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This was a big year for me. I turned 30, completed Project 365, took (and passed with distinction) my comprehensive exams for my Ph.D., wrote my dissertation prospectus (and had it approved), was awarded two dissertation fellowships (one for fall 2009 and one for spring 2010), had a journal article accepted for publication, got engaged, moved in ( Read more... )

Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones is a book I picked up simply out of morbid curiousity. I was certain it was going to suck and I could then rip it to shreds. I have to admit, however, that though it was not a good book by any means, it didn't suck as badly as I expected ( Read more... )

I wanted to like New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow, edited by Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman. It's a collection of a bunch of science fiction stories by women that I haven't already read in every other such anthology. With the exception of three stories (one being "Speech Sounds" by ( Read more... )

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No spoilers here (don't worry, those of you who are still watching).

I just would like to say that the end of Battlestar Galactica made me very angry. I spent the last hour or so wanting to punch people for the things I was seeing on the show. Ronald D. Moore and the other writers fail.

I live in Texas.  It snows maybe once a year here.  So when I woke up last week and it was snowing outside, I leapt straight from my bed, grabbed my camera and whatever shoes and jacket were nearest the door and headed out to document this event ( Read more... )

The Guardian has posted a list of some of the worst books of the decade, which got me thinking about what I'd say the worst books of the decade were. Their list and the commenters' opinions are skewed heavily toward the kind of literary fiction I don't generally read, so I can't just use theirs ( Read more... )