Jo Walton ([info]papersky) wrote,
@ 2009-03-05 09:00:00
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What I've been re-reading
My recent posts on Tor.com:

Real world reading for fantasy writers. The Sky Road. Who's human anyway? Who's free? Octavia Butler's Pattern series. Octavia Butler's Survivor. A wish for something different at the frontier. Middlemarch and SF. Angelica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. The Speed of Dark. Horizon. Philip Jose Farmer obit. The Great World Novel. Lavinia..

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[info]aedifica
2009-03-05 02:47 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. I've mostly stopped following tor.com now that the LJ syndication for it's feed is broken (in a non-fixable way--I asked), but I want to keep reading your posts there. You mostly like and dislike the same things in books that I do, it seems, so for me your recommendations are very good!

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[info]papersky
2009-03-05 03:32 pm UTC (link)
I always appreciate your comments. I don't know anything about RSS feeds, unfortunately.

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[info]aedifica
2009-03-05 04:09 pm UTC (link)
The feed isn't anything you or I could fix. LJ has a size restriction on its syndicated feeds, and Tor's RSS feed is now big enough that it's over the limit. And that's about the limit of what I know about RSS feeds, gleaned from asking people on both ends what could be done to fix this broken thing.

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[info]papersky
2009-03-05 07:53 pm UTC (link)
Well, more usefully, I can post links more often.

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[info]aedifica
2009-03-05 09:12 pm UTC (link)
I would enjoy and appreciate that, if it's not a trouble to you!

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[info]patty1943
2009-03-05 03:40 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for the real world reading for fantasy writers. I just bought a book on candlesticks and rushlights... It was on a sale table and is full of stuff I never thought of in relation to light when there are no light switches. Even tells how to make rushlights. It is really and antique collectors book, but with more info...
I read Ha'penny in one day and am now waiting for Half a Crown. You are one hell of a writer!

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[info]papersky
2009-03-05 03:52 pm UTC (link)
Thank you.

What's the title of the rushlights book? That's just the sort of thing that's useful to know. We get so used to having light at the flick of a switch that even thinking about the mindset of people who have to make an effort to get light after sunset can be challenging.

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[info]patty1943
2009-03-05 04:05 pm UTC (link)
Fire & Light in the Home: pre 1820 by John Caspall, published by Antique Collectors Club in England. What it was doing on a sale table at an independent bookseller in Gainesville, FL, I have no idea. Two other books I like are the Greenland Mummies which explains how they made clothing and other stuff, and the Man in the Ice which does ditto for the stone age man they found in the Alps.
Do you have other recommendations?

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[info]papersky
2009-03-05 05:14 pm UTC (link)
Mine are all in that post!

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[info]patty1943
2009-03-05 08:43 pm UTC (link)
Sorry. I was reading so fast I didn't even notice you wrote it.

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You should read Sunflowers and a Rushlight
[info]ethelmay
2009-03-05 10:52 pm UTC (link)
a short story by Juliana Horatia Ewing. It's available in a collection on Google Books.

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[info]zsero
2009-03-06 12:38 am UTC (link)
$60 for a second-hand copy of Survivor! Gosh. My copy is (probably) in a box in my parents' shed, half a planet away, or I'd be tempted to dig it out and sell it. But I'd have to reread it first, because it's been about 20 years.

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