I'm working on some new classics for the boys to read, as they've plowed through the basic list for middle schoolers I had.  Anyone want to give me input on the "To Read" section of whether or not I'd be torturing the poor munchkins or if a book was just one of your youthful favorites?   (I have Jane Austen on there, but considering the boys hated ( Read more... )

Slow week for me. I work, I go home and take over baby from hubby so he can have some time to himself, and I sleep. One of these days I'll have a post that doesn't involve babies or nursing or something... maybe ( Read more... )

Still "two" of me right now. Baby has settled down and is mostly behaving herself, probably because she's run out of room to do otherwise. Since we're completely ready for her now, I'll bet we'll make it to the 13th. 10 more days ( Read more... )

Dangit...I forgot my glucose drink this morning when I left for work.  Knew I should have brought it to work early and stashed it here instead.  I emailed boss and asked her if I could just work through lunch and leave at 1:30-1:45 to get home, drink the thing, and head for the OB office.  Since I can't eat anything for two hours before drinking ( Read more... )

Didn't get to early vote yesterday. No parking for blocks and blocks around the courthouse. Parking's horrid there on a good day anyway. Was going to vote before work, but despite being at my polling place at 7:30 a.m., there was already a considerable line out the door and folks were bringing folding chairs to sit in line. Since I had to be at ( Read more... )

I get so wrapped up in the work chaos that I often forget to LJ the good things ( Read more... )

I read someone's entry this morning and some of the comments posted to it got me to thinking a bit. The general direction of the comments were that JK Rowling has intrigued a lot of readers to the fantasy genre, and while they may read some of the "modern" fantasy, they aren't resorting to the staples of fantasy fiction ( Read more... )

Books 48-52: Jacqueline Carey: Kushiel's Chosen, 5 stars. Charlaine Harris: Dead Until Dark, 4 stars. Robert A. Heinlein: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, 5 stars. Charlaine Harris: Club Dead, 4 stars. Charlaine Harris: Dead to the World, 4 stars.

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Book 46:
Nancy Collins: Sunglasses After Dark, 253 pages. Sonja Blue series, book 1. A bookcrossing.com book. My search for good vampire stories continues with reading Nancy Collins' offerings to the genre. I'd first heard of Sonja Blue from a short story Collins wrote for The Vampire Sextette, which was one of the few stories I actually ( Read more... )

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