At the Tor party at Boskone, Teresa Nielsen Hayden introduced me to Jim Kelly as "a reviewer." While technically somewhat accurate (I do occasionally post book reviews), and a better answer to "Why are you at this party?" than "I'm a guy with a web site," it made me feel a little guilty for shamefully neglecting my book log these past few months.
Guilt is a wonderful spur to action, so I've posted a bunch of reviews over there this weekend, all of them at least vaguely related to Boskone:
- The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
- Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell
- Permanence by Karl Schroeder
- The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
Of course, Kate and I went on a shoppng run yesterday afternoon, during which I bought three more books (along with two external hard drives and a new printer), and another three arrived in the mail from amazon.co.uk, so I continue to acquire new books faster than I can read and review old ones. But then, there are worse problems to have...
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Were any of the new amazon.co.uk books the Bonehunters? I'm anxiously awaiting my copy.
That's it, you're outed - you are no physicist. Any physicist that I've known [1] would have looked down his nose and sneered, 'I'm a physicist', with the attitude that book reviewing, even writing, is just a matter of applied physics :)
Barry
[1] OK, one guy, in a bar, but he was really obnoxious, and helped persuade me not to work at the company that he worked at.
Were any of the new amazon.co.uk books the Bonehunters?
They were.
(That one novel probably accounted for about 75% of the weight, which I think rates a plural pronoun...)
I need to grade labs before I can read it, though.
I'm sad that my copy of Bonehunters hasn't arrived yet. Amazon.co.uk says it was sent out on the 28th, so I imagine it won't be too much longer.