I'm reading the Stargate: Atlantis novel "Reliquary" by Martha Wells, and it is CREEPY AS FUCK. Oh my god. I read like a third of it last night and finally had to stop because I was so creeped out, and I wanted to finish it today but I had this work thing and didn't get home until ten, and now I want to pick it up and read it again because The ( Read more... )

I am reading "The Host" by Stephanie Meyer... and liking it.

I have a new computer! I can now has internets! And the campaign is over, so I have TIME to play with my computer! I missed you guys lots ( Read more... )

I am re-reading The Princess Diaries and omggggggg I had almost forgotten how EXCITED I get while reading. I'm at the part where everyone finds out Mia is a princess and Michael Moscovitz (MOST PERFECT BOY EVER, Y/Y?) is teasing her about it and then Lilly and Michael get into a fight and just OH.MY.GOD. FLAILING SO HARD. I HAD TO STOP READING ( Read more... )

My favorite short story of ever is "Snow" by John Crowley. I posted about it before, years ago, in like 2005.

Today I found it on google books! So now you can read it too. It's just several pages long so you have NO EXCUSES.

( Stuff I read in 2009... )

So while I read all Terry Pratchett's Discworld books when they come out, and have purchased (but not yet had time to read) his YA book Nation, somehow I had let his children's Discworld books pass me by. I mean, I saw them in the store but just... never picked them up. The Wee Free Men, really? That's a title guaranteed to have me not reading the ( Read more... )

Okay, so I've decided I'm going to try to do that "Read 50 Books This Year" thing, since I'm one of those people who reads 1/3 or 2/3 of a book, skims the plotty parts, and then drops it in favor of another. SO. HERE. ACCOUNTABILITY. This will be difficult because I want to only count books I have read in their entirety, without skimming or ( Read more... )

*points to icon* This is one of the ones I was talking about being proud of in my last post. Also others, but especially this one. I'm so glad callmelydia has restarted voy_stillness because I am now a veritable Voyager-icon-making machine. Or, well, in the past week I've made six, which is a lot for me.

I also have an icon I am working on for starttheclock that I just CANNOT GET ( Read more... )

Random thought: In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, why does no one have a daemon that is something unwieldy like an elephant or even a horse or rhinoceros? I just imagine some tiny person with an elephant daemon, trying to walk into buildings and down alleyways WITH THIS HUGE ELEPHANT. And it is hilarious. OR, why don't they have ( Read more... )