Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
81. Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter.

82. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (Re-read). I can boil down my present thoughts on this book--which I loved as an adolescent and still love now--to two things. One, there sure are ( Read more... )

This post brought to you by the fact that I have been trying to read some epic fantasy lately. It hasn't gone well ( Read more... )

Some people react to the spouting of rules with a perverse desire to immediately break them. Hell, sometimes I am one of them. But I would like to propose two simple rules for novelists for all of you perverts to ignore ( Read more... )

This is why I hate New Year's: because it kind of feels like someone is standing at my elbow waiting to collect the last twelve months, glancing at their watch and tapping their foot, and I'm sitting here thinking "Hey! I'm still working on this, you fucker!" This is my life we're talking about, and I don't believe in stages or other arbitrary ( Read more... )

The Henry Louis Gates arrest:

Poll

1. George W. Bush. Occasionally, as this man worms his way out of office, I have irrational flashes of nostalgia for his slapstick leadership. Like, during the press conference this morning, when he made that little joke about the press "misunderestimating" him. Then I remember that he is not the governor on Benson or the mayor on Spin City, and ( Read more... )

I don't know if I'm squeamish or what, but there are two recent commercials in heavy rotation that I can't watch; I mean that I literally have to look away until they are over, or change the channel. The first is that AT&T commercial where the texting thumbs have FACES on them. Right, because the world would be better if our fingers were able to ( Read more... )

Critique by Dave

George:

You know I like these stories, and I was excited to read this. I've been hard on your last few submissions, but I was hoping this would be a return to form. I do think there's some good stuff in here--the action scenes, for the most part, are really well done--but in the end I had a lot of problems with it.

( I hate to say it, but you lost me right at the beginning. )

Dear Hallmark, Hershey's, FTD et al:

Why don't you just declare February "VALENTINE'S MONTH" and get it over with?

I hate your candy hearts,

Dave

For those who are not aware, here in the Northern Hemisphere, it is winter. I say this because it seems that many of you are NOT aware. Here in Minnesota it is a daily discovery for many, like sheep who are startled to see the sun rising in the morning, and astonished by all the green stuff in the fields.* "It's COLD out there!" people like to ( Read more... )