Soup Dish: book people are talking about...
✽The most interesting discussion I've been involved in recently, I came to late by way of Pamela's excellent post, which includes all the good links leading up to it by Sunita and Janet and Laura and others.. I often feel kind of at sea in these discussions, as a non-academic and a non-publishing-pro. Perhaps I just lack the power of conviction, but watching so many people make declarative statements about How Things Are, and what Can and Can't happen These Days is always a bit bemusing. To me, there are a thousand different ways to be a blogger, and a thousand different ways to be an author, and a thousand different other ways to be involved with the romance genre. Do what works. If it stops working, you can stop doing it. The beautiful thing about people doing stuff on the internet that you don't like, is that you don't have to be a consumer of it. Vote with your feet. Or your clicks, if you will.
Though one result of this rich discussion is that it is making me want to get out of my feedreader more and participate in the discussions. Like in the Old Days.
What I'm reading
It's been a busy couple of weeks around here; either I haven't been reading very much or I can't remember what I've read... I don't know which is worse!
✽Vixen in Velvet, by Loretta Chase. (eARC provided by HarperCollins Avon.) All I'm going to say right now is, if you are a person who preorders-- go ahead and do that.
✽Between the Devil and Ian Eversea, by Julie Ann Long. The latest in the Pennyroyal Green series, and an absolute winner. Sharp and sweet. Also, one of my favorite titles ever-- doesn't it just make you smile?
✽Beyond Jealousy, by Kit Rocha. I completely love this post-apocalyptic world. As always, the erotica is hot hot hot, but the world-building is deepening too. I like how the series arc is building up.
✽Too Hot to Handle, by Victoria Dahl. One of my favorite contemporary authors. I'm not very far along, but it's fun so far.
✽Here's one of those exceptions to my new "no review copy" policy: I have Nalini Singh's Shield of Winter in my hands right now and brrrrrrr, IT IS SO GOOD. Soooooooooo good.
Outlander Watch... Och. I canna wait for Jamie and Claire onscreen.
✽I'm a long ways from being the most obsessed fan of Outlander out there, but I've subscribed to the Starz newsletter, and follow a number of folks on Twitter who are involved with the project, and keep up in several ways. Out on the internet, there are a fair number of shirtless Jamie photos, beautiful images of the Scottish countryside and the castles involved in shooting, but somehow this is the most haunting image I've seen lately. Outlander is about modern sensibilities crashing into historical ones, and while this is a different modernity than the book and neither Jamie nor Clare is in it, it is wholly in the spirit of the book on several levels:
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| Courtesy of writer/producer Matt Roberts' Twitter feed. |
1 comment:
I am so hoping I will be able to watch the Outlander series too. I don't know if it will be even aired in Australia or if so, on what network. We have cable tv as well as free to air but we don't suscribe to the movie channels (everything else but!) and some of the shows (like Game of Thrones for instance) are on the channels we don't get. I'm hoping I might be able to buy a season pass or something via Microsoft or iTunes or something. Fingers are crossed.
I don't watch a lot of tv these days but that it something I'm going to want and I expect I will watch it more than once! (I'm sucha tragic! LOL).
I have finally got myself subscribed to your feed now so I won't miss posts. If it's not right in front of my face these days, I tend to miss them.
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