Holy wow, that was a weird finger-stick ( Read more... )

Oh, and I gave blood on Friday. That happened.

Mary Roach, Stiff. I expected to be a bit not the target audience for this book, which I was. I could have read more cultural and historical chapters easily.

Ari Marmell, Covenant’s End. Wow, it is weird to read something so dark and so middle-grade. I’m not sure what makes it middle-grade in ( Read more... )

1) Gave blood twice in April. The second time went better than the first-- the stick was great, painless, the phlebotomist understood how to keep me warm, I did a triple ( Read more... )

but happy Pi Day.

Given how everyone has complained about the weather... well, everyone but me. We had lots of clear-and-cold days, which are my favorite winter days (perhaps tied with 'blizzard' but that has its own issues, really). I like sun and weather events. I kept telling people who wanted it to warm up that that wasn't available. It's February, I said, ( Read more... )

Robin McKinley, Chalice. This is the recent McKinley I’ve liked best. It has the rambly narrator, but the rambles are interesting and generally not in the middle of conversations. It has the inexplicable ending, but it makes sense the second or third time around. It has the ending where everyone stands around and/or leaves without speaking ( Read more... )

Anyone who's gotten two letters from me recently knows there's been a lot of stress going on, not always but sometimes directly mine, sometimes belonging to someone else, and you know, people who read this and have been on the Holy Shit That Sucks list, I am not out of support to give and I'm glad things are getting better for you. Because damn ( Read more... )

Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion. A reread, and then a selective good-parts reread (they’re the same parts I reread the first time I read the book). I just want to snuggle with this book and somehow become as good as the characters are.

Sarah Rees Brennan, Unmade. Last in a trilogy, and... yup, definitely a trilogy. No way to pick ( Read more... )

1) Patina adores me. She is sitting at my right hand as I type this, and if I lean forward just right, she'll lick and lick and lick my ear. I feel so loved ( Read more... )

I brought a lot of books home to read over break, then spent my time knitting, on the computer, or eating cookies standing in front of the fire. Some of them were recommendations for the boy, though.

Erin E Moulton, Chasing the Milky Way. Too many bounces at the end, a little too... I don’t know, the end just didn’t work for me. The rest is ( Read more... )