Sorry Zhie, probably made you think this might have something to do with hobbits.  Nope, it's about knitting (which I firmly believe hobbits do a lot of).  Well, knitting and how I really ought to update this blog more.  Internet or no internet, I should still be able to post at least once a week if I write the entry in advance and post it during ( Read more... )

Hello everybody. Have returned to this journal after several months of first having little to no internet access, and then having a rather hectic real life for a bit. Really I suppose I ought to expect that blogging comes last on my list of things to do, what with school, work, family, and my writer's group keeping me busy. Anyway I'll be jumping ( Read more... )

Just a quick post to let you know that my computer has completely crashed.  The hard drive could not be fixed but was replaced instead, only for the modem to die, so it's now going back to the shop.  I was able to patch up some home internet access with my laptop but the connection is even more unreliable than usual and this computer is rather slow ( Read more... )

For those of you who love Neil Gaiman,
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First, apologies for not posting the promised reviews. I ended up taking a surprise vacation and didn't have any internet access where I was. I'll have a review or two up later today.

My free Early Reviewer book has arrived! It came on August 12th but I was gone all day so I didn't get a chance to look at it until today. It's a nice hardcover and ( Read more... )

I'm very busy right now but I just wanted to let you guys know that my earlier post about LT must have been prophetic, because I just checked my e-mail and I've finally landed an early reviewer book! The book that will be sent to me for review is From Fasting to Feasting: A Unique Journey Through the Jewish Holidays by Joe Bobker.

So there you ( Read more... )

I was just about to start writing an entry about how I really, really want to be picked for an Early Reviewer book, but first I wanted to mention some related news. I just signed on to LT and was perusing the home page feature when I noticed that one of the "Hot Reviews" was a book I own and have read (The Faith Club, Review #3). So I started ( Read more... )

What follows is a list, in roughtly chronological order, of all of the retold tales that I remember reading, from early childhood favorites to the many retold tales I've read in the last year. Currently it does not include individual short stories.  Generally there is some commentary added, and links to the various reviews where applicable.

The ( Read more... )

Today I uploaded my fixed form prose subcollection to LibraryThing (it's only four books), as well as the rest of my C. S. Lewis fiction.  I also began entering my writing books subcollection, which has at least 50 books, but I only did the ones off of one shelf, they are all tagged "about writing" but the shelf notation is in the comments as I don ( Read more... )

I've uploaded several more sub-collection books into my LibraryThing account.  The Dead Sea Scrolls (which I've yet to read) which I'd overlooked in the initial book-uploading frenzy, Benedict's Dharma which I'd been reading at that time (and will have to return to the rule of St. Benedict someday), and One Island Many Faiths, which I just recently ( Read more... )