It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between Two Children Against the World at an Extreme Time in History but let's face it that would be a load of crap ( Read more... )

It is my weekly Tuesday READ THE INTERNET AT WORK night and of course the internet is not providing me anything of note.

Sigh, sigh, sigh.

Instead, I have on my desk a paperback of Heart's Delight by Per Nilsson, whose Booklist blurb promises "may well become the Forever of a new generation ( Read more... )

I woke up at 9 this morning with a crick in my neck and a tight jaw. For the second night in a row, I had dreams that I was a victim. Leaving work, a man in a red pickup, staring. Making me go back inside and get my co-workers to escort me to my car, so sure was I that something was going to happen. Driving a car and not being able to hit the ( Read more... )

This morning I made the 83 mile drive down to San Antonio for ALA's Midwinter conference. I'll confess, I wasn't really going for the conference so much as the exhibits hall, for which my school had thoughtfully provided a free pass (a $25 value!). I figured, hell, for the cost of a half a tank of gas, I could hop down to S.A. for the day, check ( Read more... )