Recent content by Aspasia

I've seen An Accident of Stars floating around and it's definitely on my list! I haven't read a lot of portal fantasy, I mostly read secondary world, but it looks like a really good, fun story. Have you all seen this wonderful list of 2016 f/f SFF books? All 2016 releases and all HEA/HFN! I'm...

So I finished The Star-Touched Queen a few days ago and wow, what a lyrical and excellent book! If you like mythology-inspired fantasy about death and the Underworld, I highly recommend this book. It's deeply steeped in South Asian culture and mythology in a way that I haven't read before...

So I recently came across a call for submissions that exactly fits a short story I wrote a few years ago. It fits SO perfectly that I am going to sit on my nerves and actually ... *gasp* submit! However, I have an issue. I have an extremely uncommon Real Life name which I, for many reasons...

I'd definitely be interested!

Ooooh I read Karen Memory by her it was excellent! Weird west subgenre, first one of that type I've read. Scott Lynch is one of my favorite authors ever. Gentleman Bastards is such a fun series! I just finished The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi (romantic YA, usually not my thing but...

Ahhh this one's actually much more difficult than I thought it would be! I haven't sought out this style of book in a while. One potential book would be Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death (I'm reading this next month for a book club): It has the elements of a fellowship, a great evil, a...

Yes! Here's a few that I know of. Goodreads links to follow: I really recommend the author Corinne Duyvis for YA with disabled main characters. She's very active in the community and is awesome for recs of books featuring disability rep other than her own as well! Otherbound is a...

Here's a thread for recommending & discussing diverse SFF books! I would really like the focus for this thread to be on friendly recommendation & discussing what you enjoyed--what awesome diverse SFF have you found, what would you like recommendations for? I'm part of several diverse literature...

I haven't been following the thread, but this comment caught my eye. Is there interest in starting a thread for rec'ing/discussing diverse fantasy novels? If so I'd be more than happy to start it & drown you all in recs :) I spend the vast majority of my time online discussing diversity in...

They're showing the women's 10k open water swimming marathon right now. How crazy is that?! 2 hours swimming in the ocean ... Synchronized swimming was pretty fun to watch.

Also interested ... I have a super busy life so usually I can't commit to posting every day with long RP descriptions so I don't usually join in unless I find a pretty casual one.

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. I don't know what it is about that book, I just never seem to finish it. It's not even that long!

She ROCKED everything! I love gymnastics, I'm like the least athletic person ever so I'm just mind = blown the entire time. I can usually only watch in the evening, so I find out what happens from the Internet then see it in the evening! I really hate the time delay for broadcasting--I can see...

The 2 Simones (American: Gymnastics and Swimming) have me dancing. SO HAPPY! Now, if only nighttime coverage would also show us some sports other than gymnastics and swimming that would be great. I want to see fencing!

For some reason I always find it difficult to write longer stories, but when it comes to every other form of writing it's almost impossible for me to be concise. I have to WORK to make book reviews shorter than 2k! Yet nearly all my writing is done in <10k, usually <5k too! You'd think I'd have...