Hey folks. I know I am still pretty sucky at posting and reading as of late; rest assured that things are great here and I am still kept very busy with a healthy, thriving, and adorable 5-month-old William. But I did want to make sure to let you all know that my husband dayzdark's second novel, Lesson of the Fire, will be available as a free download for ( Read more... )

Readers of fantasy fiction! I have a mission for you. We are going to call this mission Operation: Give jimhines All The Money.

I have decided to send you all on this mission because I have just finished reading and enjoying The Snow Queen's Shadow, which is the fourth and final book in Jim C. Hines' "Princess" series. The whole series is completely worth ( Read more... )

So by now most of you are probably aware that Orson Scott Card wrote a pretty bad novella about Hamlet's gay dad. It took me a while to find out this was happening, because despite the profound importance that Ender's Game held for me as a teenager, I've been really ambivalent about its quality and about all other things Card for a long time now. I ( Read more... )

Unsurprisingly, I have once again gone for much too long without posting anything of substance here. So here's the brief catch-up version of what's been going on in my life ( Read more... )

First: Since I know there is currently another round of "holy crap back up EVERYTHING" going around due to the string of DDoS attacks that LJ is currently suffering from, I will mention, as others have been doing, that I have the same name on Dreamwidth as I do here, that all of my LJ content is mirrored to DW, and that you are all welcome to add ( Read more... )

Last night I finished reading The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, which is the long-awaited sequel to The Name of the Wind which is probably one of the best books I've read in the past decade. It was about 994 pages long, so I find it only fitting to distill the entire thing down into a summary in convenient spoiler-free haiku form:

I had ( Read more... )

First,a few music-related announcements!

As I've mentioned a few times before, Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters have an electric show this Saturday night, February 5, at the Terminal Bar in Minneapolis. The show also features our sibling band, The Potential Slayers, and another group called Voodoo who I'm really looking forward to hearing ( Read more... )

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As I mentioned recently, both dayzdark and I have been reading a lot of books lately. One series that we both read and found interesting was the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. I know I mentioned liking the first book, The Hunger Games, a while back, so I will focus right now on the second and third books, Catching Fire and Mockingjay. ( Read more... )

First off, some news about the Player Characters - my apologies if you've seen any of this already, and please disregard it if that is the case:

As some of you already know from the band's Facebook fan page, peloria will be away all summer long and thus will not be participating in any of our shows until she returns to Minnesota sometime this fall. We ( Read more... )