Two half-baked book reviews kick off my 2010 reading, but they might be the last until mid-April. I signed up for an online distance course in heritage resource management and it seems to be more intense than I'd anticipated. There'll be theory. And my classmates seem to be smartAh well - I'm looking forward to it, even if I'm dreading the work. I' ( Read more... )

Nano is an almost-fail. I'm stuck at 18,000 words, but that's the most I've ever written and I'd like to finish the story. It needs some serious work to even share with friends, but it's a something. A start. And I'd like to not break a promise to myself.

A Stop on the Road came back with a rejection, but out of 6 editors I had 2 yesses, 3 nos, ( Read more... )

I just started reading Twilight.

I know. I know. Let's call it research. Halloween research.

And for all my researchliness, I have no idea what the book is about. Bella is an annoying self-centred martyr of a girl who is all WAH I BE POPULAR AND CLUMSY AND SELF CENTRED and Edward has no personality beyond OMG BELLA I IS DANGER, and there's ( Read more... )

Four half-baked book reviews, most of them in my favourite crack-genre: urban paranormal fantasies/mysteries. Guess I should update this more often - I think I'm missing some.

The heat register also just kicked in. I Do Not Approve. :/ But at least my house if full of potatoes.

Half-baked book reviews: ( Underground by Kat Richardson )

Half-baked book reviews behind the cut - ( The Element of Fire and The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl )

Half-baked book reviews: ( The Manual of Detection )

Half-baked ( The Graveyard Book )

Half-baked book reviews: ( Beyond Heaving Bosoms, Pandora's Daughter, Blue Diablo )

Half-baked book review: ( Tropic of Night )

The bad-luck monkey bit me again! ...and this time, my poor Buck the Buick bit the bucket. The potholes shook loose rust that was holding together the car's frame, and it's just about done for. I can drive it for a little while, but... she's dead, Jim.

I'm so claiming money for this. The city's negligence with the pothole thing wrecked my car. And ( Read more... )