3. The Joys of Love by Madeleine L'Engle
Unabridged AudiobookI love Madeleine L'Engle's books, especially when you get away from the Wrinkle in Time Series (although I love those too). She has a super large body of work, but most major bookstores don't carry a lot of her stuff outside that series, so I poke around and acquire things where I can ( Read more... )

2. The Devil's Company by David Liss
Unabridged AudiobookI didn't like this one as much as I liked the first Liss book I listened to at Christmastime 2009. The narrative voice/character kind of annoyed me, and the whole thing wasn't nearly as appealing as I thought it would be going into it. I felt like the pacing was off, and didn't really get ( Read more... )

1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Guh. No really. Guh. I swear, I think the last 50 pages or so may have broken my heart. I loved this, but I can't really explain why. I can, though, see why people forced to read it for school would hate it.

40. Tales of the Red Panda: The Mind Master by Gregg Taylor

41. Tales of the Red Panda: The Android Assassins by Gregg Taylor
Red Panda is good in any form, and Gregg has gotten really good at writing him in both the radio drama format and the pulp novel format. This format is what makes me *love* the man, because we get to see behind the curtain ( Read more... )

A few things from a final day of preparing for Christmas ( Read more... )

Two days (really, one at this point) left until Christmas and I have returned to the land of the living (i.e. the Central Time Zone) and the mothership. There is a tree (a LIT AND ORNAMENTED TREE YAYZ!) and presents. There are plans being made to see peoples I love over the next week. Have already enjoyed time today with people I haven't seen in ( Read more... )

Tonight was my yearly dose of Christmas lights at Fort St. Clair in Eaton, Ohio. There were elephants, and beavers, and PEACOCKS! Also, there was more Christmas-y stuff, like lights, and trees, and reindeer that "jumped" across the road, which launched me and Gnomie into an off key and out of tune rendention of "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer ( Read more... )

The night before I start driving home is traditionally spent freaking out and packing too much. Thinking about nearly two weeks at home, with my parents, in a town with no evening activities, makes me freak out and want lots of entertainment. The Xbox is packed away tight, a selections of movies and tv on dvd, books, magazines, a stringwork project ( Read more... )

There was something completely different here 30 seconds ago. It wasn't good, and was a bit convoluted, so I wiped it off the screen. Maybe I can do a shorter summary that will be less boring ( Read more... )

In 2002, I met Roomie, my college roommate in some of the tiniest dorm rooms in America. At the time, Roomie's family (as well as a handfull of our friendquaintences to dot the roadmap of memories that is college) lived in what I affectionately call "NoKy" (pronounced "no-key", confused for "gnocci"). At some point very early in our friendship, ( Read more... )