Hello, LJ.  Long time, no post.  There are Reasons For That, which are long and gloomy, so I shall commence to HAPPIER THINGS.

HAVE YOU SEEN THE LIZZIE BENNET DIARIES YET?If not, prepare to lose at least a day to watching this totally charming and well-written series straight through.  It's been going since April 2012, and is told through all ( Read more... )

Mark of Mark Reads has started Lord of the Rings.

HE IS NOT PREPARED.  SHIT IS GOING TO GET REAL.  

Mark, of Mark Reads, is currently reading The Hobbit.  His reviews are really funny, and I'm enjoying reading along.

He's already done plenty of series: Harry Potter and His Dark Materials, to name two.  After he finishes The Hobbit he'll be moving on to Lord of the Rings.  Yay! 

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So, the feeling you get when you get to the last page of a long-anticipated book in an ongoing series?

TOTAL SOUL-CRUSHING DESPAIR THAT IT DOESN'T KEEP GOING.  D:

Words cannot express my anguish that I now must wait at least FOUR MORE YEARS to find out what happens next.

edit: I seem to have neglected to include what series I was actually reading ( Read more... )

I found this tucked into the last few pages of The Historian, which I got at the library book sale today.

It reads: "Seventeen months after date, the Bank of the United States promises to pay to G.W. Fairman or order One Thousand Dollars in New York, Philidelphia, Dec. 15, 1840."


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MOCKINGJAY JUST ARRIVED IN MY MAIL.  EXCUSE ME PLZ, GOING TO HOLE UP AND READ NOW!

The YA Fantasy Showdown.  Go vote!  It has characters who I completely adore (and a few that I don't, but that's to be expected).  Westley!  Eugenides!  Mel from Crown Duel!  Aragorn!  Katniss from Hunger Games!  Hermione!  Sabriel!  Edmund Pevensie!  Nobody Owens!

The Neave Planetarium.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse With LOLcats.

I'm back to my regular habit of reserving 10 books at a time from the library and being flooded with good stuff to read.  Problem is, I can't finish even a third of what I check out!  (See: my Goodreads "read" shelf.  And I haven't even switched over all the info from the past 2 years from my local library reading log.)

So I've decided to ( Read more... )

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Some guy signed some thing in some white house on Tuesday...  For those interested, here is a NYT article about what the changes will be.  Linked within the article is a PDF download of immediate (though "immediate" really means 90 days to 1 year from enactment) changes to the system.

Yes, the Republicans sent the package of amendments ( Read more... )