Meme ganked from sanguinity

The books I'm reading: Only one on the go. Alfred Bester's Hugo Award winning "The Demolished Man". Not enjoying it as much as I had hoped. I love "The Stars My Destination", this one less so.

The books I'm writing: Back working on my long suffering YA novel about a young girl who ends up being recruited as Guardian Angel ( Read more... )

I got my most recent Entertainment Weekly in the mail. (Yes, its a guilty pleasure of mine!)

Interesting blurb on two Jane Austen / Zombie mashups in the works.

One is called Pride and Predator "a traditional contume-drama retelling of Jane Austen's beloved novel that will morph into a horror film when an alien starts butchering veddy proper cast ( Read more... )

Apparently the Beeb reckons most people will only have read 6 of these books...

Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started, but didn't finish

( Book Meme Behind the Cut )

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I've been enjoying my days off. Puttering away at a few household projects, a few personal projects, and gearing up for another Summer Movie Pool. I was BBQing for mother's day this afternoon and while I was outside enjoying the weather, I was looking for a book to browse. I was reading a dog-eared beat up copy of a Philip K. Dick shorty story ( Read more... )

I finished reading Kurt Vonnegut's Deadeye Dick a couple of days ago and musing about some of his autobiographical references he weaved through out his story ( Read more... )

lackofendorphin asked for suggestions of a PKD novel to read as introduction to PKD. I was going to respond to his comment in my other post, but after taking 15 minutes to type it up, though maybe I would make a separate post in case anyone else was interested in reading it ( Read more... )

I am giddy with excitement - I saw a movie and finished a book yesterday. That on top of working a 10hr shift.

As sort of an informal tradition when I was living in the Toronto area, przed, captfuzz and various friends and I would often take in a movie on New Years Day. Provided you are not too hungover from the night before, its a prefect low key way to ring ( Read more... )

It's much more fun to judge them by their titles instead.

I just came across this amusing story online.

How Green Were the Nazis? and Proceedings of the 18th International Seaweed Symposium are among the competitors vying for top prize in an annual contest for the oddest book title ( Read more... )

Is it possible that it's been three days since I updated? I swear I have been on here every day since then commenting and reading, but I guess I just never felt like I had the time to update ( Read more... )