So, with the year winding down I took a few minutes out this morning to count the number of books I've purchased this year:

Grand Total: 53 ( Read more... )

Writing

While I'm still eyeing my opening chapter and wondering what to do with it, I'm almost finished with Chapter Seventeen. So, progress is being made.


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August is always my favorite month of the year. This August was a pretty good one.

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So, I finished reading Mad Kestral


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One thing I did not manage to do this first half of the year was read as much as I would have liked. I plan on fixing that in this second half. At the moment, I have a list of books lined up that will keep me busy for the remainder of the year, and I have a sub-list of books recommended that are outside of my norm to break up my reading pattern ( Read more... )

So, we're still in the middle of the whole relocation thing, living in a hotel until the corporate-approved moving company gives us an actual move date. Because of this my reading has mostly ground to a halt. In the whirlwind of preparations to start a two-day driving journey from southern Alabama to central New York, I failed to pack any of the ( Read more... )

I have a very long list of things to read. For my professional career (IT) I've a few thousand pages of required reading so fitting in personal reading time will be a bit of work, but still a necessary one.

So, here is my list of things I plan on reading this year. Some, I have already started.

CROWN OF STARS by Kate Elliottkateelliott

*King's Dragon - ( Read more... )

So,

Earlier this year I decided on a new reading tactic. I would buy the opening book of a bunch of different series and read the 1st book of each one to see what they were like.

So, here's what I've read so far:

The Shepherd's Daughter - Book 1 of the Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon
A Game of Thrones - Book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire by ( Read more... )

So, I managed to not write a single word this weekend, but that was to be expected. Between a late-night software update and a football party out of state, I had no expectations of writing ( Read more... )

So, I just received my copy of karenmiller's THE INNOCENT MAGE from Amazon. I've read the prologue and already enjoy her writing style and her dialogue. I'm looking forward to reading the entire thing.

The best part is the concluding book 2 comes out on October 1st, so no long wait.