Hmm, interesting meme.  The hard part is limiting myself to only 15, because I pick at least one favorite character in everything I read. And I'm just now over 600 books on LibraryThing, and not finished cataloging. >.<

List fifteen of your favorite characters from different series, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're ( Read more... )

Book meme, last seen on suededsilk's journal.

( I DID try to keep it short, I promise. )

Behold, the unveiling of a new and rarely-seen National Weather Service icon!  (I.e., Friday's, with a forecast high of 26.)


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At our home weather station, the temperature fell from 73 to 57 in one hour.  Nice.  Three hours later and it's fallen another 10 degrees.

I AM working on Bible study. Slowly.  Y'know what's the Distraction of the Day?  The Gate of Ivrel.  Yep, I just happened to pick up the Morgaine books again today.  I've read it four times already and it still ( Read more... )

Acting on jordannamorgan's recommendation of the Mr. Moto films and Wikipedia's description of the Mr. Moto books by John P. Marquand, a couple weeks ago I found myself the proud possessor of four out of six novels.  Unsurprisingly, given my track record, I zoomed through all four in less than a week.

Wikipedia supplies a lot of analysis in a lengthy and slightly ( Read more... )

Forcing myself to write about the MacLean books has been good for me. (Don't get me wrong; I love to write about MacLean. It's just work, like anything besides reading is, for me, Work.)  In some ways PaperBackSwap has been a greater temptation than a blessing.  The sheer volume of my reading this year is staggering.  I couldn't keep up with a ( Read more... )