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Hello and happy weekend! It’s Saturday, and I’m pecking away at my computer, so you know what that means! You do, right? Of course you do. It’s time for our grand tour back into time to see what happened here at Speculative Chic this week!
The tour bus will be departing in just a few moments, so make sure you have snacks, a beverage of your choosing, and your travel buddy.
Hopefully your travel buddy isn’t still packing, as mine seems to be. (No, you can’t bring the ball and the stuffed toy, pick ONE.) Ahem. Anyway, please find your seats and remember the rules! No flash photography (it startles the writers), keep all limbs safely tucked away inside the bus, do not feed the bus, and if a writer approaches the bus, stay calm, do not break eye contact, and offer cookies. That generally works.
Are we ready? Great, let’s go!
Monday
Monday means My Favorite Things, which usually means that we have a fantastic guest writer, introducing you to the things that are delighting and amusing them the most at the present. This week’s guest was author Alice Reeds! What does Alice love best right now? “A video game that feels all too real, a science fictional concept album, a television show that backs its fiction with science, another television show that demands every bit of your attention, and life-changing anime.” Go see what she’s talking about!
Tuesday
Merrin, who does not like Game of Thrones very much, found a very GoT-esque series for those who are fond of vikings and big, historical fantasies. My own towering TBR stack grew after I read her review of The Half-Drowned King. See if that happens to you! (No spoilers.)
Wednesday
Andrea Judy also helped me grow my monstrous TBR pile with her review of Delilah S. Dawson’s Servants of the Storm. Dawson’s one of those writers who wanders around and plays in whatever part of the sandbox that looks the most interesting at any given moment. You never know what she’s going to write next! At any rate, give Andrea’s review a peek and see if you’re as interested in this book as I am! (No spoilers here, either.)
Thursday
Venessa Giunta continued her Con Season on a Budget series with another extremely useful article this week: how to navigate the tricky waters of where to stay when one attends an out-of-town convention. I reside in a small city, which hosts a small, but respectable convention every year (George R.R. Martin was the Guest of Honor a few years ago!), so if I want to get a good con fix, I have to travel. I’ve picked up some great information from Venessa’s posts, and her latest one is fantastic.
Thursday afternoon, Kelly McCarty reviewed The Art of Starving, which is a nominee for the first-ever World Science Fiction Society award for Best Young Adult novel (to be awarded during this year’s Hugo ceremony). Check out her review! (No spoilers. There is a brief discussion of eating disorders.)
Friday
Nancy O’Toole Meservier finished out our week with her argument in favor of The Stormlight Archive (by Brandon Sanderson) winning this year’s Hugo for Best Series. Do you agree with her? Not familiar with this series? We’ve got you covered! (Personally, I’m rooting for InCryptid!)
Book Club
You still have almost two weeks to finish Jo Walton’s Among Others for this month’s book club discussion! Folks, even I’m going to be participating this month, and it’s been a while since I’ve done so. So read with us, then come to our virtual book club meeting on August 24th and watch me babble! (I’m just really enjoying this book so much, and I want other people to join in on the love.)
This concludes our weekly tour! I hope that you’ve had an excellent trip! Please gather your personal belongings and exit the bus in an orderly fashion. All un-used writer cookies should be deposited in the basket. If you’ve had a nice time this week, please join us again next week, when we shall take another fantastic voyage back through time.
I meant what I said about not feeding the bus. Do so at your own risk.
Catbus from My Neighbor Totoro © Studio Ghibli
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