...read!

It feels like it's been ages, but I'm actually reading fiction again.  I've been reading A Turn of Light by Julie Czerneda, and I might actually finish the damn thing before the online book club that difrancis has organized meets next ( Read more... )

I've been reading, but alas, it's non-fiction at the moment.

Still, the title ought to give a few people pause:  Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels, by Sarah Wendell (aka Smart Bitch Sarah) from smartbitchestrashybooks.com.

Yes, you read that right.

No, I'm not planning on starting a romance novel habit.

I am enjoying the book a ( Read more... )

Here:   Making Room for Readers

Go.

Read.

That is why we encourage our kids to read.

Finding Love in Bookstores: an eyewitness account

Who knew?  Then again, I hung out in the SFF section when I was in high school and college, an 80's nerd hangout as it were.

From controuble who got it from other points across the blogosphere:

What Be Your Nerd Type?
Your Result: Literature Nerd

Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary sitting there with your insomniac appearance? Then you fit this category ( Read more... )

Some people don't mind what format their books come in.  A book is a book is a book.

I am not those people.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not a hardcover snob or a Kindle freak, but I like the books within a series to be the same format.  If I bought the first book as a hardcover, I'll buy all of the rest of the books in hardcover as well.  I've been ( Read more... )

msagara has a great post today about description, and what keeps her from skipping those paragraphs and heading straight for the dialogue.

Go check out her article on description.

EtA: To clear up any confusion, this is an article about the reaction to reading description, not writing it.

(This post may seem to be coming a bit late, but some schools have only recently gotten out for the Summer.)

I'm sure that most people are aware of Summer reading programs for kids at your local library.  They typically have all sorts of incentives (cheap trinkets) to get your child reading instead of playing around on the console game system.  But ( Read more... )

Oh, not for me.

I'm just happy that kristenbritain  announced that her fourth novel, Blackveil, has been given a slot for April 2011.  Go, Kristen!

Nine years ago, I abandoned my software development job for my current position as an IT security administrator.  While life as a code jockey was fun, it also meant long hours away from home; there was a stretch of some months in 1998 where I worked an average of 80 hours a week on a critical project that was behind schedule.  There were years ( Read more... )