Thanks to a friend who showed up on my doorstep a few weeks ago with a very tall stack of Elizabeth Bear books that I hadn’t yet read, my to-read shelf is looking very very yummy. For an appetizer, I’ve just had a lovely plate of Chill, which I knew would be a delight the [...]
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Comfort Reading
Comfort reading is like comfort food, only not fattening. It’s an indulgence that you give yourself when you’re stressed or tired and want something familiar and beloved. Over the years I’ve discovered that my comfort reading list is really quite short: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings; Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks; the original [...]
Want More!!
Elizabeth Bear needs to write faster. I am rapidly devouring her entire catalog and I don’t know if I can handle not having another of her books already out there in the world, waiting for me to go and buy it. I have read four of her books since July. Enjoyed them all thoroughly. Brilliant [...]
Whoa
I just finished reading Elizabeth Bear‘s Blood and Iron. It’s been a while since I’ve read a book where I could identify with and sympathise with every POV character. And most of the major secondary characters. And the couple that I couldn’t get into the skins of? I at least understood where they were coming [...]
Dear God, Somebody Help Them
Elizabeth Bear is on a writers’ retreat. It seemed to have started off pretty well, but if you follow the entries along… Well, I think there’s something seriously wrong in North Carolina, and I think it may have taken out a good number of talented writers. At least a couple of whom I like as [...]
Bears Examining: Fanfic
Elizabeth Bear weighs in on the eternal question of fanfic.
Storytime
Read Orm the Beautiful by Elizabeth Bear.
Something Beautiful
Read this: Sounding, by Elizabeth Bear.
Lions and Tigers and Bears
I’ve added a new link: They Must Need Bears, which is the Livejournal of Elizabeth Bear. You have to love a writer who blogs like this: Someday, I am going to publish a chapbook of all the sex scenes I’ve cut out of things. It will be nothing but pages and pages of in-character smut.
