Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Christian Kane, "House Rules."

Ryman for America: The Best of 2010.

So people are stating to post their "best of..." lists for 2010. Heck, I'm even doing it, and I'm frequently the last person to notice that the bandwagon is rolling through the center of my town. Much to my surprise and delight, Feed is showing up on a few of those lists, which is sort of like, whoa, really? I mean...whoa, really? I love this book like I love sunshine and zombie puppies, but I didn't write it to make lists, I wrote it to get it out of my head. So the fact that it is is just...

It's staggering.

But here it is on Book Yurt's 2010 W00t List, described as "smart, scary, sassy and not at all what you'd expect from a zombie novel." (I'm also described here, as "both hilarious and ferociously smart." I can roll with that, being an overly-intellectual former stand-up comic. See? Every skill applies somewhere.)

And the Devourer of Books listed Feed as one of the books she gushed about in 2010, describing it as, "a smart book with fantastic world building." She was talking about the audio book, too, and gave kudos to the narrators.

But the one that really floored me—I mean floored me, knocked me on my ass and stole my lunch money—is the one that half the world emailed me about while I was sleeping. Because Feed, my little zombies-and-politics Sorkin/Romero love letter, Feed...

Well, it made The Onion AV Club's list of the Best Books They Read in 2010. Feed. My book. Made that list. HOLY CRAP. And they say:

"Feed resembles a Cory Doctorow novel in its intelligent speculation about how technology will reshape familiar aspects of the world, but it's more like The West Wing in its close observation of a presidential campaign from the inside, as seen through the eyes of a handful of bloggers invited along on the campaign trail. It's a breathless, exciting pulp novel with one of 2010's most surprising endings, but it's also a smart futuristic extrapolation about what the future may look like thanks to the Internet and new modes of communication, zombies or no."

I am stunned. Totally stunned. And also, have no lunch money, because this review took it. And somehow, I do not mind.

BEST OF 2010, BABY! WOOOOOOOOO!
Tags: dino dance party, feed, magazines and me, mira grant, pandemic time, reviews
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mac_arthur_park

December 30 2010, 17:43:33 UTC 6 years ago

Very cool! Congratulations!

As far as the standup comic thing goes, so is the spousebeast... he loves reminding me that he used to get paid to be funny (usually whe he has made a truly terrible joke and I haven't had coffee yet).

seanan_mcguire

January 13 2011, 16:13:47 UTC 6 years ago

That's fabulous. (And I, too, make terrible jokes pre-coffee. And post-coffee.)

mac_arthur_park

January 13 2011, 20:27:55 UTC 6 years ago

*heavy sigh* You too, huh? I ought to introduce you to my youngest.

And his amazing work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukpgwtmmHXk

seanan_mcguire

January 20 2011, 15:23:58 UTC 6 years ago

Heeeeeee.

mac_arthur_park

January 21 2011, 02:06:13 UTC 6 years ago

I passed your comment along to him, and he delightedly responded "I did a book report on her book! And I told the kids in English class that you are her friend!"

Feed was Ashe's latest book report book.

Congratulations. We're corrupting the youth one kid at a time. ;)

If you would be so kind, send a good thought out to xander/Zander, Ashe's genderqueer kitty. S/he's been missing for 4 days. Before I got dumped in North Carolina, I adopted a little ginger kitten. She's been his best buddy ever since. Now....I can't imagine how Ashe would deal if he lost his kitty, because that is the one tangible, if tenuous, line we had.

I didn't mean to dump this on you.

seanan_mcguire

February 24 2011, 22:14:36 UTC 6 years ago

Did you find the kitty?

mac_arthur_park

February 25 2011, 05:50:15 UTC 6 years ago

Nope. :( What kills me is that he's decided that Xander is finding his way to NC (the boys live with their dad in New Jersey) so he cn be with me and Kent.

I am not an advocate of lying to kids, but I have put a bowl of kibble on the porch, just in cae.

seanan_mcguire

February 25 2011, 16:06:58 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, damn. :(