Review up at Flames Rising

I meant to mention this earlier, but I am finally, finally starting to catch up with my reviews for Flames Rising, largely thanks to my Nook.* Matt posted my review of the Grants Pass post-apocalyptic anthology, edited by Jennifer Brozek, which you can read here. (Amanda Pillar, the in house editor, mentioned it in her livejournal.) There were quite a number of authors I've been meaning to read featured in the anthology, so it was a great way to be introduced to the fiction of Cherie Priest (cmpriest) and friend-of-the-blog Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire), both of whom I've been reading on LJ for ages but haven't actually read in the sphere of fiction. (Seanan's novel Rosemary and Rue is sitting prominently on my TBR pile; her piece in Grants Pass was probably my favorite in the whole collection.)

I've got some crit group pieces and three novels to review between PW and SLJ before the end of the month, then back to the FR pile!

*For this reason, I am probably going to keep it, by the way -- the reading experience is so much more pleasant for e-books and critique group manuscripts than the computer that I think I'm going to come out ahead by using it, even if I can't yet annotate the pieces I'd really like to annotate. I'm using the bookmark feature to get by for now, which hopefully will be enough to remind me about what it was I wanted to say on those pages. I'm crossing my fingers that they'll improve it in the future. In the mean time, since the majority of my e-books are in pdf or ePub format, it seems worth keeping rather than purchasing a Kindle, which can do the annotations now, since the conversion process there sounds, from the reviews, like a big ol' hassle (plus the hassle of exchanging items, waiting for a new device to arrive, etc., etc.).