Yesterday I decided that on my lunch break I would walk down to the bookstore and have a light lunch. I had a coconut-lime-almond scone and a London Fog, which is something I have seen nowhere else but is earl grey tea steeped in steamed milk instead of hot water. It is quite good and remains the only way to get me to drink earl grey tea ( Read more... )

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It took me a couple of years, but I finally got around to picking up my own copies of Harry Potter ( Read more... )

I was poking through my book cupboard after putting away the last thing I've finished reading (Dune, which took far too long because I felt it necessary to stop in the middle and read twelve Terry Pratchet books first), and I was wondering what I was going to read next, and I was looking at my Asimov and thinking, hey, I picked up a copy of The ( Read more... )

Dave Duncan (who I've mentioned before) has a new book out! Mom picked it up in Kamloops, too, but I forgot to mention it.

And it's even a new series. The last series he was working on was the King's Blades stuff. I read the first two and lost interest. I liked the first book, but not so much the second. Still, it involved magical-stabbing- ( Read more... )

Erica gave me her Christmas present for me just today. She had it already, but had forgotten it at Dad's house, and never remembered that she had to give it to me until today.

Great big brand-new edition of the Chronicles of Narnia, all in one big book.

Now, of course I had all the books already, but The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and The ( Read more... )

This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club.

( Ganked meme. )