May 1, 1998
Yes, this is where I'm living now. I'm trying to squeeze four
room's worth of stuff into one room, and failing spectacularly. And I still have tons of stuff still over at the old house! Yikes!
Of course, when I first moved I only took what I felt I needed. "What I needed" has gradually expanded, as you can see. My roommate
just laughs at me now every time I come home from running errands and I have three or four new books. Yesterday she said she was going
to clean out a section of the living room so that I can put my bookcases up there.
When I first moved out of the house, Jay and I agreed that I could leave a bunch of my stuff there since I wasn't moving to a place where I'd have room for it all, and this way I wouldn't have to pay for storage. But I'm thinking more and more that I should clear the rest of my junk out of there before I leave for Clarion. Tiffany insists that we can make room for it here, but even if we can't, storage isn't that expensive.
But this time I'm going to recruit some other people to help me move all the crap (especially the books.)
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Latest book acquisitions:
(Note: Most of these were bought at used-bookstores)
Fire Watch by Connie Willis. A collection of 12 of her short stories.
Blood Music by Greg Bear. I remember reading the short story of the same name. Bear definitely took it farther in the novel, though the ending had me somewhat bewildered.
The Year's Best Science Fiction--Eight Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois. This volume features "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson, and "Cibola" by Connie Willis, among others.
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre. This is probably the fifth time I've bought this book, since I keep lending it out and never getting it back. However, Vonda told me recently that it is quite out of print, and so I will not be lending this copy out.
2041: Twelve short stories about the future edited by Jane Yolen. I bought this one because it was a) el cheapo in a used-bookstore and b) because it has an extremely funny Connie Willis story in it, "Much Ado About [censored]."
The New Hugo Winners edied by Isaac Asimov. This was the first "New Hugo Winners" volume, I believe, and it has the winners from 1983, '84, and '85.
Also on my reading list:
Celestis by Paul Park
With The Lightnings by David Drake. (This is a review copy that Gordie sent me on the condition that I write a 400 word review. I really need to put this one at the top of my to-be-read list.)