| Capclave is over |
[18 Oct 2009|11:49pm] |
The convention I help run, Capclave, is over. It was a lot of work -- I programmed two tracks of general programming, workshops (and a third track when the workshops weren't running, readings, and signings. But it was also a lot of fun. Everyone seemed to have a good time.
The problem with doing programming is you get to plan all these interesting panels and then be too busy helping everything run smoothly to go to see them. Oh well, I'll see panels at World Fantasy in just a couple of weeks.
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| I am so jealous |
[13 Oct 2009|10:18pm] |
There's an interesting article in the NY Times about a woman who is reading a book a day for a year. www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/nyregion/12towns.html Back when I was in high school I probably came close to this, but now, no way. Maybe three a week, yes, but not like this. Of course, she's deliberately choosing short books, but this is still very impressive.
Anyway, Capclave is just a few days away and I'm very excited.
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| Bestsellers |
[17 Aug 2009|10:43pm] |
#5 on the Washington Post NONFICTION bestsellers list. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Yes, the nation's capital's newspaper apparently thinks this is a true story.
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| Reunion |
[08 Jun 2009|12:18am] |
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I just got back from my 20th reunion. It was surprising how few people I actually recognized. A couple of people did recognize me and we played the where do I know you from game, going through House/dorm, classes, and extracurriculars. I wasn't surprised at how much had changed, not the college itself, but the stores around it. The square has become much more conventional (a lot of the bookstores have closed and the chains are more prevalent) but still has surprises tucked away. I also found that everything was closer together than I remember. Still, despite it being 20 years since I graduated and 10 years since the last reunion I attended, being there just felt right, like I was back where I belong.
I also had a bonus, a cousin of mine married a classmate so I got to see her and her three children and I also had arranged to meet my sister, her husband, and their two kids. That was nice.
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| The boot is off |
[11 May 2009|08:29pm] |
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I went to the hospital today and got my foot X-rayed. They said it looked perfectly healed and that I could stop using the walking boot. Finally! I broke my foot way back in January, had a cast for eight weeks and this walking boot for another six weeks. It is finally over! I'm walking again. I'm a little unstead and having to teach myself how to walk all over again and to trust my leg.
The weekend was quiet otherwise. I did see a play -- Eugene O'Neil's Long Day's Journey into Night which may very well be the most depressing play I have ever seen. It was mostly well acted, although the father a few times seemed on the verge of forgetting his lines, but none of the characters were sympathetic.
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| Zoe's tale |
[18 Apr 2009|07:49pm] |
I read Zoe's Tale by John Sc alzi today. It was a fun and fast read. I think he fleshed out Zoe's character a little more than in past novels. But I don't think it really stands alone as too many important events from the Last Colony are not really explained. So this is more of a companion novel.
I liked it. It was enjoyable reading but I don't think it rises to the level of a hugo winner.
I'm going to have to read Saturn's Children sometime soon to see if that rises to Hugo level.
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| New office |
[18 Apr 2009|01:42am] |
My employer has given me a new office, right across from the old one. I went from a view of the elevator shaft to a wonderful view of the river, lots of trees, and the Kennedy Center not too far away. It is a little bigger too. I'm very happy with it.
I'm walking these days in a walking boot. It hurt somewhat the first week or so, but now is relatively painless (except sometimes when I put the heel down). I still move slowly, however.
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| I'm being paid in Taco Bell Bucks |
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I did some education work for them, and they were so happy with the job my company did that they gave us some Taco Bell Bucks.
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| Counting the days |
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Only four days left before I can get this cast off. It's gotten very old. I've been having problems finding a comfortable position for sleeping and my neck, right shoulder and top of right arm all hurt, probably from laying down all the time. So I've started sitting in a chair more which has helped some. Still even doing something as basic as shopping is a major adventure. I can't wait until Thursday. I'm hoping I can get it off completely but they'll probably put it in a walking cast and tell me to do physical therapy for a whole to recover.
