Borders, which entered bankruptcy protection earlier this year, has announced, at the age of 40, that it's going out of business. I knew Borders back when it was a single store in Ann Arbor, only 8 years old. Then it grew to be nationwide. I rejoiced in being able to attend a concert in Dallas in 1993 at the Borders there, and feel at home. And ( Read more... )

Books finished in May ( Read more... )

Book finished in April

The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff. (Started in January 2011.) Delightful. I'd listened to her reading some of this at WorldCon in Denver, and I was hooked then. (At the computer in Chickens book... finished it at FCN, after hyping it to many attendees who asked me about my book.)

Books Finished in February 2011: None ( Read more... )

I haven't been reading enough to talk about it, really, but maybe it's time to start trying ( Read more... )

I think I gushed a bit ago, when I read _Rosemary and Rue_ by Seanan McguireI might have mentioned how I got through the first 80% of it on a day when my computer was misbehaving, and I needed to sit there and hit buttons whenever it returned with a question. I might have mentioned that despite being always-tired, a few days later I couldn't take ( Read more... )

Ok, I've been tagged

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Put a # by those you've started but not finished.
5) Tally your total at the bottom.

( Books I've read, etc. )

The books are lagging. I've still only finished the one that the spouse & I read to each other while exercising before the deployment. (Strange Robby) Working on others, but I've yet to complete any of them ( Read more... )