About the Shortest Distance one... I checked the link three times and it works ( Read more... )

Strange how well the archives for this series hold up. There's a lot of good fic, but as usual, I'll select stuff I want to pass on. Spoilers in the fics, but if you do or don't care, I'm pretty sure the warnings are in the fics themselves ( Read more... )

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Keep in mind, like many that I post up, are old and dredged up who-knows-how ( Read more... )

http://naruto.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600102093Read more... )

So far, only this ( Read more... )

The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz

Long and short -- I didn't like the book. The one listed by Ben Hills on wiki looks better -- maybe I'll check it out. I'd heard of the case brought up in my Japanese linguistics class, interestingly enough, in like the first or second year at UH.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See ( Read more... )

Went to Borders. Didn't get to stay very long, so we'll probably go back tomorrow or the day after... (if the latter, it means I have to find my own time to camp there) I was trying to absorb the second half of The Omnivore's Dilemma when I got too hungry to be able to read very well. (Not possible if you're at home, but...) I'll be trying to read ( Read more... )

Fiction first. Everything after the first is non-fiction ( Read more... )

Instead of my usual (if it can be called that) copy-paste thing, I'll have to just leave it with my own descriptions, as some of the summaries themselves are spoilers for various games. I still say it's worth losing sleep over. Oh, and I /finally/ finished off the fifth game ( Read more... )