Ack! Need money!

So, an author whose book I keep meaning to read but can never seem to get through is coming to town next month for a book signing on his new novel. Mark Danielewski wrote a very strange tale called House of Leaves. It's been recommended to me several times.

People may be more familiar with his sister, a singer calling herself Poe ( Read more... )

An amusing article found in Neil Gaiman's journal: "Potter and the philosopher's endless drone".

(Other people in this world share my opinion of Harry Potter. Shock.)

I must say, I really love one of the counselors at work. Bea is the coolest: she knows tons of stuff and is always showing me little secrets (like today's lesson: finding out what kind of veteran's benefits a student has on SGASTDN) and asking if I want free movie passes. Last week, I asked about getting a loan for a computer. She immediately had ( Read more... )

I began pestering lorinan, the Facebook guy, on the 12th. We talked about boring things like his teaching school at Shandong Uni still, the Chinese and Japanese languages, and then things like anime cons and Star Wars. It was a little weird. He hasn't even been in the state for about seven years, plays Legend of the Five Rings (you should have seen biglazydragon's ( Read more... )

By necessity every book must have at least one flaw; a misprint, a missing page, one imperfection ... the Rabbis ... point out that even in the holiest of books, the scroll resting inside the Ark, the Name of Names is inscribed in code so that no one might say it out loud, and chance to pronounce properly the Word that once divided the waters from ( Read more... )

"The book stands between the works of Diana Wynne Jones, in its wizardry and spells, and those of Madeleine L'Engle, in its scientific concepts and titantic battles between good and evil." --The Horn Book, on Diane Duane's So You Want to Be A Wizard

Which I have just read once more. Soon it shall pass through my friends' hands. biglazydragon mistakenly thought ( Read more... )

I have bought Howl's Moving Castle (the novel). There's a good chance I can see it tonight with K-chan. She is gushing about it because she saw it last night and I still have not seen it. The book is addictive. If you don't have it, borrow it off a friend or a library or just break down and buy it.

In other news, sonya_hay needs to send me Latin exercises ( Read more... )

I've spent the weekend house-sitting for cayora's parents in the mountains. This means having access to things like slow dialup, no TV reception, and books I haven't read. That said, I've read seven books already this weekend, the majority children's novels. Love the children's novels.

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Last Sunday, instead of doing an RPG, we watched most of "The Exorcist." I'd never seen it before, but I found it hilarious. The "split pea soup" doesn't look like split pea soup, by the way. I believe the ending sucked, though.

I convinced Dad to buy me a paperback copy of The Godfather and stayed up all night reading it a few nights ago. Good ( Read more... )

After RPG last night, Airen and I went to Village Inn for a late meal because I usually leave Cai's place starving. The hostess recognized us, since this is the third week running. About 2:45, we hear a cell phone ringing and we're the only customers in the place--it's definitely not Airen's ringtone. Searching the booth next to us, we found a ( Read more... )