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So this is the first time I've been online in five days. Yes, I've spent the past three hours glued to the screen, but I'm almost caught up. Minus the webcomics. Those will have to wait until I'm feeling ambitious (mostly because I've neglected them for at least a couple weeks at this point). End result? I like finding other ways to be productive than being plugged in all the time.
Which is good, since we leave for the honeymoon on the 23rd and won't have internet access for almost two full weeks. Who wants a postcard? And of where? (Your options: Rome, Italy; Izmir, Turkey; Athens, Mykonos, Santorini, Greece.) We still plan to check nothing on the plane (in either direction) and this is rapidly becoming less of a challenge than we thought.
63. The Ainu and Their Folk-Lore, John Batchelor
All in all, not bad. I read very little new information, though it was all relevant to my interests (more or less) and I was able to pick up on some bits of his information that were wrong or skewed. Largely, this man was studying the folklore of the Ainu in the late nineteenth century as a Christian missionary and probably the first Westerner to make an academic study of the people.
64. The End of the Century, Chris Roberson
In a word: awesome. I could nit-pick at bits and bobs, but I don't want to. Very well done. There are three main characters, all in different points in time (Galaad in 498, Sanford Blank in 1897, Alice Fell in 2000), all interconnected in various twisty, awesome ways. I didn't see the end coming. I REALLY didn't see the end coming. I usually don't like that sort of switching and I wasn't expecting much when I picked it up, but I would definitely recommend it now.
Which is good, since we leave for the honeymoon on the 23rd and won't have internet access for almost two full weeks. Who wants a postcard? And of where? (Your options: Rome, Italy; Izmir, Turkey; Athens, Mykonos, Santorini, Greece.) We still plan to check nothing on the plane (in either direction) and this is rapidly becoming less of a challenge than we thought.
63. The Ainu and Their Folk-Lore, John Batchelor
All in all, not bad. I read very little new information, though it was all relevant to my interests (more or less) and I was able to pick up on some bits of his information that were wrong or skewed. Largely, this man was studying the folklore of the Ainu in the late nineteenth century as a Christian missionary and probably the first Westerner to make an academic study of the people.
64. The End of the Century, Chris Roberson
In a word: awesome. I could nit-pick at bits and bobs, but I don't want to. Very well done. There are three main characters, all in different points in time (Galaad in 498, Sanford Blank in 1897, Alice Fell in 2000), all interconnected in various twisty, awesome ways. I didn't see the end coming. I REALLY didn't see the end coming. I usually don't like that sort of switching and I wasn't expecting much when I picked it up, but I would definitely recommend it now.