I've also started watching some television, mostly DVDs, including watching my Buffy DVDs that I've had for years and years but never watched. I also watched the DVD of the movie version of Dune. I had forgotten how bad it was. All the characters had voice overs and that just doesn't work in a movie. Frankly Dune is much too long to do as a movie, it seemed more like the outline for a three-movie sequence than a coherent movie in itself. I will have to rent the SciFi (excuse me SyFy or whatever made up word they want to use) miniseries version to see if that works any better.
I've also started watching the Dresden Files television series on Hulu. My new portable can do broadcast quality video over my WiFi connection which I find really cool. Still, the books are better. I read DeadBeat this week and like all the others in the series this was fun, but I've noticed that the author is going more into the psychology of Harry and turning him into more of a tragic figure. It will be interesting in the next book to see how Harry copes with being a Warden, after years and years of hating them.
I also finished reading Joshua Palmatier's The Vacant Throne. This is the third book in his Throne series. I liked it, but not as much as the first two. I'll have a review up on sfrevu.com.
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David Weber Off Armegeddon Reef. - Considering the huge cast of characters, it is surprising that there are only three or so with any real personality. There are way too many characters and I can't keep all the names straight, especially since there is little to distinguish one character from another. And Weber doesn't really show the villains having any emotional investment in what they are doing. And that's not to mention all the advantages he gives his hero/heroine. Still, the action was gripping and I had fun reading it. The book is popcorn, but sometimes that's what you want.
Charles De Lint, Moonheart and Spiritwalk. (re-reads). I had forgotten how much of a romance Moonheart really is. And Spiritwalk really isn't a novel but a collection of themed stories/novellas. Still gripping enough that when I finished Moonheart, I went back to look for Spiritwalk and read that too. Jim Butcher Blood Rites. Poor Harry Dresden. His author never gives him an easy time. But as always fun for the reader. And Harry has to use his brains as much as his magic to solve this case. On a personal note, ten days until I get my cast off. And I've been having difficulty sleeping, I can't find a position that's comfortable for both my cast and my neck.
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| January read books |
[22 Feb 2009|12:33am] |
I never posted my January books read (and didn't keep good track so I may be missing some.
January books
Robert Butler, MD The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life. Nonfiction. New (part reread) Library. HB. Read for book club. Book on how people are living longer and the challenges that go with it. Introduction. Challenges. Science. Solutions. Cautions. And Imagining Longevity. It is best on the science part and somewhat jumpy on the rest.
Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow. (Editors) Declining by degrees : higher education at risk. New, Library. Nonfiction. A collection of chapters on higher education. Kent Greenawalt. Does God belong in public schools? New. Library. Nonfiction. A very academic treatment of this controversial subject that I found rather dry considering.
Annette Lareau. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. New. Library. Nonfiction. The author set out to compare child raising (elementary and middle school age) in low income, working class and middle class families. She found that low-income and working class parents raise their children differently from middle class parents. Middle class families use what she calls “concerted cultivation,” planning activities and training their children to discuss and reason, but also question adults. Lower income families use “accomplishment of natural growth" in which the children are much less programmed and have more time to plan their own activities but have less back and forth interaction with adults and conversation is more the parent giving orders that the child must obey. However, middle class children squabble more with their siblings and see relatives far less often than lower-class children for whom cousins, frequently nearby, are almost like siblings.
Sean McMullen, The Time Engine. Fantasy. New. Library. HB. Fourth book in the Moonworlds Saga. Finished Jan 3rd. Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian and his talking cat are taken into the future and then is marooned in the past when the time machine stops working. I thought the first two books of the series were better than the more recent two (McMullen’s take on the War of the Worlds and now The Time Machine). However, there is a very nice twist when Danolarian figures out what is really going on that caught me by surprise even though clues were set up from the beginning. The future is rather depressing, Everyone is constantly being sued so everyone works for benefits, the rich protect themselves with armies of lawyers, and “life savings confiscated for farting in public,
yet murderers are let off with a stern warning as long as they say sorry.”
