Summary of the last few days: Bleh.

Slightly longer summary: My body seems to be upset, but I can't tell if it's upset with me or upset with my medication. Left a message with the neurologist's voice mail, so hopefully I'll get some kind of clue tomorrow. As a result of the general oogieness, I barely managed to go anywhere until yesterday ( ( Read more... )

I am a liberal airhead! (Link via supergee, that whining rotter.)

For fans of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books: If you don't already know about the special preview, then you should go to that link now (link via lingmao_rss). I've never read any of the Dresden Files books--perhaps that should change sometime this year?

It's that LibraryThing list that's taking over! The general idea: This is the top [some vaguely interesting number] books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (when this list was made). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after ( Read more... )

The laws formulated in the Qu'ran sound ruthless to us today, but the Prophet himself was known to be lenient. One tradition recalls an occasion when Muhammad had passed sentence on a poor man who had committed a minor crime: for his penance he was told to give alms. The man replied that he had neither food nor goods to give away. Just at that ( Read more... )

Though I'm currently in a "Must read new stuff!!1!" phase, there are a bunch of books a little voice in the back of my mind keeps telling me I need to re-read within, oh, the next year or two. List (subject to change without notice) behind the cut.

( Book list )

Being very sleepy these days, I've been alternating between moments of amazing clarity and moments where my ability to be even remotely coherent leaves me altogether. Guess which kind of moment is more likely to happen when I'm sitting here in front of an "Update Journal" screen? Right, exactly. So I'll just take a moment to say that
James A. ( Read more... )

Frederica Mathewes-Green has a new book some of you might be interested in. Here's the text of the e-mail about it ( Read more... )

Sunday: For the first time in ages, I managed to get to a morning church service. For the first time in even longer ages, I attended a communion service. It was good to get there for a change, though I was pondering the religious symbolism when I accidentally spilled grape juice on my hand. Less energy than I'd had the previous day, so I only ( Read more... )

That SF/fantasy book list thing everybody else is doing.

"This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished, and put an asterisk* beside the ones you loved."

( How SF-literate am I? )

People become what they focus on ( Read more... )