Jun 29
A lot of people want to be Adele Bloch-Bauer II, but very few actually do anything about it. Despite it being so hot that I don’t want to go outside at all, I wanted to have my wall back even more, so I decided that this was the weekend to finish this project. Or, at …
Jun 26
Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier This book nicely ends a very well done YA trilogy that you should read if you like time travel, secret societies, steampunk-ish fantasy, or cute YA romances. In this novel, the heroine figures out one of the secrets that I figured out in the first book, and the hero and …
Jun 26
I decided that since in theory someone may actually want to keep this painting when it’s done, I should make the face look like the real face and not like my placeholder. So I painted it white and started over. I also fixed the hands, which were missing some fingers. I had done a …
Jun 24
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie This is one of the most complex books I’ve read in a long time. It’s hard science fiction of the sort that explores notions of guilt and consciousness and AI and class privilege. It spans centuries, and has two different viewpoints, one from a ship who had many ancillaries, and …
