It seems like ever since I started keeping my laptop next to my bed (it's been over a year now) I've grown terribly lazy (and cheap) in my reading habits, reading (and often re-reading and even re-re-reading) fanfics online instead of actual books by even favorite authors.

I even read the latest Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan-verse novel ( Read more... )

I got this email announcement -- which doesn't do anything for me since I'm still clinging desperately to paper books and refusing to do the e-books thing as yet -- and figured I'd pass it along to anyone who does happen to have a Kindle:
Adam Hamilton's new book When Christians Get it Wrong is available on Kindle for $.99 this week only.
I'm ( Read more... )

I'd been looking through my bookshelves (now that I have most of my paperback sci-fi, at least, ON bookshelves again, following my move), trying to find a poem I remember reading years ago in the dedication of a collection of short stories, and only today did it finally occur to me to Google the words that I remembered from this poem ( Read more... )

Having already written my "sci-fi television this weekend" post, I can now fill in the various ways I managed to fill the rest of my time this weekend, so as not to actually have to work on my dissertation until today ( Read more... )

As soon as I started thinking about what made Elsie Lee stand out for me in the Gothic genre (capable heroines who are smarter and often more dangerous -- when they need to be -- than the b**tards who try to grind them down: illegitimii non carborundum, or however it's spelled!), I had to give credit to a male science fiction author who did the ( Read more... )

I've been having so much fun discussing Georgette Heyer novels (and being reminded that I have more "favorites" among her books than can be listed at one sitting), that I thought I'd send up a test balloon and see if there might be anyone else among my LJ friends who harbors a secret fondness for the romance novels of Elsie Lee ( Read more... )

I'm operating on less-than-optimal amounts of sleep, today (for reasons which will become obvious), but please bear with me. Or don't. You can skip the dull parts about a series of books you may never have read (which I'll hide behind the cut-tags), and just get to the part where I hope the relevance to my own recent journey will become clear ( Read more... )