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Something new to read every day--a fantastic idea from fantastic people.

From various places around my flist--the silent version of Matrix--without the endless newage yaddayadda and with pies!

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Yesterday was a day for running errands with

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Starting on Monday, I will no longer be online during business hours. I'll be leaving my house by 7:30am and will not be home until around 6pm.

I will be reachable via email as usual, but won't be doing more than cursory checks during the day, except during my lunch hour when I'll be checking in briefly across the board.

This means that all of the projects that I usually do online will shift exclusively to evenings between 9pm and midnight at the latest.

If you're looking for me or need to reach me, an email to my gmail account will go right to my blackberry - beth.kelleher at gmail dot com.

You can also IM/Text me through LJ and it will go to my phone if it's urgent.

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Sarah Palin plans to exploit the murder of US troops for personal gain. What an ASSHOLE. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/13/palin-to-visit-fort-hood-during-book-tour/

Some quick notes. I've been reading a lot of books as the Nebula season nears under its new rules. My concern is really the Andre Norton Award. I hope it will take off on its own soon, because award processes of any sort remind me too much of playground hierarchy games to get serious about them, but on the other tentacle, I promised Andre not long before she died that I would do my best to see this through. It was close to her heart--so close she'd intended her estate to go to the award . . . but there wasn't an estate.

But the generous thought was there. And when I was pimping the award to SFWA to sponsor, I went around to a whole lot of teacher, librarian, and reading-related cons to ask if such an award would do any good. In the adult fiction world, I doubt that they make much difference, but in the kidzlit world, there are the gatekeepers who buy for kids--librarians and teachers. And the result was overwhelmingly positive: "Awards get books to the front of the [ever shrinking] book buying budget." Heard that over and over. Genre books had that extra crapload of prejudice because so many librarians and teachers and administrators seem to equate fantasy with frivolous, and sf with boring.

So here I am, on the jury yet again--of course the upside is a metric butt-ton of free books. And I am a fast reader. (Except on screen. Very slow, when books compete for computer time, but I am in the process of fixing that.)

Anyway I'm seeing a trend here in this particular range of books read over the past couple of months--and wanted to throw it out there to see how others feel. Maybe it's not actually a problem, except to me, being a visual reader.

That is, the problem of the first person narrator in presenting visual cues--the narrator saying things like My lips thinned as listened to her lies. or My brown hair swept over my ears, reaching my shoulder blades. And in one example (paraphrased slightly) My eyes scorched his icy blue gaze.

So what I'm seeing is the narrator pausing the action in order to whip out the mirror . . . no, that's not right. They're not stopping the action in order to peruse themselves, but it feels like that. Like their own looks are as important as the interactions with the other characters. Yet I'm good with the narrator reporting on what they can actually see. (Jane's lips thinned as she listened to her sister's lies. or Jane's lips thinned as I spun out my lies.) But as soon as I get My lips thinned as Jane spun out her lies I've got the mental image of the narrator holding a mirror between herself and Jane. Is anyone else jostled out of the story by that?

(And I still get too-vivid mental YouTube filmclips when eyes scorch, light, blaze, glow, sear, smolder, stab, and especially glue. "Her green eyes glued to his face . . ." ouch ouch ouch)

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This is an awesome ad from a bank in Argentina; it was actually produced in 2007.



Thanks to sidhefire

Everything I was supposed to do today instead of napping and playing Chromatron.

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( So I read spoilers and drank two glasses of wine before watching the episode )

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i went to the implant dentist today. the implants have integrated well with the bone, and so in a few weeks he will take off the tops, put on the fittings, and then i go straight down to my regular guy who will take an impression and make me temporary teeth.

soon i will have bottom molars again

i can't wait to stop eating what is, basically, pre-chewed food.