I've enjoyed keeping track of my reading list here, and it encourages me to read more, which is vital for brain maintenance. The theme of the past several weeks has been YA novels, which have the benefit of being quick easy pulp that I can read in an evening after work without sacrificing too much of my productive time, as well as being an easy way ( Read more... )

Apologies for the recent downer posts and lack of replies to most things. I suspect that, given my first real break in months, all my stress and exhaustion finally caught up with me. But I've been chugging books and tea and will be back at full whenever my cat recovers from whatever illness he's picked up ( Read more... )

This has been a crappy week. Who desires to dance to 80s music Saturday night? Further questions include: Does anyone want to go to a mall or other shopping center Friday evening for books or clothing (potentially for the 80s dancing) or, hell, pedicures? This would apparently need to happen either early in the evening or relatively late in the ( Read more... )

a.k.a. Bear in mind, I'm not immortal.

Spleen is an amusing word. In any case, all of you should read The Club Dumas.  Or you should if you happen to like Hugo, Dumas, Doyle, any of that sort of literature, the history of that period, or simply self-referential mystery books with cunning and particularly unheroic heroes.  I keep mistakenly picking ( Read more... )

    Thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday throughout the day.  It was quite kind of you, and it seems to have worked well.  My day (starting at midnight, not the time I was born) was wonderful.  At midnight I got a phone call, a happy birthday song, and four hours of fun and interesting conversation.  Then I slept for six or seven ( Read more... )

            I think the busier I get the more often I update my journal.  But I have good reason to today, I had a fun dream.  Also, it occurs to me that I’ve loaned various books out to people.  If anyone remembers borrowing a book from me, could you try to get it back to me before either of us leave campus? I’ll be around until Saturday.  (I can’ ( Read more... )

            White Knight is out! White Knight is out White Knight is out White Knight is out! Okay, who knows the closest chain bookstore to Brandeis? I need to go there. ASAP. Screw 10 page papers and finals, I must read Dresden. It will be Thomas-centric! I love Thomas! <.< >.> Must get book. Order over Amazon? I could get it here by Wednesday if ( Read more... )

            If, the next time you visit your local bookstore or library, you pass by the magazines and the fiction section and all the self help books and move straight on to the back, you will eventually find yourself surrounded on all sides by shelves labeled “Fantasy.”  A closer examination will reveal books nestled together in cozy and slightly ( Read more... )