I picked up two non-fiction "research" books at the library today and I realize I probably should have only gotten one considering they're are written by the same author and I might have ended up not liking his style of writing. Plus...two thick books means it will take me a long time to read them. The first one, which I've started reading ( Read more... )

I've been semi-aware of all the closings in the ezine world in regards to speculative short story markets over the last year, but I guess I didn't really notice just how bad it was until I visited Ralan's today to get an idea of where to send a story I've dusted off. I ended up with a couple places....maybe a third, so I'm going to consider my ( Read more... )

Well, I've done pretty good lately at not buying new books and reading some of the ones I've had sitting around the house, but today I went looking for Brian Keene's new book Ghoul and my local independent had it sitting on the front table with the new paperbacks. Nice to see a horror book up there ( Read more... )

I bought my mom a copy of Stephen King's Cell for Christmas. She was a huge King fan for a while there, but as his books got less about the scary creatures and more about the psychologically messed up people she's not read him as much. I figured this one sounded more like his older stuff so she might like it ( Read more... )

Anyone else out there getting a bit tired of all the paranormal romances and urban fantasy books coming out every month in bulk amounts?

I mean, I like a good sexy vampire and/or dark hunky werewolf as much as the next woman, but when every other book faced out in the romance section features some sort of dark or otherworldly figure...enough is ( Read more... )

Yes, I know, I could be working on my NaNoWriMo project instead of writing this post. However, this is going to be short and brief since I want to go bury myself in a book to shut off all the lists running through my head of things I need to do tomorrow at work. *sigh ( Read more... )

Ah, the book store. The only place I could spend a whole paycheck and not feel guilty. Well, I would, but only after I'd read the books ( Read more... )

Just left about 10 yahoo groups where I was lurking (aka, ones I joined thinking I might find something interesting in them and then started deleting the digests sight unseen within a week or so) on. Then, turned around and joined a new one. *sigh ( Read more... )

I spent over two hours at the bookstore this morning and only walked out with one book. I'd originally went to check out the Aphrodisia books but I just couldn't talk myself into paying 13 dollars for one. I wonder if they plan on ever making those into mass market... I know I've seen a few Brava mass markets but that line is more romance than ( Read more... )

Work did not suck so much today. I felt semi-decent about what I managed to get done. My back isn't too happy about some of what I was doing though.

I've managed to update (on my part) the reading journal --> over here. Thankfully, sirenslair has been doing some reading and posting in my lull. I've been reading, just haven't been blogging about it. I ( Read more... )