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coffeeandink) wrote2026-07-11 01:28 pm
coffeeandink) wrote2026-07-11 01:28 pm
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Quick notes on Readercon
- I have been taking notes in my sadly decayed handwriting and will try to type and organize them on the train home. I have been very much enjoying the panels even, or perhaps especially, when I want to argue with them.
- The train departed 20 minutes late and arrived in Boston 10 minutes early. Why are you capping your speed, Amtrak?! Is it not enough to cruelly deny me actual high-speed rail?
- This trip always fills me with nostalgia because I took the same Acela/Northeast Corridor line back and forth to college.
- Books finished on the ride up/the night before registration: Susan Casey's The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean (trying too hard for poetry but has 100% convinced me the ocean is Very Cool and We Need to Protect It from Capitalist Exploitation) and Tahsan Mehta's The Liar's Weave (smart and affecting and, though I hate to say it, probably without enough context to do well in the West without some revision; I am glad her breakthrough book here was Mad Sisters of Esi, which I think will do much better, and is also just weirder, wilder, and stronger).
- People met up with: kate_nepveu, sparkymonster, skygiants, genarti, rilina, oracne, gwynnega, ninamazing, and probably someone I've forgotten.
- Replacement copies of midlist fantasy books of the 80s and 90s acquired: 4
Things I have recommended to con attendees and recommend to you:
- Tanith Lee Humble bundle (26 books for $18!)
- Trung Le Nguyen's live skeeting of Pride and Prejudice, which he has never read before
- Interview with a Vampire/The Vampire Lestat on AMC, which I have been meaning to write up for like three years now
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It's a fan-run convention for general audiences. I'm not an academic.
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P.
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Isn't it delightful?
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I have just read the entire P&P thread and it is just brilliant. One more reason to do my own reread!
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It was great to see you!
It makes me want to reread P&P even more than usual.
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I am enjoying the P&P thread immensely, thank you so much for sharing it.
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Likewise! I'm glad we got to talk a bit.
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Emerging from the shadows to say that I (& wife) actually JUST watched IWTV. I've been meaning to since before it started airing (I mean, we love the original movie unironically), but it was difficult to stream and I waited for it to be on a better streaming service, and then it was three years later, and then I thought I'd save it for a Spooktober... and then I volunteered to review a BA thesis about the show (which was, btw, atrociously bad), and that was the push, and now I have to go back to my TV class students and tell them how right they were in telling me to stop procrastinating and watch it.
I loved it so much IDEK. Wife, who was very skeptical and didn't want to watch after the first ep, also loves it.
It's the one narrative thing we're keeping up with in between watching emotional support figure skating (a fandom we got into this year).
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It is so good! At this point, I might as well wait for the finale before writing anything up, but I am so interested in what is doing with memory and abuse and monstrosity.
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If you see a writeup of the Black WWI soldiers in speculative fiction panel that happened Sunday, please feel free to point me to a link!
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It was good to see you!
I do not know anyone who reliably does panel writeups except a few people on DW, alas.