I'll post more tomorrow
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| More on Boskone |
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Continuing Boskone post
On Saturday I went to a panel on future terrorism which was interesting because a number of the writers had consulted with Homeland Security and the military so couldn't talk on some aspects of the topic. They were also fairly suspicious of some government measures which they said were driven more by politics. The alternate alternate history wasn't really supposed to talk about battles but they did somewhat, asking why so many Civil War and WW2 alternate histories -- because these are the wars popular with the general American audience, leading Brit Jo Walton to wonder about the British audience and WW1.
The panel on AI and angels led to a discussion of whether AIs were possible and how we could tell. One panelist said that automated spammers are always trying to get past spam detectors programmed to allow messages from real humans to go through, so if any machine can evolve AI, that could be one way. The panel on the destruction of home was interesting on how to challenge your characters. The Sunday morning panel on Zelazny was disappointing in that most of the writers weren't there, just the editors of the new NESFA press collections of his stories (if someone wants to get me a nice present...) and Melinda Snodgrass so it mostly turned into a discussion of what was put into the first two volumes (plus Zelazny's contributions to Wildcards.)
The treachery panel was fun with writers talking about famous traitors and how they write about traitors. A couple of the writers realized that when they had characters helping the hero, they were betraying their own group. The Jewish SF panel was Tony Lewis' claim that American SF is a Jewish literature because it is optimistic. I pointed out that America was optimistic before the mass immigration of the Jews as a result of being a wide open country.
I also attended Koffeeklatches with Joshua B. Palmatier, Jim Morrow and Mike Flynn. These were not well attended but provide interesting small group discussions. The Mike Flynn table got into a discussion of statistics and logic.
A highlight was the Saturday night play of Tam Lin as Shakespeare would have done it (by Jo Walton). It was very good and could have passed for Shakespeare if it were longer.</p>
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| Coping with the leg |
[21 Feb 2009|11:19am] |
I've now had a broken leg for three weeks. It is still no fun, although I've been coping. I have a little leg caddy device that helps a lot. I got through Boskone using it rather than crutches. I lean my knee on the back pad and it has four wheels and a steering mechanism. It has a brake that isn't very good so the device is dangerous going down even a slight incline. And it is hard to get it in and out of the car. But it is still much better than crutches.
I had an appointment at the hospital a week ago and was told that I had to keep the cast for at least another six weeks. I have an appointment for March 26th and they may put me in a leg caddy then.
Boskone was nice. Everything except the panels was in one very big room. I went to a bunch of interesting panels. Science on TV: Good or Evil? which I wanted to hear more about what this means for the public perception of science but turned into more of a discussion of nonfiction science shows. The Business of 'Writing panel turnede into a tax seminar for much of it and advice on not quitting a day job. Faith in the Future was interesting about whether religions will continue (Jim Morrow was very strong on this panel), Keeping Your Series fresh was a discussion on how long a series can continue without being stale and the various techniques a writer can use to prevent becoming stale (and there was also discussion about how writers keep track. Steve Miller confessed to re-reading some old work, understandable considering how many years it has been since Liaden started).
I'll do the rest in another post
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| I fractured my foot |
[29 Jan 2009|01:06pm] |
Getting of the bus yesterday morning on my way to work, I slipped on the steps and fell. I thought I was okay but my left foot started hurting more and more as I hobbled the rest of the way.
I started working, hoping that the pain would go away. It didn't so finally I called my doctor who told me to go to an emergency room. My co-workers, who had been saying I needed to go, drove me there. It took all day just to get an X-ray but they found a fracture on the bone right above my ankle.
I'm now in a temporary splint and will have to go back for a cast. I'm on crutches (for the first time in my life) and they are saying it could take six weeks to get off them.l\
Needless to say, I'm not very happy right now.
