( In which your humble correspondent stops reading and learns how to love reading again )

Oh life is just so busy and I want to post here but I don't and then I fall so far behind. augh ( Read more... )

I don't want to talk about yesterday's election here in MA. Let's just skip it, okay? Thx.

I wrote the other day that I've already read 5 books in 2010. I thought I'd try to write just a little brief thing about each one. I wanted to start with the most recent, which was Free-Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy. You may have heard of her; she caused a ( Read more... )

Mom started chemo last Monday. So far, knock on wood, it seems to be not-too-bad. She basically seems to have had one day of feeling like utter crap, then a couple days of feeling moderately crappy and very tired. By today, six days later, we spent the day at her house and she seemed fine. I mean we only did calm quiet stuff -- she spent a lot of ( Read more... )

Happy New Year! I'm not going to do an actual "2009 in review" post, because those are boring (sorry, but they are). Let's just say that it was quite an eventful year for me, in good and bad ways. Of course, it drew to a close with me getting a good new job and my mom getting cancer, so that sort of sums up the whole thing, in a way ( Read more... )

You know how sometimes you read a book that's so damn good, you just want it to go on forever? And as soon as you finish it, you want more? You rush right off to find out whether there's a sequel ( Read more... )

Via mofic and wneleh:

15 Books Meme
You're not supposed to think too long or too hard on this one. List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you -- list the first 15 you can recall in 15 minutes. Don't take too long to think about it. Then tag 15 friends and see if they write their own lists (part of the challenge is to think about which 15 friends ( Read more... )

Eons ago (well, sometime before 2004), I was at a Worldcon (that's the World Science Fiction Convention to you mundanes) and someone handed me a free book. This happens frequently at Worldcon, which is one of the many things to love about it ( Read more... )

The white lights on the back of my car that are supposed to turn on when I shift into reverse are not working. A friendly gentleman informed me of this the other day when I was parking. So I immediately (where "immediately" means "on the next available weekend day") took the car off to my mom's mechanic, where they have known me since I was a ( Read more... )

My "read in 2009" tag on LibraryThing is up to 8 books, shortly to be 9. I read six in January! Well on my way to another 40-book year. :)

Books I have read thus far in 2009:

* In the Garden of Iden and its sequel Sky Coyote by Kage Baker. It's a long story, but I have been waiting to read these two books for literally years -- maybe a decade. (I ( Read more... )