I had some time at the mall last night before I met up with a geek group to see Thor and wound up spending a horrifying amount at Barnes & Noble... I had no choice - I saw THIS and absolutely had to have it. You *know* how devoted I am to Nick Bantock and the Griffin & Sabine series. Pump it up on *crack* supplied by JJ Abrams and yeah, who needs ( Read more... )

So, quite suddenly, today is the day... The last day I will ever be in this library. They close the downtown branch of MPL on Friday and in a month, the temporary branch opens which will carry us through the two years it will take to build our new library ( Read more... )

It's been ages since I've posted a book review, but I just added one to my book blog HERE.  Wells, of course.

OMG, this city rocks. It's *killing* me, but it rocks. Let's see if I can recap the entire last week in the 10 free minutes I find myself with for the first time in two weeks ( Read more... )

FYI, rarelylynne, et al... A Room of One's Own is sold out of Chicks Dig Timelords already and have ordered more. Which doesn't do *me* any good as the whim hit me to start reading it today in preparation for your reading. :-P

Head's up Madison fangirls: Carole Barrowman, Lynne Thomas, & Tara O'Shea will be reading/signing at A Room of One's Own on April ( Read more... )

Ishmael rocked.
I have chosen my ships.
I am one of you now.

( HCTB and Ishmael spoilers... )

Do I have any other BookTV junkies on my flist? Were you watching earlier this year when the went through the whole Lincoln-fest? Help me remember an author and his book (I've lost my notes and I really want to follow up on it ( Read more... )

In all seriousness, this scares me more than nuclear annihilation, or revolution, or global warming...

All Free Library of Philadelphia Branch, Regional and Central Libraries Closed - Effective Close of Business October 2, 2009 I can only hope that this is something of a scare-tactic move on the part of the library and some sort of functionality ( Read more... )

Ok, here's a weird one for you... pegkerr made a post a couple of days ago about an episode of The Storyteller that told a variation of The Wild Swans she had not known about. This led me to grab a copy of The Storyteller off the shelf at the library to watch again and when the Wild, Wild West ran out on me last night, I watched all of the Storyteller ( Read more... )