As only a ten-question quiz can do, it has summarized my life down to the last string of vestigal DNA. I feel complete and without any more purpose. What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Dedicated Reader You are always trying to find the time to get back to your book. You are convinced …
Category Archives: Books
My oh My. Tolkien is Spinning at 400 RPM…
Without a doubt, the Lord of the Rings will not stop being reinterpreted until some post-modern deconstructionist proves that it never existed in the first place. Next it will be in Mime.
Dragon*Con Review: Miscellaneous
Part V of an n part series. See here, here, here, and here for others. Lots of stuff, I’m telling you TONS of stuff, goes on at Dragon*Con. You can party almost 24 hours a day on the planned activities alone! If you happen to be bringing friends (or meet new ones) you can fill …
Dragon*Con Review: Jim Butcher
I felt that having a humongous post about everything that went on at Dragon*Con would be a bit absurd. Here is installment III of the post. Jim Butcher is the author of the Dresden Files. He attended Dragon*Con this year and was seen by me in the Gothic Shadows programming track. He was on a …
Dragon*Con 2006
Wahhhhhh!!!!!! As you may notice from the categories tags, Dragon*Con was a multi-threaded, awesomely spectacular, ravingly cool, devastatingly delicious weekend. There’s so much to talk about, I’m not sure where to start. This will probably end up being a multiple posting. I’ll start by saying, I bought a new camera the week before Dragon*Con, and …
Lying down, Reading books…
With respect to the fact that I can injure myself by sitting on the couch, I’ve spent a good deal of the last two days lying on the selfsame evil couch reading books and watching TV. World Cup soccer and Welcome to Mooseport are both excellent time sinks. The majority of the time has been …
Two (at least) Harry Potter Characters Die
According to the canonical source, Ms. J. K. Rowling, author of the series, Harry Potter and the *, two characters (at least) will croak in the seventh and final book. From an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution: During an interview broadcast Monday on Britain’s Channel Four, Rowling revealed that at least two characters will …
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American Gods
I finished American Gods, yesterday. It was pretty good, although it made me wish I was more familiar with Norse, Native American, Indian, Irish, French, German, etc., mythology before I read the book. Quick synopsis: Immigrants brought with them their Gods. America is not a good place for Gods. Gods need to do something to …
Shameless Mercantilism? Or Laziness?
The astute among you (or the not-so-blind) will notice the Amazon Links on the sidebar of the blog. Don’t get all huffy! I don’t expect to make any money with this thing. I’ve let my book list die over the last year or so, and have recently decided it needs to make some sort of …
Googledemort?
Performing my duty as the NY Times’ bitch, I mention this story (which you probably won’t be able to access after today) wherein they speak of a new data center that Google is building in Oregon. The fact that Google is behind the data center, referred to locally as Project 02, has been reported in …