Just thought I'd stop in to wish a happy Lughnassadh to those who celebrate it ( Read more... )

Happy Midsummer/Litha to those who celebrate it!

I've lived like a hermit for much of the last week, which I think I needed. I'm about one-third through the a revision of what looks to be a complete second novel, but other than that and work, I've had a lazy week.

I am quite proud of this, though. That resolution was my idea. montrealais encouraged me to ( Read more... )

So I just read American Gods, being the last geek in the world not to have read it ( Read more... )

I thought I'd pop in to wish a Happy Beltane to those who celebrate it.

Appropriately, I'm nearly finished Drawing Down the Moon, which has been for decades the one book a person should read if they want to have a general overview of Neo-Paganism. The first edition was published in the 1970s, the edition I read is from 1986, and I'm actually ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd stop in to wish a happy Ostara to all who celebrate it, and a happy first day of Spring to those who don't ( Read more... )

I finished Apuleius's The Golden Ass just now on my lunch break at work -- now increasingly translated as Metamorphosis perhaps to avoid the misconception that it's ancient Roman porn. Of course, with Metamorphosis for a title, it could easily be confused with Franz Kafka, or with Ovid (who actually was writing ancient Roman porn ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd stop in to wish everyone a Happy Imbolc who celebrates it :)

So I finally finished The Dark is Rising series, one of those Harry Potter precursors that have been returning to the limelight in the reflected glory of its famous progeny.

(I read one book of it when I was a kid, and enjoyed that. My sister and infinitecomplex got me the whole series for my birthday ( Read more... )

Happy Festival-of-Helios-meets-Saturnalia-meets-Germanic-Solstice-meets-observed-birthday-of-first-century-rabbi-Yoshua-bar-Yoseph. Hope the household nisse brought everyone lots of gifts ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd wish everyone a Happy Yule ( Read more... )