This is my New Year's post, and if you feel like mocking it since it's already the 12th of January, go right ahead. However, if you'd read the title of my journal you wouldn't have been surprised ( Read more... )

So, it's been awhile, and I've been buried. Let's start with GenCon. It was a blast! Blake and checkybart made very good traveling companions, even though I was a little worried about getting checkybart on the plane. He did very well-we all did when Frontier airlines taxed our patience to the limit by causing us to spend our entire first day of the convention in the ( Read more... )

So I have been pretty lax on the whole posting about books thing. But I have actually finished several since the end of school ( Read more... )

I'm finally getting caught up today, after spending most of the day on the couch ( Read more... )

With my elliptical machine ( Read more... )

Somewhere in the panic of the last week or so I finally managed to finish book #8-"The Killing Song" by Don Bassingthwaite, the 3rd book in the tiny-fonted D&D trilogy. Not bad, but should have ended about 3/4 of a book ago.

On to book #9...

"The Disappointment Artist", a collection of essays by Jonathan Lethem. I'm not sure what drew me to this book in the first place, and some of the essays were difficult to get through. But there are a few gems, most especially the ones detailing how he used various forms of pop culture to shield himself from his mother's death when he was a ( Read more... )

"The Grieving Tree" by Don Bassingthwaite, book #2 of the aforementioned tiny-fonted trilogy. Now I should be packing and getting ready for Estrella, especially as I've taken the day off to have time to do so in a leisurely fashion. However, although I'm sort of looking forward to the war, my motivation to actually prepare for it is at epically low ( Read more... )

"The Binding Stone" by Don Bassingthwaite, a toss-off nothing D&D adventure novel set in Eberron. Took me forever, but that's partially because of work, and the fact that the font in this book is freakishly small-it was 280 pages but in a normal font probably would have been 500. It was the first part of a trilogy, so hopefully I'll finish the next ( Read more... )

"Cocktails for Three" by Madeleine Wickham. Thank you, chick lit (and tasuskind).