Heck of a week since I last posted, lots of highs and lows on the personal front with the lowest hitting yesterday when Melissa sprained her knee at work. At least, that's the current diagnosis. She goes back to urgent care Thursday afternoon for a followup. She's my trooper, though. While she's in pain, she's also a strong woman, which is one of ( Read more... )

Second day in a row. I'm the last one in the house to get hit by this particular bug, but I'm catching up to Melissa where it concerns coughing and a runny nose.

The only good point is I've got the start to the second chapter. It's an important one, as it establishes the SF and supernatural foundation that will let Sacrifices make sense. Not real ( Read more... )

An exchange I had with eeknight recently about a London Times article made me realize that The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney is one of those universal us-them stories ( Read more... )

markdf pointed out an article on Atlantic.com.I hear talk about classics. Works by Dickens, Clemens, Bronte, Melville. And I hear talk about works that are "current" -- i.e., works written since the turn of the century. There are enough LJ posts in the book challenges I can pick and choose something that isn't genre fiction, branching out from our little ( Read more... )