Ok, I don't really have a heck of a lot to say about individual readings. Either you like them or you don't. (I'd much rather go to a reading than a panel or an interview ( Read more... )

I have a track record with Gaiman novels - when I pick them up, I'm usually enjoying them a good bit. By the time I get to the end, there always something that bugged me enough that I think "never again." Which is why I mostly stopped reading Gaiman novels, but after The Graveyard Book won the Newbery Award (and I needed a travel book) I decided ( Read more... )

I often complain about sequels that tell pretty much the same story over again. Patrick Ness avoids that pitfall in The Ask and the Answer.

Martin sez:

Very different in tone and pace from first book. Centred around an insurgency which explicitly parallels the Iraq war. Nuanced look at complicity, Todd and Viola become morally compromised by ( Read more... )

( spoilers for the ask and the answer )

or some other form of crud. Yep, I am out sick from work today after one full day back at work. Which is too bad because I have a crushing pile of things to be done ( Read more... )

Work wrong: My company is currently having the second half of our building built and some genius decided that it would be a good idea to wire the fire alarms together now. Which means any time a smoke detector goes off over there, we get to evacuate our building ( Read more... )

I've been watching the Sony e-reader/Kindle/etc. market like a hawk for a while now[1] - I really like the idea of a nice electronic book for certain things, my commute especially ( Read more... )

It appears to have refilled itself with stupid while I wasn't looking (The most amusing thing for me is that the guy is complaining he's been silenced, except he had a chance to respond and used it to spew a racist comment. And now he wants the world to weep for him that he only got one shot. (kynn has the full roundup on his stupid. He's a real ( Read more... )

Or at least that's how it's felt this week. Lots of people asking me how America feels now that Obama is president. (Also a lot of shaking hands - spokesmen must get very weary of that.) There's one guy in my office who comes by with daily Obama updates. Anyway, everyone in the rest of the world, you're welcome ( Read more... )

I've been starting a lot of blog posts lately and abandoning them to my hard drive. But here's one I'll abandon on the internet instead.

( recent reading )