Little stray book, oh how you have delivered. Possibly to the point of pandering to my tastes, but so few authors know the way into my heart and my bookshelves is via Hamlet quotes and ravens that I doubt any pandering was intentional. (Here follows blockquotes from Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus! You . . . you knew that was coming, right? I ( Read more... )

DOWN. AND. SAFE.

. . .

If having a t-rex greet you at the airport qualifies as safe. I think it does.


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As Kaja Foglio wrote in Girl Genius, any plan where you lose your hat is a BAD PLAN. Losing all of my hats, this has been a very bad plan indeed. Jägermonster logic says as much.

And then they cancelled my train. Again.

An hour after
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Another day, a few more things falling back into place. Crash space has been offered in Oakland by an amazingly kind and generous fellow merchant. And on Wednesday morning I shall attempt to make my way back east on a train. Through the Donner Pass which so readily avalanched on the tracks before. (Yes, THE Donner Pass.) Running through the back of ( Read more... )

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What ho! I am wending my way west on the California Zephyr. Presently I think I am somewhere between DES Moins and Omaha - however it is pitch black out with fitful punctuations of lightning as we ride through an electrical storm. So it's rather hard to tell ( Read more... )