action internally thus far, given how much I liked the first two books. I keep thinking there's a bunch of stuff that I'm missing, and maybe I'm simply not as smart as I always assumed I was. I also need to finish reading the rest of the stories in The Cutting Room: Dark Reflections of the Silver Screen (Ellen Datlow, ed.), for obvious reasons.
12. How many books are on your Goodreads TBR shelf?
Ha, none! 'Cause I don't have one.;)
Okay, done. Core training, then back to it.