This year I'm trying something different, and instead of posting my full reading list at the end of the year, I'm going to try to add to it as I go along. (Normally the in progress list is a Word doc sitting on my desktop.) Hopefully this will prompt me to write at least brief reviews somewhat more often. Volume wise, I hope to at least mostly keep ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm a little bit late to the game with this, but here it is, finally, the list of every book I read in 2012. There were A LOT of Marvel comics, and even with that I'm not totally caught up.

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The fannish-inclined among you should go read seanan-mcguire's new post I know a little girl and her name is Mary Mac: The Misuse of Mary Sue. (And then you should go read her books too... can't remember if I've said on here, but I recently read One Salt Sea, which is one of the best of the Toby Daye books thus far.) I definitely think it's worth examining that ( Read more... )

Okay, I think that the number of books I'm reading at the same time is getting a little out of hand. Granted, one is an audio book I listen to when I have time at work (which it turns out doesn't happen often since I've been doing lots of training lately), one is actually for work, and another I'm (re)reading for a very silly blogI've been making a ( Read more... )

I can finally crawl out from that rock I've been living under! What have I been up to the last week?

1. Writing final exams. By the end of the semester, I felt like I was just writing non-stop, and I had so much to do that I pretty much ceased to care about quality, as long as all my assignments and exams got done. And they did. I suspect some were ( Read more... )