I finished The Gathering Storm this weekend. It was absolutely fantastic. I was drawn completely in, down to gasping and whimpering as events unfolded. It was a major rush, and I can’t wait for the last two (for reals, yo) books to come out. Pure bliss. Major kudos to Brandon Sanderson – he pulled it off beautifully. In other news, I tried to electrocute myself last Wednesday. Took out half a wall and 3 computers in the lab at school – talk about embarrassing. So, I was going to work on my project write up, using Pages, which means using…
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Update in bulleted form: Reading! The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose around the alabaster spire known as the White Tower. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning. Having read #1 – #11 of…
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Polonius: What do you read, my lord?Hamlet: Words. Words. Words.Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii “When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” – Erasmus“I cannot live without books.” – Thomas Jefferson“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” – Mark Twain“Whenever books are burned, men also are burned.” – Robert A. HeinleinHappiness is an unlimited supply of good books.Upset the politically correct – read banned books. GoodReads 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009
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Who says cats are graceful? They must have some massive PR budget, because my cats, at least, are decidedly not graceful. Proof lies in the tale I’m about to relate. OK, take a look at this picture. This is an old picture; now there is another bookcase along the wall between the light and dark bookcases. It fits snugly – the corners of the book cases meet, creating a square behind them that is blocked off. Nothing is there, can’t get to it. The plastic containers on top of the bookcase aren’t there any more, but the monkey with the…
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sqlrob‘s birthday is this week and, of course, Giftmas is coming up fast so on a whim I searched ebay for a book he’s been looking for – an out of print (at the moment) Red Iron Nights. Found it, autographed even, so I bought it. Guess who saw the page before I could click away? Grr. Originally published at Jen’s Corner. You can comment here or there.
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I made this graphic, just for fun. I don’t know why. :D
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Wow. I just finished the most amazing book – Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell. I found this book when I asked a guy at BookPeople for a dystopia, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s a nested set of matryoshka dolls in front of a mirror; six separate stories woven together from the 1850s to a post-apocalyptic future and back again. Each could stand on its own, yet when taken together are glorious. Here’s some thoughts I had while reading it: About 10 pages in: Hmm. This doesn’t seem much like a dystopia. Oh well, it’s ok so far. About…
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Photography I joined a photo group called Project 365+1 – the idea is you take (and post) a photo every day. Other than that, there’s no rules – it can be slice of life, “artistic”, whatever. Mine will probably be heavy on the cat side. :) My cameras are: Nikon D50 (love this camera) Canon Powershot SD1000 (new!) HP Photosmart 320 (old, and probably retired soon) Anyhow, so far I haven’t missed a day, although I’ve been posting in batches rather than every day. I also haven’t managed to post them on my ‘blog, either. I really need to work…
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Originally published at Jen’s Corner. You can comment here or there. Wow. Fantastic. Heart-wrenching. Exhilarating. Satisfying. 759 pages; 7½ hours of reading. Over. Now to put my LJ reading list back together. :D (Don’t read comments if you haven’t finished the book – there may be spoilerish things mentioned.)
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Originally published at Jen’s Corner. You can comment here or there. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was great! And speaking of Harry Potter, since there’s some spoiler hints even on CNN, it’s time for me to pull the plug. From /. – “Salon reports that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has been leaked four days before it hits bookstores. It turns out that someone with access to the American edition of the book has taken a photograph of every one of the pages and made them available via bittorrent. Publishers may well be quaking in their…