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| Making History |
[05 Nov 2008|12:05am] |
Let's just say that the traditional Election Party at my firm was much happier today than it was four years ago.
I voted after a lengthy search of my apartment for my wallet which had somehow fallen out of my pants last night. The line in MD was only 15 minutes but some of my coworkers had horror stories of an hour plus. My company than paid for luch for the whole firm, over 100 people and then at 6:30 started the biannual election party while we watched returns. Everyone seems to be quite happy with the results!
It is rare that one realizes history is being made while it actually happens. But I think everyone will agree we just witnessed such a moment when Americans rose above their prejudices and fears and voted a black man to the Presidency.
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| March Readings |
[27 May 2008|12:21am] |
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I've fallen behind on my readings reviews. Here are a few from March
Game of School by Robert Fried. This is about how the bureaucracy and structure of school destroys students’ natural love of learning. This is basically Ted Sizer’s Horace’s Compromise but more from the student’s viewpoint rather than the teachers. And Sizer did it better. Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley. All the alien abduction stories where a person on the back roads is taken and probed by aliens are really the result of a government conspiracy designed to get people to support big military programs. But when the head of abductions is denied a promotion, he arranges for the abduction of a famous political talk show host. And the host (after his second abduction) starts a crusade to publicize alien abductions, ultimately organizing a million man march on the White House. But when the head of the program gets in trouble, he reveals the truth to Banion who loses control of his followers. This is gloriously funny satire. It’s not exactly science fiction, but would appeal to any sf reader. The Ordinary by Jim Grimsley. This is science fiction-tinged fantasy or the other way round. When people from an Earth colony decide they want more elbow room, they send a party of explorers/diplomats through a mysterious gate to a primitive world. But when the high-tech army attacks, they are defeated by magic. A translator from the SF side is invited to stay on the magic side and soon travels back into the past to learn magic herself and starts a relationship with the priestess/princess who threw the other SF people out. This is more a mood piece than an action/adventure. I liked it although I wasn’t always sure what was going on. Although a semi-sequel to Kirith Kirin, it takes place centuries later so stands alone.
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Actually I missed a few books read in February
Galactic North by Alaistair Reynolds. This is a collection of short stories set in his Revelation Space universe (note to self I only have book two of this series). The first few stories were linked by the central character, after that they were a bit more haphazard. I liked this enough to want to read the series, but feel it probably made more sense to those who read the others first.
Naked In Death by Nora Roberts writing as JD Robb. I have heard it said that science fiction is a setting, not a genre like mystery. But this book shows this true only when the sf isn't well done. This book is clearly a mystery with romance elements using science fiction trappings mainly for color. Removing the sf elements wouldn't have changed the book at all (aside from the idea that the super-rich guy is a suspect because he is one of the few people who owns guns at all. Of course, the idea that he owned a super-rare gun that was used in an effort to frame him could easily be substituted.) Unless someone hands me the rest of the series (which is how I got this one. Someone was handing out a whole bunch to Dupont Circle metro commuters) I doubt I'll read them.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell. I read this for my book club. The main idea of the book is how ideas -- and products' popularity -- spread like viruses through the efforts of Mavens who are experts in something, Connectors who know lots of people, and Salesmen who promote/sell ideas discovered by the Mavens. Then when ideas/products move past these people, they reach the tipping point where they move into general circulation. I got the impression this was a fine magazine article blown up into a book.
Territory by Emma Bull. This is an interesting fantasy/western. This is the story of Tombstone Arizona as it would be if Wyatt Earp was secretly a low-key sorcerer, able to bind men like Doc Holiday unwillingly (and unwittingly) to his service. The character of Mildred Benjamin, small town newspaper proofreader turned western short story writer, is interesting as is Doc Holiday who very reluctantly is brought to realize why he stays by the side of the Earps even when he doesn't like them. But the book seems to end very abruptly and feels incomplete. This is nowhere near as good as her War for the Oaks but is still worth reading with very good characterization.
I'll do the March books read so far in another post.
