I just finished reading The Sharing Knife: Legacy by Bujold.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

It's a romance novel in fantasy clothing. And it doesn't have much of a plot. The weakest plot I've ever read. And the characters just aren't that interesting. I saw this romance novel trend happening as early as Komarr, but dammit at least Komarr had ( Read more... )

Stardust rocked! I loved hearing the crowd gasp when the witches did an entrail reading for the first time. Muwhahahaa...

Why do I need to move out? Hmmm.
The Half-Price Books warehouse in Seattle is having an everything for a dollar this weekend only sale. Mom told me about it around 8:30 this morning, while dad was out walking the dogs. "As soon as he gets back, we'll go," she said. So I get ready to go and settle down with my book in the meantime. An hour later, ( Read more... )

I retire from the sewing pattern collection frenzy with a total of 115. Well, until they have a Butterick sale, anyway. As for the sewing itself, I've massacred my hat at every step, and at night the sewing elves (mom) come out and fix it. She says I have good theory but poor execution ( Read more... )

Changed my LJ 'cause I was tired of reinforcing my own mental image of people not listening to me. And I want some stability, as well. So, new name. I'm glad I changed it, 'cause that's when I noticed that I can now have up to 6 icons! Woot. Hence, the Hello Kitty skipping Cthuluulushdeu. Other fun things will ensue ( Read more... )

I named my Amber character Cashmere. Very late in the game last time, she was drugged along with most everyone else in the party (without any ill effects so far- it seems to have been one of the players simply trying to slip away). Other than that, not very much has happened with my character. It's been two sessions now, and none of the characters ( Read more... )

Switched out the CPU cooler in persephone (most frustrating thing I've done all year, including all parental stuff). She's much quieter now, only a bit louder than Mutie. I'm thinking of dragging down mom's old e-machhine so I can have something to run MTv's music generator on; I can't even find any reviews of music mixer software anywhere, let ( Read more... )

Life just feels better when all your laundry is clean. I wonder what it'd feel like if my room was clean too?

Finished The Hallowed Hunt. Not terribly impressed, but still okay. The characters just didn't grab me they way they usually do in Bujold books. Interesting magic system though. Started a new series that I think I'm really really going to ( Read more... )