Dear History Channel,

I think you need a fact checker for the summaries of your programs On Demand, because I don't think this is accurate for the program titled 'Custer's Last Man: Little Big Horn':

One of the most important battles of the Civil War, the Battle of Little Big Horn was thought to have no survivors. New evidence suggests one soldier ( Read more... )

I know. Zombies are everywhere these days. It's hard to escape them. And if you're like me you have at least a tentative escape/survival plan in the the event of  The Zombie Apocalypse. Just in case. You never know.

I've never been a huge horror or zombie movie fan. Horror movies make me angry to watch, because it's like the characters have never ( Read more... )

This weekend I read Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal. It seriously hits almost all of my buttons for a good read. Except it was way too short. I kept trying to get myself to slow down so I could savor it more, but I couldn't put it down. Luckily, there is a sequel coming out, but unfortunately not until early 2012.

It's the story of ( Read more... )

First off before I get to the actual reason for this post. Can someone tell me why it is taking more than 2 weeks for me to get a book I ordered that shipped from 3 states away, but I can get a ring I ordered from China in slightly over a week? What the hell?! I need my reading material!

Now that's over with. This summer I having been devouring ( Read more... )

So I picked up Lois McMaster Bujold's Shards of Honor and Barrayar the other day due to io9.com's list of Science Fiction's 10 Most Epic Love Stories. Here's what they had to say about Cordelia and Aral:

It's a classic recasting of Jane Eyre, as Jurgen Wehrmann writes in the essay "Jane Eyre in Outer Space": Cordelia is a kick-ass commander of a ( Read more... )

I went to Barnes and Noble after work yesterday to buy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. They were sold out. Then I went to Books a Million. They were sold out. Unfortunately, those are the only two book stores around here. (How sad is that?) I went home and got online. Every online bookstore had a 1 to 2 week wait before it was shipped, which I  ( Read more... )

 I've been a bit MIA lately. It's been due to multiple things:

-My Virginia Neighbors are in town all this month and they've been inviting us over for a bit of wine and cheese or dinner at least two or three times a week. The month isn't even half over and I feel like I've been pickled in Chardonnay. With them it's like the never empty wine glass, ( Read more... )

* It's unseasonably warm here. Seriously, it's supposed to be 78 today. While it's never insanely cold and snow  flurries happen once every five years at the most, the warm weather is sucking out my holiday spirit. Plus, I'm really sick of wearing my summer clothes, but it's too warm to wear the fall/winter stuff and that's my favorite stuff. *sigh ( Read more... )

Anyone have any book recs?

I just finished the book I was reading at lunch and I have no idea of what I'm going to read next. The last couple of times of just wandering through the bookstore didn't produce anything decent.

I generally read scifi/fantasy or historical novels. I don't really like novels set in present day America, because, y'know, I ( Read more... )