Earlier this month, I tweeted, "I would make a post about Kady Cross's The Girl in the Steel Corset, but it's so laughably bad that I wouldn't know where to start." The author replied to me (in good humor) saying no one had ever called her writing "laughably bad" before. I was actually kind of alarmed at the possibility that no one had yet pointed ( Read more... )

Reduced Information IntakeI'm greatly reducing the things I read. I pruned my friends list, stopped reading fueledbygossip and Bandom TFLN (to the extent that I deleted them from my history so they wouldn't show up and tempt me when I start typing into the location bar), and stopped following Nathan Fillion and the majority of TAI's hangers-on and ( Read more... )

I read Morgan Howell's The Shadowed Path trilogy (A Woman Worth Ten Coppers, Candle in the Storm, and The Iron Palace) based primarily on the back of the book blurb on the first book:Seer, healer, goddess, slave - she is all these things and more ( Read more... )