I read Holly Black's Tithe last night, and ended up well into her second book, Valiant, before I had to quit it for a while to cram some theology notes into my brain and get through the orals by the skin of my teeth. I've just finished Valiant, of course, and am craving for the third book, Ironside, which is totally not within my means to acquire ( Read more... )

Never have I seen two such disparate words compounded. And every time I try to run through it in my head, I can't help laughing. Just goes to show that I might as well have been a canny farmer in a previous life, and stuff like "ponderous hoe" makes me day. Better than MTV, anytime. "Ponderous hoe," haha!

I owe this newfound bit of craziness to Tom ( Read more... )

I just finished Moving Pictures. And that was right after finishing Small Gods. It's almost like this feeling you get when wolves are snapping on your heels and you have this great and reasonable urge to run very, very fast. It's exhilarating. It's addictive. Not the wolves, but the books. Particularly, the humor.

I'm not sure why suddenly my hunger ( Read more... )

I picked up a book meme from
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