We’ve got tickets to see Ani Defranco tonight at the CAC.

Which explains why I’m tired and just want to go home and lie on the couch reading.

I’ve actually been reading. At least after we get our daily dose of DS9. (We’re holding off on starting Season 7 of Buffy and any of the Angel, but that may start this weekend.) But I’ve read some good anthologies, which I’ve been meaning to write more about, but have not yet managed to do so. But for now, I highly recommend ‘Firebirds’ edited by Sharyn November as well as Ellen Kushner’s ‘Thomas the Rhymer’. And despite my earlier protestations, I picked up Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword And Sorceress XXI. Mostly because Diana L. Paxson has taken over as editor, although partially because I have a hard time finding anthologies that I really like, and I’ve always enjoyed the Sword And Sorceress series. The other book I’m reading is ‘Year’s Best Fantasy I’ edited by David Hartwell.

And I’m not quite sure what I’m going to read after that. I’ve got several mystery series that look good, as well as (ahem) some new fantasy series that I haven’t read before. Although the temptation is to go back and reread ‘Thieves World’… HEY! VOLUME II IS OUT! MUST BUY! (runs off)