June wasn’t a very good reading month for me, unfortunately. It seems like I abandoned as many books as I finished! Still, there were some gems in among the ho-hum, and here’s a list of everything I managed to get through, and my (brief) thoughts on each:


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I’m a little late with my summer reading picks-it seems like all the major players did theirs ages ago. But the solstice was yesterday, school is finally out for pretty much everyone still in school, and now is a great time to settle in with an engrossing summer vacation read. So here are my picks for awesome books to devour this summer:
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So, I've started this blog. A "professional" one. With my name on it and everything. And I've started actually posting some stuff there. Since it seems like I've all but abandoned this journal (though I still read my friends page daily!), I figure it might be a good idea to direct any interested individuals over there.

So, here is my new blogIf ( Read more... )

In place of an actual update (forthcoming, I promise!), have a meme. Taken from glorious_clio.

What books are your comfort reading--the ones you slink back to in times of stress?In times of stress, it's best for me to dive into books I haven't read so I can lose myself in new worlds and situations. The books I cozy up with when I'm in the mood for an old ( Read more... )

I was very, very sad to learn yesterday that Realms of Fantasy is closing. It was by far my favorite short fiction venue, and I don't feel that any other zine truly fills its niche. For the past couple years my goal as a writer has been to eventually be published there, and now I don't really know what to aspire to. The closure was so sudden the ( Read more... )

Finished.

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I decided to finally revive my book review site, Bibliophile, after a more than two year hiatus, kicking off the resurrection with two new reviews (Kelley Armstrong's urban fantasy The Summoning and Cory Doctorow's too-real not-quite-sci-fi Little Brother). The site is strictly YA in this incarnation, and if you're interested, the LJ feed is still ( Read more... )

Fantasy Magazine asks the tough question: Is Our Nation Safe from Terrorists Trolls?

In other terrorism-related news, I started reading Cory Doctorow's Little Brother online at work today, and it is the most terrifying book I have ever read, because it's full of scary evil government-type things, every one of which can/has/does/will happen. This ( Read more... )

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed ( Read more... )

Sorry about the lack of updates. Life was really boring, and then all of a sudden it got really busy in a still-boring kind of way, doing temp work for my mom, having doctor's appointments, etc ( Read more... )