So I got into Redwall when I was in elementary school. Then I promptly got out of it because it was far too violent and I was too sensitive for such things. Except when I was not. I used to play pretend on the playground with my little brother and dude friends, and I would always be a badger, because badgers were the coolest of the goodbeasts. Who ( Read more... )

In lieu of a new place and a new job, here are some off-the-cuff resolutions ( Read more... )

It's local book awards time and I'm going through a list of teen lit. Two down, a zillion to go (although I won't be reading more than a sampling myself. Many hands and all ( Read more... )

I would not normally post this sort of thing before a review(s), but because a lot of the information I've seen about this in the Internet is wrong or incomplete, I thought I'd throw it in ( Read more... )

So I read/plowed through Sham: How the self-help movement made America helpless, because having been extremely cynical about self-help since I was, oh, about 8, sometimes it is nice to read largely citation-free psuedo-exposes that reinforce your own prejudices. Unfortunately, although I enjoyed the book to a point, and enjoyed the points, near the ( Read more... )

I think I am allergic to the bathroom and the library in equal measure.

Sometimes they are more fun than actually writing.

( The Final Confrontation Between Harry and Voldemort, as Written by Ursula Le Guin* )

So I spent my first day of break reading my butt off. I read plenty of academic crap, but Hunger Games and Catching Fire are seriously just about the only YA fiction I've read in a long while. Well. Okay, and Compound, but I keep wiping that from my mind. I have intended to go with "popular, at least around here" over "something I actually want to ( Read more... )

Evil in games is often funny ( Read more... )