Category Archives: reading

I seem to love stories about bears

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Pat Bowne

I’m half-way through The Secret History of Fantasy and this is the story I’ve enjoyed the most: Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson. What a fine story this is! It felt completely real from beginning to end, and like the best fantasies … Continue reading →

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Rose Red Review, Winter 2014: response 1

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Pat Bowne

Living up to my demand that bloggers actually review SFF instead of just telling us how it should be done. Though I am not good at the straight review, more at musing about things… anyway, the boom in SFF short … Continue reading →

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Cue Bitter Laughter

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Pat Bowne

Well, I did it. I persevered all the way through The Worm Ouroborus, though it seemed endless (yes, I know what I did there). I said to myself, ‘The writing is so beautiful, and eventually this stupid war nonsense has … Continue reading →

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Sometimes it all just fits together

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Pat Bowne

Yesterday my class discussed Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. Then I came home and read an article about how Rachel Swirsky had spit in the faces of working men everywhere by writing a story in which three anonymous characters in a … Continue reading →

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BookRiot Reading Challenge – BINGO!

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Pat Bowne

One of my FB friends dared a bunch of us to do the BookRiot reading challenge. But her rules said we couldn’t share the names of the books we read until the challenge was over, so it has caused an … Continue reading →

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Authors Behaving Badly

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Pat Bowne

Seriously? An author traveling to another country to track down a reviewer who panned him, and attacking her in a grocery store? An author stalking a negative reviewer, going to her house and looking into her car? This is bat-shit. … Continue reading →

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But This May All Be Wrong…

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Pat Bowne

I read an award-winning fantasy novel for tonight’s book club meeting. It won one of the many awards given out by the fan community, and that is only right because the book is basically about the fan community. In fact, … Continue reading →

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Kicking and Screaming

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Pat Bowne

Here’s what I want: I want a dollar for every hour I’ve spent changing my life to cope with unnecessary upgrades. Why am I ranting? Right now, it’s because of Windows 7. Our school implemented Windows 7 over the summer, … Continue reading →

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The Babbling Internet

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Pat Bowne

I get a few hundred links a week in my RSS aggregator, and guess which ones I get the least out of? The ones that send me to a page with a two-line teaser and embedded video of a talking … Continue reading →

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Dystopian visions — are you doing anything?

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Pat Bowne

When I was young, there was a commercial my parents loved. It was for some allergy medicine or other, and it showed a bored little boy sitting on the porch steps. From inside the house came his mother’s voice: “Johnny, … Continue reading →