I've heard so much about this novelette, often people praising it as "the best modern vampire story ever written" and things along those lines. I actually started reading it once before, a few years ago, but I didn't get very far in and was distracted away from it by something or other (this happens to me a lot; I tend to read multiple books at ( Read more... )

Before I start posting book entries, I thought I'd give a quick note on how I intend to go about them.

All posts will be headed with the title of the book/story and the author (I think this way it should be easy for people who have no interest to know they can simply skip over the entry), and tagged reading journal; all will also be unlocked, so ( Read more... )

The high yesterday was -8° F. Right now it's -24° F. This is without the windchill. Sometimes I just love living in Minnesota ( Read more... )

A few years ago, I used to keep a reading journal, where I'd write down thoughts on whatever books I'd been reading. It wasn't reviews, really; it was more informal than that, and often irreverent, and the length varied greatly, from a quick note that I'd read and liked something, to rambling entries discussing minutiae. However, though I kept it ( Read more... )