Archive for the ‘fiction’ Category
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
You'd think having ample time to lay around doing nothing but recovering from some medical ick, I'd get a lot of reading done, but you'd be wrong. I have the attention span of cheese. A nice gouda, not a stinky, runny blue cheese or anything, but cheese nonetheless.
I did ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
It's been pointed out to me that I forgot to warn you there were spoilers in my review. Sorry about that.
For what it's worth, I think they're pretty mild and don't ruin the story, but just in case I've tucked them away in case you don't want to know.
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Used to be, when Husband was out all night working that DJ voodoo of his, I'd inevitably manage to scare the bejeezus out of myself with a horror movie. Not intentionally. I'd pick the dumbest looking, most innocuous movies I could find, but damn if they wouldn't turn out to ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
This week I've done actual reading of actual printed matter that's printed on actual paper. Damned exciting.
I finished Doug Preston's Tyrannosaurus Canyon, I've been carrying around for so long that I realized it should have racked up 10,000 frequent flyer miles of it's own, seeing as it went ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
I've had to set aside Mary Shelley's Frankenstein until I stop taking this cough medicine. It's scrambled my brains. No matter what I try to read I swear the words on the page keep turning to ancient Sumerian. Then I fall asleep. I'd like to read it again before I ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
I'd never heard of novelist Scott Smith until I saw the movie A Simple Plan. The film adaptation of Smith's debut novel was directed by Sam Raimi, but the screenplay was also written by Smith. I enjoyed his second novel, The Ruins, but somehow was oblivious of the movie, which ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
I just finished another of Jo Dereske's incredibly amusing murder mysteries from the Miss Zukas series. (aka the Library Murder Series).
I picked up a few of these once as a present for a friend of mine who'd just become a library director and somehow never managed to read these. The ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
I listened to the first hour of an audiobook of Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass yesterday on my flight to Florida. I have nothing erudite to say about it, it was just a harmless way to fill the time. And to distract me from the ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
As I mentioned ages ago, I picked up the first three volumes in Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse Mystery series. The first one was amusing, although a bit romance-y. The second one, also amusing, but even more romance-y. I liked the first 2 well enough to give the third one a ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
As I mentioned recently, I've been listening to the audiobook of Susanna Clark's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. It's an amusing comedy of manners wrapped up in an elaborate fantasy world, told as though it were a very obvious and straightforward history of England at the start of the Nineteenth ...
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