Sara Ryan

1. Solidarity forever, the union makes us strong. Thank goodness I am a union employee in the world of my day job and thus am required to take a day off when I’ve been working over the weekend (shut up, I was too). Not setting an alarm this morning was unbelievably great. 2. Though getting [...]

I stole this ALA picture from Cecil’s blog: And I stole this report about the comics panel from the Periscope blog. Thievingly yours, I remain, etc.

…in all its exhausting delightfulness, but first I would like to call the locals’ attention to this event. I’ll be welcoming people to “Appreciating Comics: a panel discussion” in a matter of hours. I’m really excited! Also, I am proud to do my part to reduce the number of gerunds available to be used in [...]

Saw this sign in a shop window: Everything one needs, presumably… I didn’t take a picture of my favorite sign inside the convention center because the nice people in the booth were standing right near it, but it warmed my heart: “ENTER TO WIN: BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BOXED SET!” That’s going [...]

My time in D.C. so far has been like that scene in Boogie Nights where Julianne Moore is walking in tiny circles and saying “Too many things, too many things, too many things,” only without the drugs. Translation: the conference is overwhelming and I am overscheduled, but I’ve seen a bunch of people and things [...]

So the other day anarqueso was in town and she was up for a trip to the Bins. The Bins have moved since the article (which I should warn you has some gross bits) linked in the previous sentence was published, and I hadn’t been there since they moved, so it was actually sort of [...]

I was really happy to see this Rules review in Booklist (n.b. — ellipses are there for spoiler avoidance, not because the reviewer said negative things between them ;)): In this follow-up to Ryan’s Empress of the World (2001), Battle, just graduated from high school…has arrived in Portland, Oregon, where she’ll start college in the [...]

You know how sometimes you haven’t heard one of your very favorite musicians for a while, perhaps for a reason as dumb as “oh, yeah, I keep meaning to get those tracks into iTunes,” and then something serendipitous happens, like you’re cleaning your desk at work and find that 2002 live album, and you figure [...]

Next Friday I’ll be headed for the American Library Association Conference in Washington, D.C., where I will lead a double life. All y’all who are going to ALA, please come to the Penguin booth (#2710) Saturday afternoon between 3 and 4! I’ll be signing copies of The Rules for Hearts and anything else you want [...]

(As opposed to the Friday Five.) Spent much of yesterday at O’Hare. No one looks their best at the airport, but the religious have an advantage due to their professional costumes. Sighted: priests in full cassocks, Buddhist monks in robes, and nuns in habits. The nuns were buying popcorn. Every time I’m in O’Hare, I [...]