Despite the title and the cover, Blow Me Down is now my favorite Katie Mac book ever.

In a "yeah, never gonna happen" wish fulfillment kind of way.

Last night was the last "stop" on Jim Butcher's Changes book tour. (I put quotes around stop because technically he's already home and was signing at one of his local Borders stores.) Jim worked the Q&A last night probably about like he felt--a little tired, and a little anxious to get it over. He had ready answers for the questions he'd been asked ( Read more... )

Katie,

I love you and your writing. I really do. But I can't help but be more than a little disappointed when the steampunk book spends the first 1/3 going: Oooh! This is a steampunk story! See all the steampunk stuff? And look! Here's a real steampunk airship! And everything runs on steam! Aha! And there's a really cool alternate history, too! ( Read more... )

Please don't make me wait long to talk about Changes, guys. The majority of the book follows his usual narrative formula, and 8/10 of my predictions were right (the other two still may happen), but the ending is completely unpredictable. No, seriously.

( Spoilers Ahoy! Don't click unless you want serious spoilage )

I'll try to update periodically about my adventures in working out while not having enough asthma medication, trying to eat a decent healthy diet with too many food allergies, and generally having a lack of motivation.

If anyone is interested in a workout support group, let me know and I'll add you to the filter.

I'm hoping to go to Florida this summer, and I've decided that if I'm going, I don't want to be embarrassed about wearing a swimsuit and showing off my cottage cheese thighs and tummy bulges. This, of course, means that I need to lean out completely--something that I haven't been able to do in the past despite having done one round of P90X and two ( Read more... )

Today was stake conference, and I always worry when an organization condones speakers who, without even a trace of irony and in complete earnestness, talk about the Internet being the same thing as the game of pool in The Music Man and then proceeds to speak about how the Internet and cable TV are evils that need to be ousted from our homes.

And Conan the Barbarian would totally beat out Harry Dresden.

I just finished reading White Night, and kudos to Jim Butcher for only dropping teeny tiny hints in each of his books, but I think I have a pretty good idea about who and what's involved behind everything that's been happening in the series, and some of the reasons why. I just hate that the explanation kinda leans really close to ye olde prophesy ( Read more... )

Ever walk into a house and it smells like the best pasta in the world?

Yeah. My mother was baking lasagna when I walked in tonight, and I swear my stomach wanted to crawl out my throat, drag itself over to the oven and start some heavy snogging.

Sometimes being gluten-free sucks.