Monday Media Musings: 01/19/26

[owlmoose]

The Scavenger Door by Suzanne Palmer : The third book in The Finder Chronicles; as much fun as its predecessors, and the end had me immediately turning around to start book four. Thoughts with spoilers: My favorite aspects of this story were Fergus learning to better control his Aasig-granted powers -- using them to "talk" with the key pieces, beginning to accept them as a part of himself -- and of course his relationship with Ilsa, who is an excellent character, and I hope she returns in the next book Non-spoilery thought: Suzanne Palmer sure knows what it's like to live with a cat.

Um Actually live show: I don't subscribe to Dropout, so I'm sadly unfamiliar with most of their shows, but during high pandemic, they dropped a bunch of Um Actually episodes on YouTube, and T and I spent a lot of time watching them. So when we learned that there would a live show at this year's SF Sketchfest, we immediately decided to get tickets. The panel, which was not announced in advance, was Janet Varney, Marc Evan Jackson, and Tawny Newsome; they were an awesome group who played well off the hosts and each other, and we had a great time.

Comments

[renay]

Palmer went an entirely different direction with Ghostdrift. It really makes me think there were more books in the series, but the series wasn't selling well enough so it had to end. :( (A crime.)