Some Cool News and a Reading List

So I won a critique of a first chapter by Delia Sherman in a raffle. yea. You read that correctly. I spent most of yesterday calling Stephanie every hour to screech incoherently into the phone and then inform her I was going to die. Rinse. Repeat.

I had this whole rant ready about how much I hate Felix Harrowgate from Sarah Monette's Melusine and The Virtu but then it turned into a rant about how much I hate Astrid Lindgren's Karlsson on the Roof and I had to scrap the whole thing before it got out of control.

In an effort to bring my Russian up to speed (I.E. I read at a first grade level) I have decided to read Anderson's Fairy tales in Russian. My parents bought me the book while we were in Moscow and everything, I just need to get around to it. And then a book of Russian fairy tales in Russian. And if it isn't time to go to college yet by then, I'll blow through the five or so unread Patricia A. McKillip books currently residing on my shelf. Also I need to finish The Coyote Road and The Song of Arthur AND THEN I need to finish Mulengro by Charles de Lint, which I started a year ago and ended up not finishing because I was too busy having hysterics because of the college application process. I know I won't like it as much as I liked Jack of Kinrowan (Jack the Giant-Killer and Drink Down the Moon). Sigh.

That is all.

ConnectiCon is this Friday. (!!)