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I need to do a writeup of Boskone later. I was very good. Didn't buy a single book.
These are books I recently read:
The Algebraist, by Iain M. Banks. This is a fun space opera with lots of locations and characters to keep track of. It was fun, but I probably should reread it at some point to really understand it. The main character, Fassin Taak, is a Slow Seer, meaning that he dives (with a machine) into gas giant planets to communicate with the Dwellers there. But on one of his dives he makes a discovery about a secret Dweller wormhole network that leads to an intergalactic war. Worse yet, he is secretly spying for one of the sides of the conflict. One doesn’t need to know the other Culture books to understand this one and the Dweller civilization is a fascinating culture, very different than the human and other alien groups, sometimes to their mutual frustration. Highly recommended.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. This is only borderline fantasy but a wonderful novel about the early days of the comic industry. Two Jewish cousins, one of whom just escaped Hitler’s Europe, create a comic book character, the Escapist, based on Joe Kavalier’s own training in stage magic and escape artistry. The sole fantasy element is that the Golem of Prague was real and Kavalier and his mentor smuggle it out of Hitler’s army’s grasp. This is a very well written novel, that deserved its Pulitzer prize. Very highly recommended.
Axis by Robert Charles Wilson. This is a sequel to Spin, although that novel’s characters are only mentioned in passing. The novel is set on the second planet linked to Earth at the end of Spin. A group of humans have engineered a human with some alien genes to communicate with the Hypotheticals, the aliens who moved Earth into the far future. The main character, Lise, stumbles on this in the course of investigating her long-vanished father. This is interesting, but nowhere near as engrossing as Spin.
Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon. I wanted to like the book more than I did. In it, star pilot Titus Quinn is compelled to return to an alternate universe, called the Entire, that apparently killed his wife, enslaved his daughter, and shattered his memories. Very slowly, he learns that some in the Entire have ways of observing his universe, which they call the Rose, and have copied humans genetically to be servants and adopted some parts of Earth culture. But there is a secret plan to destroy Earth’s universe in order to power this Entire. Quinn has to choose between warning Earth and trying to rescue his daughter. The problem with this book is that much of it is focused on Quinn’s trying to discover what really happened on his last visit to the Entire. I’d wait to see if the second book is better before recommending this one.
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One of the things I'm going to be doing in 2008 is keeping more of a record of what I've read
Recently read
The Margarets: A Novel, by Sheri Tepper This goes on my Hugo ballot. This is Tepper’s best novel in years. While it certainly has political undertones, they don’t dominate the story, although they do compel the plot into motion.
In The Margarets, Earth has become greatly over-populated and environmentally ruined. Excess children are sent to colony worlds or into indentured servitude to one of the many alien races. Margaret grows up on Phobos, where she is the only child. So she invents imaginary selves to be playmates – a queen, a warrior, a spy, shaman, telepath, healer, and linguist. At various decision points in her life, she unknowingly splits and one of these alternate selves takes one path while the rest of her goes another way. For most of the novel I thought the lack of explanation for how she splits was a major weakness of the book as a science fiction, as opposed to fantasy, novel, but Tepper does come up with a legitimate rationale.
Since Margaret is one of the few humans trained in alien languages, her selves have unusual contacts with the aliens and gradually uncover a huge conspiracy by several of the aliens to wipe out the human race. But actually, the human race is doing a good job of that ourselves, largely because we have no racial memory the way all the good-guy aliens do. The only solution is to meet the mysterious Keeper and get him to agree to give the humans a racial memory. But the Keeper has long ago shut himself off from the universe. And the only clue is an ancient legend about a being that can walk seven roads at once.
This is a big, exciting, complex novel. Even people who have been turned off by Tepper’s other works should give it a try.
