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Picked up from shadadukal

From the list of 100 top picks of F&SF books by readers. Books/series I have read all of in bold, read some of and have no intention of reading more are underlined, interested in reading/intend to finish in italics.

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A book that looks highly entertaining: Alphabet Juice (link goes to Amazon)

My Sanctuary Bingo card ( below )

Had to share: tiny garden in an Altoids tin (Found by way of Autostraddle.)


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A companion book to Woven Into the Earth: Medieval Garments Reconstructed: Norse Clothing Patterns! It is currently on sale fof $30 rather than $40, and looks to me like a must-have for anyone interested in this era of clothing. I've already ordered a copy :-). I can also recommend David Brown Book Co as a tremendous source of amazingly cool & ( Read more... )

In the spirit of the day, the meme of looking up what the best-sellers were the day one was born (at BibliOZ) gives me Born Free by Joy Adamson as the #3 non-fiction bestseller of the week. The most amusing title on the list is Fiction #13: The Nylon Pirates by Nicholas Monsarrat.

Other happy things:

Fanfare for the Common Man (link goes to ( Read more... )

The Giants won the series! Woo Hoo ( Read more... )

1. First hot chocolate of the season: Yum!

2. SFGiants win the pennant: Yay!

3. Old cat on lap and new cat settling in: Purrrrrrr

4. Weather has finally cooled off enough to have the windows open: happysigh

5. New Vorkosigan book Cryoburn read: OMG!

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synecdochic asked about LJ pages that are hard to find (that is, one had to ask a friend, sieve the FAQs, individually bookmark, etc) so that Dreamwidth can do better, and some of the most mentioned pages were the syndication/RSS pages. They were right -- they are not simple to get to, but because I had been reading the comments, I knew they *could* be found ( Read more... )