It is my eighth anniversary with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks. We will be observing it with our traditional restaurant and, if the weather complies, some fashion of the sea.
Professionally, my godchild with the assistance ofselkie has sent me the latest issue of Locus, in which Rich Horton reviews Forget the Sleepless Shores:
Sonya Taaffe is one of the best poets in our field, and no mean short story writer either. Forget the Sleepless Shores is her second full-length collection. It shouldn't be missed: the stories are beautifully written (the voice of her poems comes through consistently here—not all poets write their prose as well as their verse, nor indeed vice-versa), the characters are affectingly limned, and the mysterious impinges on the mundane to great effect. There is one new story here, "The Face of the Waters", in which Julian, depressed after a quarrel with his boyfriend, nearly drowns drunkenly, only to be saved by a person in the water—and what sort of person? Fine work—and there is even better work here, stories like "On the Blindside" and "The Boatman's Cure".
That's a good way to be inscribed for the coming year.
rushthatspeaks. We will be observing it with our traditional restaurant and, if the weather complies, some fashion of the sea.Professionally, my godchild with the assistance of
selkie has sent me the latest issue of Locus, in which Rich Horton reviews Forget the Sleepless Shores:Sonya Taaffe is one of the best poets in our field, and no mean short story writer either. Forget the Sleepless Shores is her second full-length collection. It shouldn't be missed: the stories are beautifully written (the voice of her poems comes through consistently here—not all poets write their prose as well as their verse, nor indeed vice-versa), the characters are affectingly limned, and the mysterious impinges on the mundane to great effect. There is one new story here, "The Face of the Waters", in which Julian, depressed after a quarrel with his boyfriend, nearly drowns drunkenly, only to be saved by a person in the water—and what sort of person? Fine work—and there is even better work here, stories like "On the Blindside" and "The Boatman's Cure".
That's a good way to be inscribed for the coming year.
