I'm currently in CA, near San Francisco. My good friend Usakeh's mother has just died, so I have come out here to offer moral support. It's quite a blow for anyone, and harder when your mom is so young. millari is here, too, and it's been nice to spend time together. Things I like about it here: it's so sunny and mild; the gorgeous countryside of ( Read more... )

Yesterday M and I went back to Andover and celebrated the holiday with my family and hers together at the LANAM club.  It was all buffet style this year, and it created a relaxed atmosphere that made it the best Thanksgiving meal in many years.   It didn't hurt that we got there on time, for once.

Afterwards, I watched most of 2001 with my brother ( Read more... )

After some thought, I believe I know why I found the epilogue to Harry Potter 7 disappointing.  (Many others have told me that they hated it, too, but no one who's explained their dislike to me feels as I do.)  Nineteen years after defeating Voldemort, Harry (when he would be only a year younger than I am now) and his friends is seeing his two sons ( Read more... )

I haven't made much time for reading these past two months, but I have made my way through a few good books.

The currently extant Temeraire books, His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade and Black Powder War.  In brief, they posit a world in which dragons are real, but which is otherwise the same as ours.  The protagonist is Captain William Laurence of ( Read more... )

When I was younger, from when I learned to read into my mid twenties, I read a lot.  Science Fiction and fantasy mostly, but I read a fair bit of history, some science fact, and other fiction, too.  I noticed last week that I don't read much prose anymore.  I read a lot of the stuff that comes into the store, of course, and unlike
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