You have more guts than me! The whole idea gives me the flaming fantods! I did try, once, years back, and the assorted silences and form rejections were...hard. Actually, the rejections weren't so bad. The silences were.

I have felt that way for some years. Life just isn't long enough to actually live it while getting all the reading done!

My favorite of hers is Wild Seed. It was such a...a strong, weird, wild idea of a book!

I have gone through the whole series (in audio book form, although I just got the print version) 4 times since the beginning of the year. I GET IT!!!

OK, now I have to read your stuff. Just got through with The Salvage Crew -- AIs, alien contact via poetry, and Tennyson.

Currently, I'm writing a paper on Frankenstein and another on the word "crazy". I'll get back to fiction eventually :)

I have similar struggles and hit a hard 4 year stretch of barely reading at all -- no audio books, no print, nothing. Eventually I just went with the least demanding forms -- manga, for me, and 'light novels' which are very undemanding but fun. Go for something out of your usual zone.

That sounds excellent. I'm working on a second degree, this time in Creative Writing with a minor in Women's and Gender Studies, but my true love is science fiction :) Thanks for the kick! Up to the top of the TBR it goes!

I've had this on my TBR for soo long, but just never have gotten down to it. I doubt it will show up in any of my classes (maybe when I'm done with survey courses...) What class are you teaching?

Oh I can give you very long lists!!
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
Confessions of a Pagan Nun - Kate Horsley
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
Storm Front - Jim Butcher
The Magician's Daughter - H.G. Perry

That book was a devastating read, and I've never managed to finish the sequel because it is so raw. Eventually, I will try again.

Unless that scribble at the top is his. Then double cool.

Sooo much envy!!! It could only be cooler if China Mieville had signed it too.

Oo! Just...Oo!

Someone else who knows about Bela Fleck!!

Genres being what they are, I could conceivably be in both at the same time (nothing keeps a thriller from being in a fantasy setting). However, yeah -- elves, friendly dragons, magic. All sounds fun.