I tell you,after watching staff members decorate the Children's room, the Teen room, the front desk, the window with trees and bows and pretty wrapped packages, after dealing with laser scanners with reindeer horns and Santa hats,  I am this close to putting up a book display centered upon "Atheism, Fuck Yeah!"

Of course, when I groused to my fellow ( Read more... )

Yeah, last weekend was All Saints Sunday.  And even if I couldn’t make it into church to get my yearly dose of “I Sing A Song Of The Saints Of God”, my loving daughter gave me a phone call to make sure that I wouldn’t be deprived.  (Children, such a blessing!)  Of course, that always reminds me of the version we sang back in seminary, most of which ( Read more... )

You see what happens when I finally catch up on my reviews and even take a week off?

A whole lot of reading, that’s what happens.  Let’s see if I can remember any of it.

FICTION
Phoenix Rising:  A Ministry of Peculiar Occurences Novel, by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris.
            I keep thinking that I ought to love Steampunk, so I keep trying it, ( Read more... )

FICTION

*THE AGENT OF CHANGE SEQUENCE (LIADEN)  by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.
     "The man who was not Terrence O'Grady had come quietly." Ah, sometimes when I'm feeling *really* bad and need comfort reading, NOTHING will do but Korval. Spaceships! Car chases!  Spies!  Massive conspiracies! Pirates!  Gangsters!  Psychic wizards!  Cats! Carpets! ( Read more... )

Anyway, I did want to get a "Done Read" post in, even though I've mostly been reading review books frantically.

(BTW, if you love middle-grade and YA fantasy, you have an AWESOME summer ahead of you, slathered in AWESOMESAUCE with a big helping of AWESOMESPRINKLES!)

Let's see:

Fiction:
Alexei Panshin, STAR WELL. 
   Folks over at the Slacktiverse have ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've done one of these, right?

Surely I've read something besides review books in the past month.

/stares at counter where Books-Done-Read reside, until I figure out what to do with them/

Ummm....

Whelp, there's definitely books there.  At least rectangular blocks of bound paper.  Let's see...

Fiction

Suzanne Brockmann.  BREAKING ( Read more... )

Some folks were kind enough to express an interest in seeing this after I finished it ( Read more... )

Books read this week (aside from those for review)

Fiction

Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Mara, Daughter of the Nile.
   Even though I know it is woefully historically inaccurate (and despite the sexism and Aristo-Yay) I found myself drawn to re-reading this nearly fifty year old paeon to Egypt and revolution -- I wonder why?  For whatever reason, I was ( Read more... )

I was sure that I had read something for sheer pleasure this week, but gazing through the piles o' stuff on the floor, all I saw was

Meljean Brook, THE IRON DUKE.
   Pirates!  Zombies! Airships!  Nanotech!  Murders! Orphan waifs! All wrapped up in a vaguely steampunkish-setting! What's not to love?  And yes, for the most part this was a sheer ( Read more... )

Still cold, still crabby, still glomming on comfort books.

Alas,  favorite authors let me down, and when I turned to some highly-touted m/m I’d downloaded to the e-reader, things went from bad to worse.  At least there was some excellent manga to save the week.

Fiction

Mary Balogh.  THE CHRISTMAS PROMISE.         
     I was so pleased to ( Read more... )