I got the new Brandon Sanderson book, "The Alloy of Law," and I definitely have to recommend it to all of you. It's in the same world as his Mistborn trilogy, but you don't have to read those first to enjoy this one. Obviously, he hints at things that happened in those books, but this book is set 300 years in the future from then, and the world has ( Read more... )

Email from the library:

Your request for The Lexicographer Dilemma: The Evolution Of English, From Shakespeare To South Park has been approved.

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Surely none of you are surprised that I'm such a dork? ;P

Okay, so, if you've ever trusted my taste in anything before, trust me now and go the library or your local bookstore or wherever you procure your books and get Antsy Does Time by Neal Shusterman. (I would recommend reading The Schwa Was Here, too. That one actually comes first, and while it's not necessary to understand "Antsy Does Time," I think ( Read more... )

I just finished Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach. Let me digress for a bit.

I read her book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers a couple of months ago. I could not put the book down. I generally don't have to say that because I read fast and can knock out a book in a couple of hours, but I was working a sub at the time ( Read more... )

I know there are a bunch of Eddings fans on my flist here.

aphraels_island is just a trivia community; they ask one question a week from any of the books (Belgariad, Mallorean, Elenium, Tamuli and The Redemption of Althalus) and that's it. So if you're like me and bad at participating in communities, it's fun. And it's an excuse to re-read Eddings. ;P

I just finished Small Steps by Louis Sachar. It's being marketed as a sequel to "Holes," which isn't quite right--the book doesn't even mention Stanley and it's a very different story. "Holes" and "Small Steps" are more like the Bean/Ender books by Orson Scott Card. "Small Steps" is about Armpit, two years later, trying to keep his life on track ( Read more... )