A) That was sooooo not the book I wanted. Ugh. And blech. I want that four and a half hours of my life back. B) I need brain bleach now. C) These recaps are fucking hysterical. … [Read more...] about Breaking Dawn thoughts
Books
Saturday
My husband, who does not read for fun, snatched The Watchmen from me when it arrived in the mail today and has been ensconced on the couch with it for the last two and a half hours. Guess I'll be reading that when he gets done…. My goal for this weekend is to revise the … [Read more...] about Saturday
A quick book note
I've been in a pissy mood all day for no good reason. Just now I picked up Robin Benway's Audrey, Wait!, which has been on the TBR pile since I heard it compared to Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Two pages later, I'm in a better mood. Back to the book now. ETA: Finished. … [Read more...] about A quick book note
On the (nick)naming of characters
Halfway-plus through Sherwood Smith's delightful Inda, I must pause and bitch: DAW, why O why did you not include the character list in the published book? Because, Christ on a crutch! In addition to the usual firstname-lastname thing, each school-age character gets two more … [Read more...] about On the (nick)naming of characters
A bookish day
Today is a good day. Ink & Steel is out. I think Bear was still working on this when I began reading her LJ, because this was the first thing of hers I remember wanting to read. When the Jenny books came out, I was like, "Eh. That's nice. But where's Will & Kit's Bogus … [Read more...] about A bookish day
Other writers are crazy
Other writers are crazy. (Update: Let us count the ways.) … [Read more...] about Other writers are crazy
There is not enough “shiny” in the ‘verse
Steven Brust has posted his Firefly novel online under a Creative Commons license. ETA: A bit of backstory on how this came about, from a 2006 con report. … [Read more...] about There is not enough “shiny” in the ‘verse
Quick reviews
Found Iron Kissed on the shelf at B&N today, a week early, and promptly devoured it. This series just keeps getting better — as far as I'm concerned, it sits at the top of the urban fantasy/paranormal romance heap. Briggs is especially clever about opening up pieces of … [Read more...] about Quick reviews
quickly….
So I haven't posted much lately. Sorry about that. Here's a quick roundup of what's going on…. Michael finished his fall classes last week, did OK in both, and starts a minimester tomorrow, unless he can talk his advisor into substituting an old credit for this class. … [Read more...] about quickly….
Books
Empire of Ivory was better than Black Powder War, lots better, but I still don't think the Temeraire series is living up to the promise of the first book. I am enjoying them, but I thought the first book was mind-blowingly fun, and the subsequent books have been pretty low on … [Read more...] about Books
