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in the last few weeks, i've read:

• Solis, A.A. Attanasio


• The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan


• The Vampire Sextette, ed. Marvin Kaye


• Guilty, But Insane, Poppy Z. Brite


• Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card


• Fantasy & Science Fiction, September


• Merrick, Anne Rice


• Taltos, Anne Rice


• Lasher, Anne Rice

well, those were on my bedside table, which i last cleaned off right before NYE. i've read various other online publications, magazines, newspapers, cereal boxes, local weeklies, fairy tales, etc. And yes, I was re-reading the Rice stuff. I do that from time to time, esp ecially if something else is coming out in a series or if i'm having a hard time finding stuff to read.

Now... I have

• Blackwood Farm, Anne Rice


• Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan


• Weird Tales, Issue #330


• Four Fantasy & ScienceFiction issues, Sept 02-Feb03


• Plastic Jesus, Poppy Z. Brite


• Wrong Things, Poppy Z. Brite and Caitlin R. Kiernan

I'm not sure what to read next. Ideally, I'd like to re-read the first nine books before reading the Jordan novel. That would probably take two-three weeks. I've had the Brite and Brite/Kiernan novels for a long time, I just forgot about them. I also didn't see where boy put the F&SF issues, so I'm behind on those, but that gives me something to read when my favorite authors (Dan Simmons, Tom Robbins, Atwood) haven't put anything out.

In addition, I'd like to re-read the Harry Potter series before the next book comes out. Those are a very quick read, for tunate ly, maybe two-three days at most.

i also have a lot of dale brown books, but i'm missing Hammerhead, so I won't read anymore til I find it at a used bookstore. Likewise, I'm missing a book from one of Fred Saberhagen's vampire series. I h ave oth er Attanasio novels I've picked up on the cheap... and various other used books that look interesting (usually spy/war thrillers, my weakness).

and i could always do myself a favor and make myself read something in russian or watch all my Tarkov sky film s.

Hrm. Maybe I'll take the Anne Rice book to bed tonight. I usually read for half an hour every night, waiting for the melatonin to kick in, and I've had lots of dense SciFi most recently (Attanasio is a skillful writer, but even his short vo lumes are chock-ful of convoluted phrases) and could use some run-on sentences about vampires.

then again, february's F&SF's promises of R. Garcia y Robinson, LeGuin, and Porges is trying to tempt me...



in other news... i attempted to make ket tle corn tonight. unbleached natural sugar does not make good kettle corn. furthermore, boiling oil+sugar = burns on my hand. OW.

maybe i should go roll in some borshch...