Today's local paper is confusing. There's a picture of kids attending a local Purim event on the front page, which, wrong holiday? Ah, okay, upon further investigation, the article and photo are part of a series of articles on Judaism in the region. It's still a bit weird to feature a photo from Purim on Passover ( Read more... )

So, hey, what's up! In no particular order, here are things that are making me happy.

Marian Call's new album!!!! I love her music so much, you guys! And not just because of her Firefly-inspired songs. And now there is new music that I don't know yet -- it's like my birthday all over again. Actually, that might be when I placed my pre-order. ( Read more... )

You guys, I have read/finished three books this week, two of which were actually bad and one which was well-written but ultimately not my thing (bookclub).

What should I read next? I have ebook money! (And a stack o' books, but ebook money.) Recommend me things?

... wow, I am that vague customer.

The Dreamwidth version of this entry ( Read more... )

Is it when the hero's first impression of the heroine is that she makes him "tight in his jeans"? How about when the hero follows up on this oh-so-sexy introduction with a phone call to his mom, during which he bemoans the large number of one night stands he's had and which are not in keeping with how mom raised him? Do I stop reading when an ( Read more... )

One of my books has a hole bored in it! By a BUG. Eek! And though it's just a mass market, I just pulled it off the shelf with my OLD books -- including the copy of Arabian Nights Grandpa took to basic during WWII and a copy of Die Heilige Schrift that belong to my great great (great?) aunt. I AM NOT HAPPY and SCARED TO LOOK ( Read more... )

Whee. I've not been around much at all. And I have tabs open dating back to October 29th. At this point, I feel like any comment is a bit superfluous, but I also feel bad about not responding. Hm ( Read more... )

In another window, sisterofdream is failing to talk me out of eating a Hostess Cupcake and calling it dinner. Perhaps I should mention that I also plan to drink rhum? Nah.

dessert_first successfully talked me into dSSS. (Well, mostly reminded me that I hadn't signed up yet before time ran out.)

I spent yesterday reading Vampire Mistress by Joey Hill. When combined ( Read more... )

I bought a book because of synchronicity and spent today reading it. The other night I was straightening up when I found an eye-catching book. It turned out to be a sequel, and so I was looking at the description of the original on the computer when this guy walked up with what he called a 'hopeless' request -- he was looking for the sequel to a ( Read more... )

Leave for movie, or have a beer? Atypically, I'm leaning towards the latter because I actually have decent beer in the house for once and there are later showings.

Also, I finished Carriger's Blameless. Story and character-wise, I loved it as much as the prior two books. But I am hacked off at it/the author due to a single idiotic joke. ( The joke )

I had an entire glass of wine and now feel ill. Woe. More woe -- I cannot lie down, for my bed is covered in BOOKS. I undertook a Project earlier today and clearly have not completed it ( Read more... )