I was checking out wikipedia, and it looks like the third installment in James Ellroy's American Underworld trilogy will be out this summer.

It'll be called Blood's a Rover, and it will cover the years 1968 to 1973.

CrapPratchett, who's 59, was diagnosed with a mini-stroke this year (to be more accurate, they found evidence of a mini-stroke that he had suffered from at some point within the last few years), and doctors have informed him that he is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease ( Read more... )

I picked up a copy of S.M. Stirling's "Island in a Sea of Time" last night.

I'm 115 pages into it so far, and I'm loving it.

The premise: the island of Nantucket, circa 1998, is transported to 1250 B.C ( Read more... )

I watched the Golden Compass tonight.

I enjoyed it, and I'd give it about a 7 out of 10.
( Spoilers? )

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"I sell my soul, but at the highest rates."
-Harlan Ellison

Personally, my soul isn't for sale.

It's for lease.

(Via Dvorak Uncensored.)

J.K. Rowling said recently that Dumbledore is gay.

(via Sibylla)
( A bit o' discussion of the Deathly Hallows is under the cut. )

Robert Jordan passed away today ( Read more... )

I wonder what would happen if I went to a bookstore and put the dust jacket for a few copies of Deathly Hallows onto hardcover copies of earlier Harry Potter books?

I can't decide.

Either I'm demanding more Neville Longbottom,

or I'm simply clamoring for more Neville Longbottom.

I watched Order of the Phoenix tonight.

I thought it was fun, with room for improvement.

Kurt Vonnegut died today (well, April 11th) from brain injuries he had gotten from a fall.

He was 84.

He also wrote Slaughterhouse-Five, which is a damn fine novel.