True confessions: Territory broke my fiction block

So, as those of you who have been reading this blog for a while may remember, I've been having trouble, the last year or five, with reading fiction. "Trouble" in the sense that I have been finding new narratives simply too mentally stressful to cope with (leading to the VERY WEIRD phenomenon of putting down a perfectly good book because I don't want to know what happens next). This has made me very sad, because reading has been my most favoritest thing to do since I learned to read at the age of three.

(coffeeem, if you're feeling modest today, you may want to avert your eyes.)

I love Emma Bull's books. I've reread Bone Dance more times than I can count, to the point that, as with Watership Down and Dog Wizard and Gaudy Night, I have to ration my rereading because the words are wearing out. So the fact that Emma has a new book out entailed obligate purchase. And then I faced up to myself and read the darn thing.

And then, in the past couple weeks, I've read four more books.

I'm not such a shining Pollyanna-ist as to think the fiction block is gone for good, but I am really enjoying reading for pleasure in the meantime.

( Brief and spoilery--ESPECIALLY FOR THE PINHOE EGG--comments on my recent reading to follow. )

Links

kateelliott (Kate Elliott) interviews sartorias (Sherwood Smith).

rachelmanija is talking about PTSD, specifically with an eye to improving its representation in fiction.

elisem linked to Spamusement. We applaud the reappropriation of annoyance into humor. This one is my favorite.

via both oursin and matociquala: Zoe Williams on support undergarments: In short, just because you're a woman, and something makes you feel good, that doesn't necessarily add up to feminism - like pretty much every ideological structure apart from hedonism, feminism is slightly harder work than that.

And if anyone's wondering how the revisions are going ...