Congratulations Natalie!
by Sunita
INatalie Luhrs, AKA @Eilatan on Twitter, was nominated for a 2021 Hugo award for Best Related Work. She was recognized for her angry, passionate, wonderful post about last year’s Hugo awards.
There are people who are not happy about this. As is their right. (I’m not linking, you can find it pretty easily if you really want to read the thoughts of people who Know Best How To Honor Their Precious Award.)
I am very happy for Natalie and for the recognition of this particular work. I read the post when she wrote it and thought it was great. I’m not a Hugo voter but I’m glad that there were plenty of eligible voters who saw its value and put it on the board.
And for what it’s worth (not much), I read the first four Song of Ice & Fire books and thought they were wow!great! to good! to fine? to meh in sequential order. We watched the first episode of the HBO series, found it creepy and un-selfaware in its celebration of rapeyness, and didn’t continue.
But the important part of of this post is: Congratulations to Natalie!!! You go, girl.
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Oh, Sunita. Thank you. What an unexpected gift this post was in my feed reader. ❤
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It was absolutely my pleasure. Now we know what can get me to blog again. 🙂
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I will join in the cheers for Natalie!
But also, I have been meaning to recommend to you, Sunita, for ages, Ramblings on Radio 4/BBC Sounds. It’s people going for walks in the UK and it’s lovely. I thought it might give you some ideas for future trips as well as the enjoyment of listening to the programmes themselves.
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Oooh, thanks, Ros! That sounds marvelous. We have been reading all the newspaper stories about good walking routes in the UK, and I have a Robert MacFarlane book on the TBR, but nothing on audio. I can’t wait until we can finally come back.
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