1) It's my mother's birthday today! She's just turned 29. Or so she says. Since she's the mother of a science fiction author, I think we can go with that, can't we?

2) The latest Freddy the Pig entry is up at Tor.com. This one covers Freddy the Detective, which was a really fun book. But you may not be able to read it, because ( Read more... )

So I picked up The Gathering Storm, the latest tome in the ongoing Wheel of Time opus, and I have a few ( spoilery things to say about it: )