72 books read in 2014, and a ton of short stories

Favorites:
Etiquette and Espionage, by Gail Carriger.  I HAVE to get my hands on the rest of this series, which is a YA prequel to her Soulless books (which made my best-of list last year!).
The Masqueraders, by Georgette Heyer.  Cross-dressing regency fun!
A Turn of Light, by Julie Czerneda: an ( Read more... )

I know I don't write here much anymore, but I can't let the year go without my annual list! So here's the best of/worst of the 68 new books I read in 2013, in no particular order:

Favorite books of 2013:
To Ride Hells Chasm, by Janny Wurts: I've been loving her Wars of Light and Shadow series, this is the first of her standalones that I've read ( Read more... )

I've just looked at my page and realized that I've only written one post since last year's best-of entry, and that was also about books. Guess it's hard to find the energy for long updates about my life these days. Suffice it to say that motherhood is proving to be the most exhausting and most exhilirating thing I have ever done, and my little ( Read more... )

Stolen from phoenixfalls, I'm keeping her version of the instructions:

SF MistressworksCriteria were adult SF titles only (no fantasy or YA) published before 2000. Original instructions were to bold those I've read and italicize those I own but haven't read yet [I'm just going to use italics for books I want to read, even if I don't own it yet]; I added ( Read more... )

I'm not going to go month-by-month this year, because my reading was drastically reduced from April on (can't imagine why...) and there were some months when I only read one book. Funny how babies rearrange your priorities :) But I certainly didn't stop reading altogether - that's NEVER gonna happen! I read 39 books in 2011 (assuming I don't ( Read more... )

Here's NPR's list of the top 100 SF/Fantasy novels and series, according to popular vote... because it's popular vote, there are definitely a few WTF entries and a bunch of brilliant books that are missing, but overall it's fun to think about anyway...

Bolding is for books/series I've read
Italics are for books/series I plan on reading
Underlining ( Read more... )

Last year I think I only posted this on Facebook. Going to do it both places this year, just for kicks.

Total book count in 2010: 76, not counting re-reads (77 if I manage to finish my current read before midnight, but that probably won't happen). More than I expected, actually, given that I barely had any energy at all to read during the first ( Read more... )

So when the hubby was out of town last week, I got lazy one night and took myself to New England Soup Factory for dinner, where they had this AMAZING potato apple fennel soup. We got some nice fennel at the farmers market yesterday so I decided to attempt to recreate it. Of course it wasn't nearly as good as theirs (for starters, theirs was ( Read more... )

I don't have anything especially profound to say here, I just had to share the awesomeness of my new July 4th icon.

Now, back to packing. Moving on Monday. AAAAH!

Since I couldn't take much time off in October right after the wedding (six months tomorrow! CRAZY!), we're taking a belated honeymoon this August and have just finished booking all of our accomodations. I CAN'T WAIT!!!

Here's the itinerary:
( Italia! )