Hobbies of Several Kinds

[revena]

In accordance with my sort-of resolution thingy, I have been reading from my TBR collection. Go me! Also, not buying any new books. Go me some more!

I read (among other things) Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro, which I liked very much indeed, though the copy I have on my e-reader is full of copy-editing-type errors. Extra or missing words, slight misspellings, etc. Boo. But I got it via the Baen Free Library, and the "free" aspect made it less frustrating than it could have been. When I am allowing myself to buy books again, I'll see about getting my hands on the sequel(s) and hope for better editing.

Another thing I've been doing the past little while is working on a few dolls. I finished two that are clothed in comic book panels - which was really fun to do, though also really sticky - and they're up in my Etsy shop if you want to take a look. Or, y'know, buy one. Please do share links to anything there if you think a friend would get a kick out of 'em, btw. I would love to sell some dolls, not so much for the money (though money is nice) but because I enjoy making them a lot, but I enjoy it even more when someone else gets to have one that makes them smile.

Comments

[ladyjax]

I absolutely love Primary Inversion. I'm not as enamored of some of the later Skolian novels but the novels up to Spherical Harmonic are pretty solid.

I hope that one day someone will think to gather the short stories that fill in different parts of the Saga.

[revena]

Short story omnibus collections are so happy-making when it comes to big, sprawling series like that. I mean, I don't mind picking up copies of anthologies that might expose me to new authors I'd also enjoy, but when there are a ton of them, and some are out of print... Yeah.

[brownbetty]

How much Asaro have you read? I've never gone through her stuff systematically, but I've read more than one where the plot is "Dude is kidnapped/taken captive by/in power of ladies who want his babies." And it's not skeezy, until you realize it's the third book you've read with this plot, and, um. If this was fanfic, I'd know what to think!

[revena]

Primary Inversion was my first, though it's possible/likely that I've read a short story of hers without realizing, what with my anthology consumption habits.

Betty, you will tell me if I accidentally write three books with skeezy things in common, right??