This being the sixth year I’ve done this, a bit of bonus statistics:

Number of books read in… 2006: 41 ( Read more... )

Oh man. Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod. I RECOMMEND IT! It's a rare thing stumbling across a book of short stories by a Canadian author (especially a Giller short-listed one) that's not just tale after depressing tale of Bad Things Happening ( Read more... )

Because chlare just did one, and because maybe it won't be such a gong-show trying to pull this together at the end of the year if I break it up a bit, please allow me to present:

( A brief yammer about all the books I've read so far this year! )

SUNSHINE! It's finally stopped dumping snow on us! Quickly, quickly, it's time to sit outside reading all afternoon and sunburn our silly selves BRIGHT RED, ow ow ow...

Still blissing out over Sarah Monette's Corambis, torn between "OM NOM NOM, delicious plot, what happens next?" and "Nooo, must read slowly because it's the last of the series!" I ( Read more... )

Picked up change for an old lady at the grocery store when her wallet exploded and got called sweet. Instant karmic payoff: overhearing the cashiers (one male, one female) locked in a debate about whether Captain Jack or Ianto was cuter. And then got home to find a card from loves_bitch in my mailbox, with a proper wax seal on the envelope! <3 As the cool ( Read more... )

Say hello to mah leetle friend the new humour section editor for the faculty newspaper! I don't take over on my own until next fall, but this certainly ought to be an adventure ( Read more... )

ARGH, I hate being sick! *whine whine whine* I've reached that irritating stage where everything takes a Herculean effort, so I wind up laying in bed staring at the ceiling and croaking along with the radio. This will not do! (I actually dragged myself upright just now to accomplish the Very Important Task of looking up Fall Out Boy lyrics. Because ( Read more... )

The unexpected tribulations of being an Internet nerd... I was helping my mom at the animal shelter again, bright and early this morning. One of the volunteers from the other room ducked in, took a look around for something, and left.

Quoth my mom: "Hey! They stole my bucketAt which point I guffawed, was unable to explain why I found that ( Read more... )

What I Read in 2007

( Book List - 2007 )

Dear John Grisham,

To begin on a light note, if you insist on naming one of your characters 'Hamilton Jaynes', there is no possible way that I won't picture him as Adam Baldwin. Anyway...

( What's the opposite of a book rec? A book wreck, maybe? )