Wow. Just finished a back-to-back-to-back Harry Potter readthrough. Three weeks or so, including holidays. Three weeks of these books ( Read more... )

How irritating is it when a professional (?) reviewer is actually a really mediocre writer?

Some guy posted a link to his review on a fairly profi-looking website, and yet when you read the review, it sounds like a book essay a high schooler would write - a high-schooler who didn't much care for the book or their English grade and just wanted to ( Read more... )

So, I'mna go downtown in a bit, but I just wanna tell you about something I read this AM that is .... an issue, let's say ( Read more... )

A Real Life Update will come in a sec. Just now, though, I got massively sidetracked onto my old Media Updates, and so now I am going to Update My Media, because that's what good Picos do.

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(and comics)

Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett
---- re(rerere)read
---- finished up
---- oh gosh, Dorfl, :D
Alanna: the First ( Read more... )

PICO'S GREAT BIG GRANDE MEDIA CONSUMED IN 2013 LIST

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Jan

Virtual Light, William Gibson
Idoru, William Gibson
The Ultimate Cyberpunk Anthology, edited: Pat Cadigan
---- will have words about this in the future
Babel-17, Samuel R Delaney
---- reread
Small Pig, Arnold Lobel ( Read more... )

Actually, next on the list of Necessary Posts Needed to be Maded would be An Update Of The Media-Consumed List Of 2012, to which I say:

Good lord.

Because I am beginning to forget whati read and watched in what months. I have been that wharrgarbl about what's been going on.

So. Let's try this another way.

An Update Of The Media-Consumed List ( Read more... )

Did lots of caring-for-mom today. And reading. Finished a book yesterday and one today. Thus, now, an update to my media entry, because I have read a billion things this month.

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Books

Jan

The Little Engine That Could, Watty Piper
Eloise Takes a Bawth, Kay Thompson/Hilary Knight
The Night Walker, Richard Thompson/Martin Springett
Can't You ( Read more... )

Just as it says, folks!

Books, Movies, and Shows of 2012!

Books

Jan

A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K Le Guin
---- no matter how many times I read the Earthsea books, I love them.
The Midwife's Apprentice, Karen Cushman
Catherine, Called Birdy, Karen Cushman
---- my childhood! Also, excellent YA books about the Middle Ages.
The Little Engine ( Read more... )

Ladies and Gents, it is time I updated that poor, long-neglected Media-Consumed List of 2011! Why is it time? Because I have consumed much media, recently, having been in kind of a funk (which I am toothing and clawing my way out of), and I figure I ought to record this momentous stuff and not be lazy.

ONWARDS!

o dang i hope i remember ( Read more... )

And, as always, the day improves! I just spent two and a half hours skipping badminton (which I'm not to hot at anyway) and painting Easter eggs! It was a marked improvement on the previous ( Read more... )