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. This is essentially a superhero novel. The two viewpoint characters are Doctor Impossible, evil genius who is always trying to rule the world, and Fatale, a new superheroine who has just joined The (New) Champions, her world’s only superhero team (an older team existed but had disbanded). This is a fun, quick read, but has only a little more depth than a good comic book. Grossman has fun inventing really weird origins for his characters, not all of which are accurate. And, his world has a history; one of the characters is the daughter of two members of the earlier superteam. The biggest flaw, is even though half the book is narrated by Doctor Impossible, we never get a sense of why he keeps trying to take over the world in such a fashion that regularly gets himself beat up by the heroes and thrown in jail, instead of by patenting his inventions or becoming rich on wall street.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Technically, I read it in the waning days of 2007 while at my father’s house, so doesn’t count as a January read book. But I liked it so much that I bought my own copy.
Despite the name, this is a novel. It starts out with a troubled college student, still partially traumatized by the events of her senior high school year. Gradually, she tells the story of moving into a new town, being befriended by a charismatic teacher and the popular crowd. And then events happen, and the teacher dies (not a spoiler, this is mentioned on the second page.) But then Blue investigates and learns what might be the truth that turns everything in the novel upside down (or at least as much as possible in a non-sf/fantasy novel. The best part is the voice of Blue. She’s a super genius raised by a college professor and is always citing literary references and films (with author and date). Knowing too much about the novel will ruin some of the surprises. But it is very much worth reading. Highly recommended.
Only Connect: The Way to Save Our Schools by Dr. Rudy Crew with Thomas Dyja. Half-autobiography and half-educational reflections, I found the book overly-general and not convincing. But I work in this field and this is intended for general audiences so that may explain why I kept saying, ‘that’s obvious’ and ‘yes, but HOW?’.
A Bill of Rights for 21st Century America by Joseph F. Coates
I read this for the futurist book club that meets at Politics & Prose. I didn’t like this. The genius of our constitution, including the bill of rights is that it is general enough that it can be flexible and interpreted to meet different needs. The author would clutter the bill of rights with highly specific “rights” that would probably need replacing in another 50 years. Does the constitution really need provisions for spam?
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As you might guess, I'm on vacation, which is how I'm reading so much lately
I read a few more Pratchett books.
Wee Free Men, by Pratchett. This is somewhat more of a juvenile than the other Pratchetts, even more so than the other Tiffany books. I liked it, although not as much as the later Tiffany books. I couldn't help wondering about what was the audience for the book since the character is a little too young for most of the humor and teens rarely want to read about a character younger than they are, but I can't see many eight year olds understanding much of what was going on here.
Thief of Time, by Pratchett. I really like this one. There was the concept of the history monks and the saving of time, spreading it out as needed and patching various centuries as needed. Susan was also a wonderful character, and it was interesting how her time stopping powers meshed with the time monk. And chocolate as a deadly weapon.
Thud by Pratchett. I liked this more so than most of the other Vimes novels. It was interesting on the importance of history, the effects of prejudice and Vimes' effort to confront his. And Vimes' definition of being a good father, in that it didn't matter what else he did as long as he was there at 6 pm on the dot to read the same book to the child, was very funny. I also liked the parody of the blackberry, the gooseberry.
Mort by Pratchett. This was a re-read of a book I own (the others here were library books). This is one of my favorites. Death takes an apprentice who eventually marries Death's (adopted) daughter. The efforts of Death to seem human were very good. And the troubles of the well meaning apprentice built up to devastating effect. A few problems in that the ending was too easy, Death shouldn't be able to reverse people's deaths so easily or he does bear the responsibility for everyone who gets killed. And if Susan's father is a duke, why is she a school teacher in Thief of Time.
Thursday Next, First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde. This is hilarious in a very different way from Pratchett. Thursday is sort of a literary special agent, able to jump into books. Book characters have very different lives sometimes from the way they are portrayed and there's lots on the mechanics of books (which don't work the way you think, each reading is really a performance). And Thursday is the mentor for two different versions of herself, one from the more violent versions of books 1-4, and one from the lighter, sweeter book 5 (that got remaindered).
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