I read a book in 12 hours yesterday, on top of the couple hours at the Taste with family.

I don't do this often, and forgive the l33t, but:

OMGZ!  David Gemmell - Lord of the Silver Bow - yay!

If you ask me, I think I almost cried when two of the characters bit it.  And that has not happened since high school, really.  It was that great kind intense ( Read more... )

As much as a pretty cover can enchant me into at least reading the back of a book, if the words "nibbing" or "drubbing" appear in the from-the-book quote, I immediately put it back. I just realized while reading a blurb on amazon.com that I am repulsed by huge words even a person of hefty English education cannot understand, but I am even more put ( Read more... )