Aw.

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One of the slugs who'd left for the summer came by tonight to visit -- he was in the area doing some training thing for his job -- which of course has kicked me off to new heights of "aww, I miss everyone". Most of the gang won't be back till the end of August, but that's not stopping me from (somewhat-less-than-)secretly thinking "c'mon people, get back to slugfest already."

In other news, I read the latest Harry Potter and was unimpressed. On reflection I think it's because this one seemed to be very much a part of a series -- a few tricks picked up from the last book and tons of setup for the next one -- but I haven't read the other books in ages and it'll be ages before I read the next one (obviously, just like everyone else), so looking at it all by itself it just didn't do it for me. *shrugs* It's possible I just read it too fast. But I don't even feel the need to comment or speculate on INSERT HUGE SPOILER HERE. Huh.

On the other hand I did enjoy it more than Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver. I've really liked everything else I've read by him, but I couldn't bring myself to care about most of the book's huge, sprawling cast, and so it took me more than a month I think to slowly progress through the hundreds of pages till the end. I won't be reading the sequels.

This is where I should comment on a book I've really adored lately but none is coming to mind. Oh! I know, I read Cory Doctorow's three novels a week or two ago, and found all of them engaging and interesting both in terms of characters and ideas. Free downloads here -- yup, free, you can read about why there too -- go read, they're fantastic.

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i heart cory doctorow. he taught at our sister writing workshop in michigan this summer, and we'd been hoping we might see him at one of our parties here - but no luck. have you read his short stories? he's got a really funny superman one, as well as a "sequel" story to down and out in the magic kingdom.