I was really pleased to read Susie Bright's interview with Kate Bornstein about the book Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws. I was pointed to this by someone but I'm not sure who anymore ( Read more... )

When I read a book, I tend to get very involved in the book that I'm reading. Whatever the characters are, I get involved in an empathic way and the best books make me feel like I'm -in- the book. There have been some books where I've been sure that I saw the movie of the book or the events actually happened. After re-watching the first Dune ( Read more... )

A friend of cindygerb and mine told us that we have to read Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark. The summary from the back says:The Speed of Dark is a gripping exploration into the world of Lou Arrendale, an autistic man who is offered a chance to try an experimental "cure" for his condition. Now Lou must decide if he should submit to a surgery that may ( Read more... )

We had a power outage last night. According to the log files, it was between 3.50a and 9.30a. This was a time when it was a good thing that my jaw hurt and woke me up. I noticed that the clock wasn't on and figured out about the power outage. The winds were both strong and hungry last night. There were four large areas in King County without ( Read more... )

• My bus today had an advertisement that said that it has WiFi on the bus. That's really nifty as well as really odd. It's similar to the first time that I saw a 5-pack of writable DVDs in the checkout line at Fred Meyer's.
• I've noticed that at this time of the year, I read more mass-sized paperbacks than other times of the year. I've traced this ( Read more... )

I'm a little annoyed since work has decided that my journal is a "Game" website and blocks me from being able to see any comments on it. Grrfle. I can't make a business case for access to it, even if the access might account for only about fifteen to twenty minutes out of my day.

Also, I lent the New Hugo Winners to argona_delvano when she asked for it. She ( Read more... )

So, I was just able to set the new bookcases that we got from Ikea. No more books on the floor hopefully. Well, at least for now.

Here's a couple things that I wanted to post about but didn't get around to for separate entries:

As part of the gift exchange sponsored by featherynscale, lexpendragon got me some blue/purple thermographic Smart Putty. I already tried putting it into the freezer but it didn't change color from room temp. It tells me that my hands are warm though. His present also ( Read more... )

I'm catching up on reading all the Short Story and Novella Hugo Award winners. Earlier today, I read Press Enter ▊ by John Varley. All of John Varley's stuff is good and all of it is a bit off. His stuff has affected me oddly before. Unfortunately, this time, how it is affecting me is not letting me sleep. The entire story is disturbing but it ( Read more... )

Books Read in 2006

1. 3 Jan - Isaac Asimov; The New Hugo Winners
2. 5 Jan - Eric Flint; 1632
3. 7 Jan - Elizabeth Moon; Rules of Engagement
4. 11 Jan - Jack Dann; The Man Who Melted
5. 20 Jan - Eric Flint & David Weber; 1633