Wow...it's been forever since I've updated here. I suppose there just hasn't been anything to report. I'm still stuck in the limbo phase (FLESH AND GLASS / New Idea / Just keep pouring out weird short stories) where I can't decide on anything.  The most recent thing I've written was a trippy short story, like, half an hour ago. It was inspired by ( Read more... )

Book: Beauty by Robin McKinley
Pages: 325 (paperback)
Genre: Fantasy

Summary (from bn.com):
A strange imprisonment
Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage.

When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted ( Read more... )

Book: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Pages: 246 (Paperback)
Genre: Fantasy

Summary (from bn.com):
From childhood, Aerin had been haunted by the story of her mother--a "witchwoman" who enspelled the king and then died in childbirth, leaving behind a newborn daughter and an heirless land. Left to her own devices, Aerin grew up wild, doing her ( Read more... )