First, a little book tourism: I have new travel ambitions. Portugal. Buenos Aires. And Los Angeles. I've been talking with my friends about where we've gone to ebooks and where we haven't, the loss of the social aspect of reading (I hate it when I go to the Silent Reading Party and I can't tell what anyone else is reading because they have an ( Read more... )

Four book reviews here. There are spoilers under the cut for my review of "Gladiatrix", which I hated. But I couldn't explain *why* I hated it without getting into its various failures, and that gives away (angrymaking, possible trauma-survivor-problematic) plot points. So if you care in future about reading a really awful book without spoilers ( Read more... )