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Oct. 27th, 2012 04:36 pmI ought to give you the highlights of my first day at CoyoteCon. I wasn't there long - I got part of one panel (on steampunk) and then had my own (on ethnicity). Fortunately, the transcript will be online after the Con and you can admire my appalling typing and everyone else's great sagacity. I'm not convinced I did a good job trying to explain Australia's quite particular racisms and how we catalogue differences.
My next task is to read two articles I totally want to read. Oh, how tough my life is! Also to finish a rather good Aurealis novel.
Six more Aurealis books arrived last week, so I have an internal flame that says "Gotta catch up." I also have twenty-six books to read still, so it will take more than a couple of days.*
I have a list somewhere, with other tasks on it, but I have mislaid it and can't do them yet. Given that the amount of work in my next few weeks has unexpectedly increased (not the paid work, alas) I really need to be a bit more disciplined. Still, two articles and a novel will surely take me through the next two hours? I can worry about the list after dinner.
One thing I haven't mislaid is a rather interesting book review of Ms Cellophane. Sorry if I've mentioned it elsewhere. My aim is not to haunt all my friends with a single book review. The thing is that I wasn't expecting this reviewer to like it, based on an earlier review he did. And he did like it!
*Yes, I read the whole of each book still. It helps me learn about writing and it means that I'm being fair on each author. Even the ones who write unpalatably bad books (so far rare) have put a lot of work into their novels and it would be rude of me not to dignify their work with due attention. If I were reading for an award that included hundreds of volumes, then this would not be a good approach, but with forty-odd (at most) it's just a matter of reading steadily for a few weeks.
My next task is to read two articles I totally want to read. Oh, how tough my life is! Also to finish a rather good Aurealis novel.
Six more Aurealis books arrived last week, so I have an internal flame that says "Gotta catch up." I also have twenty-six books to read still, so it will take more than a couple of days.*
I have a list somewhere, with other tasks on it, but I have mislaid it and can't do them yet. Given that the amount of work in my next few weeks has unexpectedly increased (not the paid work, alas) I really need to be a bit more disciplined. Still, two articles and a novel will surely take me through the next two hours? I can worry about the list after dinner.
One thing I haven't mislaid is a rather interesting book review of Ms Cellophane. Sorry if I've mentioned it elsewhere. My aim is not to haunt all my friends with a single book review. The thing is that I wasn't expecting this reviewer to like it, based on an earlier review he did. And he did like it!
*Yes, I read the whole of each book still. It helps me learn about writing and it means that I'm being fair on each author. Even the ones who write unpalatably bad books (so far rare) have put a lot of work into their novels and it would be rude of me not to dignify their work with due attention. If I were reading for an award that included hundreds of volumes, then this would not be a good approach, but with forty-odd (at most) it's just a matter of reading steadily for a few weeks.