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Mystery of Grace, by Charles de Lint
One Halloween, Grace Quintero meets a really nice guy name John Burns at a club and they hit it off. She is a heavily tattooed grease monkey who loves old cars, especially Fords, and rockabilly music. He is an artist who does alot of work for his friends' computer game company. But they connect and enjoy each others' company and go home together ( Read more... ) -
Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
I'd heard alot about how good this book was and decided to finally give in and read it ( Read more... ) -
Two books
The Physik Book of Deliverance Dane, by Katherine Howe, is an interesting book about witch craft and modern academy. Connie Goodwin is a grad student of Harvard, just completing her qualifying orals and thinking about her dissertation, when her mother calls. Connie is asked to clean up her grandmother's old, abandoned house, which she agrees to ( Read more... ) -
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, by Allison Hoover Bartlett
Allison Bartlett's The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession, has a pretty self-explanatory title and sub-title. Bartlett is a freelance journalist who initially wrote an article about the subject and then went on to make a book out of it. The main subject is John Gilkey, a con man ( Read more... ) -
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Those of you who listen to Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me! or WBUR's Only a Game will recognize Charles P. Pierce as Charlie Pierce. In Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free, his recently released book looks at how the American war on intellectualism manifests ( Read more... ) -
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history_grrl, I hope you had a great birthday. And if your weather was anything like it was up here, it must have been a spectacular one. -
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Back from ToV.
Good game. Things got done. People got rolled. Plots went out.
And I be tired.
Need some sleep soon, but first I need some clean clothes... -
Home from GenCon
I went to GenCon this year, my second. A good time, minus a few technical hitches not related to the con itself (such a car rental trying to spring an extra $200+ onto the deal we got from Expedia or U.S. Airways managing to loose a carry on bag).
-Indianapolis may not be the most exciting city, but blackbear88 lives there, and it is always good to see ( Read more... ) -
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Got back from Apocolypse: Metamorphosis. Very tired. Briefly: aliens had come to Earth, the US tried to nuke their base, then the aliens destroyed civilizations. A few months later, a bunch of people (us, the players) blacked out and woke up in a detention center, somewhere ( Read more... ) -
Midnight Tales, by Steven Erikson
So this is the 5th book in Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Usually, this late in a series, it becomes very difficult to talk about plot without giving away what has happened in the previous books, since they would build on each other. This time, Erikson takes us to a completely different continent and introduces us to a completely ( Read more... )