Well I had fun today! I went out with my dad tonight and, surprise surprise, I had a great time. Not that I have horrible times every time I go out with him or anything, and I do love him, but sometimes its more iffy than others and sometimes its just plain miserable (usually for me). Sometimes its just fine and I enjoy it. Tonight I had funFirst, ( Read more... )

"Most people wish they were doing something more interesting with their lives. So they go home and they watch television shows about people they can never be, or they read books about fantasy worlds they'll never inhabit, or they get on to the Internet and take on a persona, either on a message board or in a role-playing game, and they while away ( Read more... )

Excuse me while I get extremely fangirlish over the stupidest little thing. I am reading the second Burn Notice novel, "The End Game," and in there is this part... where Michael doing that whole explaining the whole spy business thing like he does in the show--yeah, he does it way more and freakin' awesomely in the novel, heck yeah!--and he ( Read more... )

I knew I was going to hate the end of Pale Fallen Angel. I just knew it! That's way it took me so long to finally get up the nerve to finish reading it. I just knew it would end that way!! Damnit!!!

WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DO THAT TO ME HIDEYUKI KIKUCHI?? WHY???? WHY DID IT HAVE TO END THAT WAY? --AND WHY DID YOU WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE--LITERALLY ( Read more... )

It turned out Leiter was from Texas. While he talked on about his job with the Joint Intelligence Staff of NATO and the difficulty of maintaining security in an organization where so many nationalitites were represented, Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

--from Casino Royale by Ian ( Read more... )

Here's a fun little excerpt from the Batman novel Inferno by Alex Irvine. It's amusing.

( Batshit Crazy )

Personal project. Based off the 50 books in 52 weeks things others are doing. I started off wanting to do that, never got around to posting. Now I'm just gonna keep a list of books I read this year. Just for my reference. And if I get to 50 books--all the better! Yay. Haha. -_-

( Booklist for 2008 )

Best section in a novel, ever:

( Let's put a smile on that face! )

Here's a rather long excerpt from the Iron Man novel (written by Peter David). I wrote it up for someone wanting to know more about Pepper, and thought I would share further. Enjoy~!

( I've never seen someone fail so spectacularly. )

I did not know I could like anything more than the movie. BUT THIS NOVEL IS KICK-ASS! Yes, I am reading the Iron Man novel based off the screenplay. And it is awesome. I love the further insight to Tony Stark. Downey did an excellent job depicting him, even all the little nuances. But with the novel... I can get inside his head. It is wonderful ( Read more... )