( Nothing except spoilers, spoilers, spoilers!! )

... as in the book in the foreground of this 'sit and drink' picture:


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To take a break from mainlining all the other books from the author of Urquhart's canon, I'm reading something intellectually interesting a non-fiction book, for a change: Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 'The Black Swan', newly published 2nd edition.

This quote made me laugh out loud in the train today:

You can afford to be compassionate, lax and ( Read more... )

It's fun to sit at my computer with enough coffee to fuel my brain, the cats curled up and sleeping right beside me, and write a 4,800 word light essay-let about bodice rippers that I will actually be paid good money for. I didn't know I know so much about romance novels, but between being in a game founded by a professional romance writer as a ( Read more... )

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It doesn't friggin' stop! My Alice woes are now in their second week ( Read more... )

Here are the rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

1. Winnie The Pooh -- A.A. Milne
2. The Hobbit -- J.R.R. Tolkien
3. A Struggle For Rome -- ( Read more... )

( Confessing embarrassing things )

I was complaining about the last quarter of 'Narcissus in Chains', to burning_bryght, when I was suddenly struck by this momentous insight...

**grins evilly**

Anita Blake sucks Venetian canal water! She's got the combination of whinginess and entitlement, snotty arrogance and demands to be made to feel good, that I especially hate in certain of my colleagues from the sales department ( Read more... )