You know what's kind of neat about no longer having cable TV? I can actually do this meme! I think I've read more books since I moved than I did all last year.

Currently reading Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold. Not as good as other Vorkosiverse books, but definitely entertaining. It's nice to see Ivan's POV ( Read more... )

Inspired by a rant that came over me while commenting in beth_bernobich's blog ( Read more... )

Useless post about what I'm reading. Useless because, hello, I am a very slow reader. Also, I admit that the primary time I get to read books is in the bathroom.

Currently making my way through Pale Demon by Kim Harrison. Yes, I am totally anti-thisgenre, but I have two exceptions and Kim Harrison is one of them. (Harry Connolly is the other ( Read more... )

Author has provided charts in the form of taking a screenshot of their desktop with the chart open in Excel.

Really, author? Really?

To answer oracne's query from a couple of posts ago: I bought the new color omnibus of Girl Genius; and then based on recommendations, I decided to give Amanda Downum a try with The Drowning City. While I was in a buying mood, I also ordered the most recent Kim Harrison paperback.

I'm so pleased that Girl Genius is now available in a reasonably-priced ( Read more... )

I am ordering books online and I need 1 more to make my minimum and avoid shipping charges. Please recommend something ( Read more... )

First, the standard "read what I actually wrote, not the imaginary thing you think I said" disclaimer: I like ebooks. I own a Nook and am very happy with it ( Read more... )

Some months ago I went off on a rant about people who say "McCaffrey sucks" as if it's some sort of universal truth anyone with a brain would agree with.

I have a lot I could say about what I enjoyed in McCaffrey's books, particularly the stuff she wrote when she was at the top of her game. (I would say the first half-dozen books set on Pern, and ( Read more... )

sleigh briefly delineates what a good year GRRM is having.

Five years ago when A Feast for Crows came out, I was still working for a large NY Publisher (but not the publisher of the series). I happened to be at a big meeting with the VPs of sales and marketing where they talked about what was going on in the market. They had looked at the NYTimes ( Read more... )

Article in the WSJ that started the kerfuffle, found via sartorias and burger_eater.

The tl;dr summary: Oh woe, books aimed at teens these days are full of horrific violence, darkness, and human spiritual ugliness.(I'll give credit to Meghan Gurdon, the article-writer, for focusing on the violence rather than the sex. It's always rather bothered me that people will ( Read more... )