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Books!

Eon, Goodman: I found the first parts fairly predictable, also some plot turns throughout, but then I have read a lot of YA fantasy; the end became more crashing/cascading and interesting. Probably I will not buy the sequel, but I may well pick it up at the library if I see it.
Lifelode, Walton: Really intriguing book. Neat things going on with tense, nice family dynamics, geographical/magical/sociological divides... yeah. Quiet novel, but good novel. I enjoyed it. (I have been hearing lo far and wide that Among Others is a, out, and b, awesome, but left Minneapolis right before Hugo's got it... maybe the bookstore across the street has it, o forlorn hope.)
Neveryona, Delany: Strange; well-organized; in some ways fascinating as a thing to be read and in others fascinating as a meta-object of reading, both the quotes at the chapter headings and the text itself. The mechanism is transparent; the text is the mechanism; the mechanism is the text. But the text is itself, too. Intriguingly twisty. Possibly not the best thing to be reading after I'd been on a train for twenty hours, but what can I say? It seemed like a good idea at the time. I will keep my eye out for the other Neveryon books.

Book reports written because I am trying to avoid my two current sources of fretting: physics research applications and the fact that I have two short stories out which ought to be coming back to me soon. I managed to do a bit of revision on the general physics statement of interest today, which was nice, and I did request all the official transcripts I need. So that's sort of like progress.