What's the Word Now?

Scrolling Mastodon on Dec. 19, I saw a post from Nicholas Whyte about the 2024 Glasgow WorldCon planning a consultative (nonbinding) online...

 Duolingo sent me its 2023 Year in Review assessment (despite there being nearly a month left of 2023, grrr). I'm a top 1% Spanish learn...

Skiffy and Fanty was offered an electronic Advanced Reader Copy of Uncanny Vows ( The Huntsmen , Book 2, out today, Nov. 28) for review, bu...

I saw Marcie R. Rendon ’s Murder on the Red River on the New Books shelves at my lovely local library (written in 2017, republished in 2022...

Yesterday, I happened to hear two podcasts in immediate succession that had some unexpected congruencies. The first was LeVar Burton Reads...

I spotted The Hopkins Manuscript on the New Books shelves at my local library. This is actually a 2023 trade paperback version of a 1939 no...

I requested Grease Monkeys: The Heart and Soul of Dieselpunk from NetGalley on a whim, despite my towering TBR pile, firstly because of the...

(Hit the link above, then scroll down to Updates for my latest reviews posted on the Skiffy and Fanty blog!)  I joined the crew of the Skiff...

Dee Holloway's Little Nothing is a really enjoyable novella that combines sapphic romance, alternative history, and low fantasy. Despit...

(Scroll down to Updates for my latest online activities, except for my Skiffy and Fanty reviews, which are posted separately!) Rather than a...