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Up today, another excellent entry in A.M. Dellamonica's Journeys series, wherein, with brief introduction, she invites an author to talk about their writing journey. This one is M.K. Hobson, whose excellent The Native Star will be out August 31. I've been enjoying this series a lot; there's a great deal of wit and wisdom--as one might expect--on offer here.

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There's a lot of Mockingjay fervor right now; I'm not on that bus, since I haven't read any of the books yet. I believe everyone who says that they're great, but the synopsis descriptions never fired my imagination enough to compell me to read them... maybe because absolute dystopias have never been my favorite trope.

The books I'm waiting for both come out on Aug 31, The Native Star, as mentioned above (which I've read in ARC, but still want in final book form) and Blameless, the third of Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate books.  I'll be hitting Book People for them September 1.

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Nice essay on Inception, which unpacks and actually examines what I meant in my lazy-ass flash review, wherein I said it was a meditation on movie making as much, if not more than, on dreaming.