A few weeks ago I received, via the LibraryThing Early Review program, a review copy of the English translation of the book Dare... to Try Bisexuality. Here is my review ( Read more... )

The fine folks at O'Reilly sent me reviewer copy of two books on Erlang

• Erlang Programming: A Concurrent Approach to Software Development by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson
  
• Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World by Joe Armstrong.
  

I am currently in the process of learning Erlang for a personal project. These books both measures ( Read more... )

I'm probably insane.

Writing MySQL Plugins
by Mark Atwood, et al

I predict a number of co-authors.

I got a pleasant surprise in the mail today: a tightly wrapped package stamped "MEDIA MAIL", containing a copy of Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. gipsieee had lent me her copy. I read it all in one sitting ( Read more... )

I filed away the books of mine that I brought back from my parents house. One of them was the "Billy and the Boingers Bootleg". While flipping thru it, I came across the short storyline where Binkey's closet of anxieties served up himself from twenty years in the future ( Read more... )

I finally read my copy of The Speed of Dark, which has been sitting on my shelf for 16 months. gipsieee read this copy a few weeks ago, and it affected her deeply. It affected me deeply as well, but I cannot presently articulate just how or why.

But as for me, I would not have taken the treatment.

(The book is now part of the house's bookcrossing

I just got done reading Rainbows End.

I think I'm going to buy a voting-only membership to WorldCon, just so's I can vote for it for the Hugos.

It's Vinge as he always was, only more so, more refined, and better.

The SF was crystal hard.

The characterizations and voices were perfect.

He reprises some of his familiar tropes, but does them very extremely ( Read more... )

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I finally got around to reading David Gerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself yesterday. I had bought my copy at NorWesCon `03, at the author's dealer table ( Read more... )

I'm starting my listen to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In re my previous observation about the lack of brains of the people in the story, here is my next observation.

If it's CRITICALLY important that someone do something, and it's something they would rather not do (stay with their unsufferable uncle and aunt, ferex), EXPLAIN WHY ( Read more... )