His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik ( Read more... )

Well, I certainly picked up the pace there! Books 14-17 were the four in the Sharing Knife series (Beguilement, Legacy, Passage, Horizon) by Lois McMaster Bujold. SO GOOD. I'm hoping so hard that she writes more. (There's room for more! Honest, there is ( Read more... )

Book 11 of 2012: A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge (reread).
Book 12 of 2012: The Children of the Sky, by Vernor Vinge ( Read more... )

Book 9 of 2012: Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes ( Read more... )

Book 8 of 2012: The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel by Stephen king.

I loved this book so much. So very much. King is such a good storyteller, and a story is exactly what this book was...

( Minor minor spoilers back here. )

Today is National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day! If for some reason you miss eating peanut butter today, don't forget that National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day is coming up on April 2nd!

Book 5 of 2012: Marque and Reprisal by Elizabeth Moon, book two in what turns out to not be a trilogy...

( Pigs-- Er, People...In...SPACE! (No spoilers) )

Old computer is still chugging away, running perfect. I've been camping my door all morning waiting for the UPS man to bring the new one. Wish he'd hurry up!

Happy birthday, fealubryne! To echo firebyrd, you sure are getting old! ;) All the <3s to you! I hope you have a great birthday ( Read more... )

Being only 19 days into the year, finishing my third book might sound impressive. (Or might not, depending on how much free time you have in your life for reading.) Unfortunately it sounds more accomplished than it is. Book #1 I read most of in 2011, just finished in 2012. Book #2 was that horrible Thrall self-published book, which I deleted off ( Read more... )

Sorry for two posts in one day, but this annoys the heck out of me. I started the year's second book, and it's BAD. I mean bad-bad. Self-published bad. The first paragraph:

"By the gods, pull the damn sword out," the man on the floor howled out into the tavern. Although down the bar, Glorias' ears heard him well enough. The aged warrior looked ( Read more... )

I decided to make spaghetti sauce this weekend. It's one of the few (only?) things I can cook that come out great every time, but the problem is that eating a lot of tomato-based stuff gives me horrible heartburn, so I try to resist making it ( Read more... )