Enemy of Entropy

Happy Wednesday!

23 January 2008, 11:11 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under College, Education, Family, Homeschooling, Reading.

Sam and I had a very nice date night while Katie was out with her beau. He had started mak­ing chili last night, fin­ished it tonight, and added corn muffins. I’m not a big fan of chili (I won’t eat it if Sam didn’t make it), but it was a very sat­is­fy­ing meal.

The girl is doing very well in the online course she’s tak­ing, and I’m happy to say that my semes­ter is going well, too. It’s hard to believe that my baby will likely start col­lege courses this sum­mer or fall!

I haven’t talked as much about read­ing lately, since I’ve been busier doing school stuff. I did, how­ever, fin­ish books two and three of Julie Kenner’s demon-​​hunting soc­cer mom series (thanks again, Hope!). I fin­ished Kitty & the Sil­ver Bul­let by Car­rie Vaughn a cou­ple of days ago, then read Dates from Hell, an anthol­ogy, yesterday.

I espe­cially enjoyed Kel­ley Armstrong’s novella, Chaotic, but Undead in the Gar­den of Good and Evil by Kim Har­ri­son was awfully good, too. Lori Handeland’s Dead Man Dat­ing and Lyn­say Sands’ The Claire Switch Project were just too romance-​​y for my tastes, but that seems to hap­pen with at least one or two sto­ries in every anthology.

Read­ing the lat­est in Mon­ica Fer­ris’ Needle­craft Mys­ter­ies, Knit­ting Bones, got me feel­ing all stitchy.

Now I’m on to another anthol­ogy, Hol­i­days Are Hell. I know that I like Kim Har­ri­son and Vicki Pettersson’s work, I’ll prob­a­bly give Lyn­say Sands one more chance, and I haven’t read any­thing by Mar­jorie M. Liu before that I recall.

I started to read Yel­low Eyes by John Ringo, then real­ized that it’s book eight of the Posleen War series, and I missed books six and seven. Now nine is out! So I’ll be putting in more library requests, then com­ing back to that one.

I’ve also got Those Left Behind, a graphic novel that’s sup­posed to bridge the gap between the Fire­fly series and the movie, Seren­ity. I don’t nor­mally read graphic nov­els, but this seems to be the only way to get that story, so I’ll give it a chance and hope it’s decent.

1 Comment »

  1. avatar Hope. 26 January 2008, 10:59 am

    My plea­sure :) I’m happy to be a book enabler!

    I fin­ished read­ing Bit­ten recently. It wasn’t as good as I expected. Then again, I had pretty high expec­ta­tions after read­ing Exit Strat­egy. It didn’t help she used a trope that invari­ably pisses me off — the nice guy who gets shafted for the high crime of being the nice guy in love with the same woman as the bad boy. It’s funny, though, my room­mate read Phillip very dif­fer­ently than I did. It’s a great exam­ple of how what you bring to a work effects how you expe­ri­ence it.

 

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