Because the tie-in books come in threes, I like to sort them in reading order from what I think will be the weakest to the one I'm most anxious to read, so that I will hopefully start at the bottom and end on the top.

I started the latest Torchwood trilogy with Something in the Water, and either I've mis-sorted, or this set is particularly strong ( Read more... )

I'm reading the Pamela Aidan trilogy that is supposed to be Mr. Darcy's side of Pride and Prejudice. The first book, An Assembly Such as This, was fun and well done ( Read more... )

I'm out of my cotton-pickin' *mind* to do a non-episode Who post on episode night (sorry, Who_Daily!) But I just finished The Last Dodo and I have just got to do some serious squeeing. Besides, if I don't get the 17 bookmarks out of it, the spine may crack by morning ( Read more... )

Like I was really going to wait until Sunday to start reading the new Who novels!

Finished Wooden Heart last night. It rates a solid "meh." I kept waiting for the plot to pull together, which it doesn't, but it's not as curl-up-in-pain-fully bad as, say Resurrection Casket. I wasn't expecting much out of it, to tell the truth, and that's what ( Read more... )

I originally started this post with a little demure "this is for the fanficcers, I wouldn't presume to tell the pros how to write" but y'know what? A great reference book is a great reference book and I'm not good at being demure anyway. Do media-oriented writing? Run thou out right now and purchase Alex Epstein's Crafty TV Writing: Thinking ( Read more... )

Yarn Harlot - The Secret Life of a Knitter by Stephanie Pearl McPhee

I got this because it was 3-for-2 at Borders looked cute, and indeed it is. This collection of crafting anecdotes will sound familiar to anyone who's passionate about their hobby - the problems of storing the stash, the inability to find anything to use no matter how big that ( Read more... )

Every now and then, you find it - that one in a million gloriously fluffy piece of silliness that works on all levels. Such is The Stand In by Kate Clemens ( Read more... )

Spent some time doing non-review reading while beached on the couch.

Father Knows Best: Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives (Paperback) by Lakoff ( Read more... )

Well, this was inevitable. One of the books I tossed in the TBR purge got fished back out now that the numbers are down - and I've fallen fanatically for it.

Fables is a serial graphic soap opera about the refugee characters from children's stories. Run out of their land by an anti-magic conquerer known as The Adversary, the survivors escaped ( Read more... )

You can tell the big proposal's over - I'm posting multiple times!

From twistedchick a couple of links. For those pissed at the White House, a series of icons. And it's not all Lord of the Flies - when faced with the collapse of modern civilization, one group banded together and created a functional hunter/gather tribe.I came away from Bouchercon with nigh ( Read more... )