Currently shortlisted for the Nebula Award. To read on my phone or for ten minutes with a cup of tea, I have Passing Strange, a novella by Ellen Klages set in in 1940s San Francisco, full of magic, pulp fiction cover paintings, and lesbians in love. But, oh, if you like the details in Hild about how the A-S world worked - and big hands and biceps of steel, or, y'know, a bookstand - you'll eat this with a spoon. It's a massive, heavily illustrated offering from Princeton University Press that brings together the latest understanding of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants. But I'm not reading it at all, just glancing at it longingly and waiting for a book stand to arrive: it weighs about 5 lbs. The book I really want to be reading all the time right now is nonfiction: Building Anglo-Saxon England, by John Blair. I always have several things on the go, for different times, moods, and contexts. Maybe she'll narrate the next Hild book, Menewood, when that is released, as well. Appearances by Griffith are rare, even in her home town, so get out and take advantage! But if you miss her (or, make it but want more of her voice in your life), be sure to check out So Lucky on audiobook - her debut as a narrator. She'll be making two appearances - the 15th at Phinney Books, and the following night, May 16th, at the Elliott Bay Book Company. Her most recent, So Lucky, is being released this Tuesday, May 15th. Nicola Griffith is the author of seven novels.
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