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October 2024 Books and Reading Notes

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October was quite busy so I didn’t read as much as I would have liked. But what I did read was most excellent!

Acquisitions

Books acquired in the month of October 2024.

  1. Morgan Talty, Fire Exit (And Other Stories) [2024.10.02]
  2. Michael J. DeLuca, The Jaguar Mask (Stelliform Press) [2024.10.06]
  3. Dave Klecha and Tobias J. Buckell, The Runes of Engagement (Tachyon Publications) [2024.10.06]

Reading List

Books

Books I read in October 2024.

  1. Jorge Luis Borges – Conversations [2024.10.10]
  2. Dave Klecha and Tobias J. Buckell, The Runes of Engagement [2024.10.14]
  3. Jack Ridl, All At Once [2024.10.17]
  4. Norah Lange, Notes from Childhood [2024.10.25]
Posted in Book ListTagged And Other Stories, Dave Klecha, Jack Ridl, Jorge Luis Borges, Michael J. DeLuca, Morgan Talty, Norah Lange, Tobias S. Buckell comment on October 2024 Books and Reading Notes

Weekly Round-up, October 26, 2024

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Dawn over Michigan Street

[ Just before sunrise, facing east down Michigan Street at the Union Avenue intersection. ]

This past week was one of the busiest and most hectic weeks of my year, so I didn’t accomplish much that wasn’t work or class or home maintenance.

Reading

Currently reading Norah Lange‘s Notes From Childhood, and it is gorgeous!

Writing

I have changed the name of the MC in my WIP to Thomas, because “Cacophonous Thomas” rolls off the tongue so nicely. Bob, as a protagonist name, is just a little too generic.

Weekly Writing Prompt

Subject: Empire, Politics
Setting: Labyrinth
Genre: Literary Fiction

Listening

This year I created a playlist for my novel, and the soundtrack to The Naked Lunch was the first addition.

Interesting Links

  • “Some People Just Want to Watch the Internet Burn.” (Peter Watts)
  • “The Whirlpool of the Artificial” (Kevin Munger, Crooked Timber)
  • “Speculative Whiteness by Jordan S. Carroll” (Camestros Felapton) – A good review of the book recently published by University of Minnesota Press. Just as interesting as Felapton’s review are the post comments by Kat Goodwin, which add some useful context to the review, and to the book.
  • “Sol Yurick on Trying to Find Any Trace of His Novel, The Warriors, on the Big Screen” (Sol Yurick, LitHub)
Posted in LifeTagged Camestros Felapton, Kat Goodwin, Norah Lange, Peter Watts, Sol Yurick comment on Weekly Round-up, October 26, 2024

Weekly Round-up, October 19, 2024

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Painted stones fond beside the Dragon Trail at Hardy Dam.

[Painted stones found beside the Dragon Trail at Hardy Dam.]

This past week was hectic. Far more hectic than I would have expected on a week off. But my week off coincided with the kickoff of a new project, which I am leading, so I had to pop in to a couple of meetings when I would much rather have been walking in the woods or otherwise not staring at a computer screen or listening to other people talk.

But I did manage to accomplish some of the things I set out to work on for the week. My house is slightly improved. Our cats are verified healthy. I am too, as of my first physical in over a decade.

Reading

I finished the Borges interviews, and for a change of pace picked up Runes of Engagement by Dave Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell. I know Klecha from the ConFusion science fiction convention, where we are both volunteers and occasional members of the ConCom, and he has been most helpful as I learn the ins and outs of helping to manage a science fiction convention. I met Buckell at ConFusion several years ago. He is a Righteous Dude.

Runes of Engagement was a fun read, and light, and I finished it in a couple of days. Next I read Jack Ridl’s new poetry collection All At Once, which was absolutely beautiful. Some of the poems moved me to tears, which almost never happens. Ridl is a treasure.

Now I am reading Norah Lange‘s Notes from Childhood, which I acquired several years ago from my subscription to And Other Stories. I might have missed this one, except that Lange is mentioned more than once in the Borges interview collection, and so was floating near the surface of my subconscious.

Writing

With my little extra free time I began organizing my notes for the upcoming Month of Writing. Since I am no longer participating in National Novel Writing Month, I am instead participating in “That November Thing”, an event coordinated by the West Michigan Author Alliance, that which used to be the Ottawa County/Grand Rapids region for NaNoWriMo.

Weekly Writing Prompt

Subject: Apocalypse, Precursors
Setting: Battlefield
Genre: Lovecraftian

Listening

Interesting Links

Posted in LifeTagged Dave Klecha, Jack Ridl, John Zorn, NaNoWriMo, Norah Lange, Tobias S. Buckell, West Michigan Author Alliance comment on Weekly Round-up, October 19, 2024

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