I am taking a page from Katie and Cofax, and am going to start doing "what I'm reading" entries... which I understand should be a Wed. thing, and I'll get on track with that soon. But to start...

Finished relatively recently...

Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo, and Twelve Days of Terror: A Definitive ( Read more... )

For the first time this morning, I felt a sense of distance and detachment from the whole HP mania going on, and actually had a little tiny twinge of regret about it. Not a big twinge at all. Just a, "yeah, that must be kind of fun for the folks who are participating ( Read more... )

... Happy birthday, _minxy_!!! Hope it was filled with wonderful things!

and

... Happy birthday to CANADA! ...Which I now appreciate ever so much more after (this week) finishing my TOME OF CANADIAN HISTORY, so that now I know stuff like what Confederation actually *is* and when it actually *happened* and all. Also? I can now name about 3 times as ( Read more... )

Huh. I haven't updated in a while. Mostly because I haven't really been doing anything update-worthy ( Read more... )

(This will matter to very few people out there, but...)

AAAAAAAHHHHHHH! raqs kindly informed me that the latest Suzanne Brockmann book is out, which is good, as I totally wouldn't have thought it was yet. But she totally neglected to say that it's not just Max and Gina's story, it's also more Molly/Jones, as well! EEEEEEEEE! Man, I TOLD HER there was ( Read more... )

So, weeks ago, we all remember when Dove's "real" models made such a splash, and that was cool, although one's glee was somewhat tempered by the contradiction inherent in what they were being used to sell ( Read more... )

And now... "Suna no Utsuwa": What Really Happened (in the book, which unhelpfully, is different from the TV adaptation in several important respects, but which kind of made some things clearer nonetheless).

( Book vs. TV: Fight! )

Just recently, I purchased on VCD an 11-part Japanese drama called "Suna no Utsuwa", for the sole reason that it co-stars Ken Watanabe, plus it looked intriguing from the stuff I could find out about it on the web. I purchased, and just finished watching, these VCDs, despite the fact that they are subtitled only in Chinese -- and needless to say, ( Read more... )

Ah, the New Year is now truly upon us; today I took down the tree.

I have a fondness for books about the history of the English language. Or, I should say, I have a fondness for Bill Bryson's two books, Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way, and Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States. Indeed, ( Read more... )

The overwhelmingly massive *SNORT* that I let out when I got this result means that I have to share it... Let's all have a resounding chorus of, "No DUH."


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