--I'm clinging to the idea that it's still summer--and the predicted highs between today and Thursday (27°-29°C) help a lot with that!--but there's been a chill nipping at me while I worked on falling asleep for the last couple of nights. The time of going to bed in tank tops (or at least the time of doing so without tossing a t-shirt near the bed ( Read more... )

Having all the books in a series match on your bookshelf is a lovely thing. Not always possible, obviously, especially if you start buying a series when part of it is out in mass market and then future books come out in hardcover and you really want to buy them ASAP. (Relevant only if you prefer paperbacks, as I do.) There are marketing decisions ( Read more... )

Note: I don't often wind up posting about media I didn't like, because it's so much nicer to post about happy things, and so I sat on this post for a couple of days before deciding to go ahead. It's not as simple as "didn't like"; if that were the case, I wouldn't still be seething over how the series was ultimately handled. But if you're a fan of ( Read more... )

These days I get so little reading done that I never get to play with this meme, but since I have actual answers right now, this week I can!

What are you currently reading?

I'm rereading L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle for the first time in many, many years. It's my second-favorite Montgomery, after Jane of Lantern Hill. I read The Blue Castle ( Read more... )

It's warm and sunny, and it doesn't matter that I'm not outside. Even just seeing the sun through the window is making me so happy. Also, my entire house is permeated with the smell of strawberries in balsamic, because
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While waiting for my copy of Midnight Blue-Light Special to arrive (and why the hell is it taking so long? ;_; It got mailed a week ago!), I caught up with what feels like half of my flist and finally read Code Name Verity. I swear it's a coincidence that I read it while waiting on Verity Price, but it's an amusing one ( Read more... )

Fine, October. We've turned the heat on. *shivers ( Read more... )

It's been a busy few days, mostly involving going out and seeing friends who collectively kept me from thinking too much about the Tokyopop situation. And now suddenly it's the week before Easter, which means seeing
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Today's excitement was getting together with liannesentar and having supper and talking shop. *^^* People, I'm a freelancer who (usually) lives on the east coast of Canada. Such things do not happen every day. It also helps that she's great fun! We managed to cover work, fandom, manga trends (which could fall under "work", I know. I love my job), politics, ( Read more... )

Gah! I went to my library's site to request Small Gods, since both
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