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My Big Plans
Mar. 21st, 2009 11:33 amToday I will either shave or not shave.
Mar. 21st, 2009
Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
21. Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land by Sue Murphy Mote.
22. Meet Me In the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich. Hard to believe I hadn't read this yet, as it's one of the first two books Small Beer Press ever published. I'd read a handful of the stories, though, in F&SF and other places, including some that I didn't realize were Ray's, like "Mom's Little Friends," which is probably my favorite story about nanites ever. Vukcevich's stories are truly short and truly strange, in the good way: they're difficult to get a handle as you're reading them, and rarely explain themselves when they're done. They are absurdist and funny and often romantic. I feel like they could be a litmus test of some sort, too; if you can read the line "Molly had come down with suit in the springtime" at the start of "By the Time We Get to Uranus" and know pretty much what's happening, then you may be a genre reader.
Books 11-20.
21. Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land by Sue Murphy Mote.
22. Meet Me In the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich. Hard to believe I hadn't read this yet, as it's one of the first two books Small Beer Press ever published. I'd read a handful of the stories, though, in F&SF and other places, including some that I didn't realize were Ray's, like "Mom's Little Friends," which is probably my favorite story about nanites ever. Vukcevich's stories are truly short and truly strange, in the good way: they're difficult to get a handle as you're reading them, and rarely explain themselves when they're done. They are absurdist and funny and often romantic. I feel like they could be a litmus test of some sort, too; if you can read the line "Molly had come down with suit in the springtime" at the start of "By the Time We Get to Uranus" and know pretty much what's happening, then you may be a genre reader.