(The subject line is a near perfect match to the sub-title of one of seachanges's journals...but it also 100% and elegantly captures what this post is about, so...I can't entirely apologize for appropriating it in this case :).

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Last week, I stumbled, as I frequently do, on a news tidbit, this time in the San Jose Mercury, that a company called David's ( Read more... )

I realized this week I probably ought to share this with everyone and not just who I remember directly to mention it to...

The Legend of Drizzt: The Collected Stories by R.A. Salvatore is available for a limited time for FREE from Audible. Since Audible is linked to Amazon, if you log in to Amazon and go to that link you can 'purchase' it from the ( Read more... )

I want to say it was mizkit who was talking about reading (?) the L. Frank Baum Oz books for some definition of 'recently', but in case it wasn't her (or for general consumption)...

http://mrswizard.blogspot.com/2013/06/amazon-amazing.html

tl;dr: Oz: The Complete Collection (All 14 Oz Books, with Illustrated Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Exclusive Bonus ( Read more... )

Man, I had three things, but then I forgot one of them haha.

1. I made a thing last week, thanks to a tweet by someone I follow on Twitter:

Butter chicken pizza

( Not a recipe, more a guildeline )

- A few weeks ago I managed to snag Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued (Volume 1) for free on the Kindle (as of this writing, it is still listing as free, soooo....), and I decided to pick it up this weekend to read.

[Spoilers around the edges review]It reads like someone's fanfic, but because, hey, it's JANE AUSTEN, it's okay to publish, right? : ( Read more... )

I checked out Frozen Heat (book four of the Richard Castle 'Nikki Heat' series) from the library just before I went to PAX East and even took it with me as an option, but I didn't crack it open until last week, just after I got back.

So it was a little freaky weird to read a part yesterday where Rook and Nikki stayed at The Lenox Hotel in Boston, ( Read more... )

I think it was tavella who asked me about them, but here they are if anyone else wants them; I had other people point them out to me:

fkbooksandtips - Free Kindle Books and Tips ( Read more... )

Prompted by a conversation going on elsewhere on the final book in the Wheel of Time series, A Memory of Light, prompted me to check on the status of my library holds (of which this book is one of them)...and I noticed a potential problem brewing.

This is my current list of holds at my local library.


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"I've been verrrrrrrrry patient." (cookies if you get the reference) about opening the box I was pretty sure was a new Kindle (from my father), but I finally cracked into it yesterday morning ( Read more... )

- One day I will learn how to make fried chicken that is both done and not cajun browned. I'm sure it has to do with the temperature of the oil I'm using. I really need to make a point to use my electric skillet next time so I can control that ( Read more... )