"that flighty temptress"

[eldritchhobbit]

* Julie Phillips' biography of a science fiction legend, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best biography of 2006.

* From Marvel Comics land: R.I.P., Captain America?

* Harold Bloom has gone off again on Harry Potter. (This is not the first time: see here and here, for example.) In the process, he asserted, "I cannot think of a major work I have not ingested." Somehow, I get the suspicion that our definitions of "major work" would differ.

* And last but not least, re: my own recent news, here are couple of press releases about my husband, making it official:
* Yesterday's press release (LRC)
* Last week's press release (BU)


"...let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

LOL! Thanks for the vicarious anxieties, but no worries! Larry designed the house in which we live now, and he still has the plans; we can build it again, only this time in view of the mountains! (Assuming we don't find something we like even better - I'll admit, I don't expect to do so.) It will take time, of course, but everything that's worthwhile does. In the meantime, we'll do our best to find enough land to let VA be her queenly self in style. :)

Not only is there a Krispy Kreme (you rule!), but multiple Mexican restaurants (a requirement for us), bookstores, and more than one Starbucks. I'm all set. :)