Sharon Lee rolanni just mentioned an important resolution being put forth at Chicago WorldCon, to wit: that Yngvi is not a louse.

Oh, my, that jarred a few memories loose. I haven't read L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt's Harold Shea stories is a looooooooong time, but I remember them fondly. So I hunted around the house, and came up with The Compleat ( Read more... )

Good gracious! I got 639 wpm!


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...all the books. I just listed a bunch of hardcover books on eBay:

Bill Willingham's FABLES, Deluxe Edition, Book One
Ireland's Traditional Crafts, David Shaw-Smith
The Little Country, Charles deLint
Bloodline, F. Paul Wilson
Harbingers, F. Paul Wilson
Host, F. Paul Wilson
Brimstone, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Fever Dream, Douglas Preston and ( Read more... )

George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" had been written by Lemony Snicket? A fanfic author ("Sashaying Down the Catwalk") has provided brief, Snicket-styled synopses of the first four books ( Read more... )

I've finally gotten around to starting George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones - it's way less intimidating as an ebook than as a 720-page paperback. One nice thing is that the episodic nature of the chapter-long POV shifts makes it easy to read in short snatches, so it's good for short breaks at work - the days when I could just curl up and read ( Read more... )

I ordered the latest Lois McMaster Bujold Miles Vorkosigan novel Cryoburn in hardcover from Amazon, oh ages ago, and it arrived the Friday before Halloween. I was flipping through the volume preparatory to diving in, when I realized there was something stuck in the back of the book ( Read more... )

In August, I bought a Kindle as a present for Deb's birthday, and she seems to love it. I've been resisting e-readers for a number of reasons - non-loanability of e-books, the creep of entirely mutable electronic info into all aspects of our lives, and the fact that I love the physicality of books - but the lure of a handy device that will hold ( Read more... )

Well, Beltaine - the roadsign in the yearly cycle that reads "Warm Weather Next 180 Days" - has come and gone, and I'm waking up at last. Time for a post ( Read more... )