Enemy of Entropy

More Fun Reading from Carrie Vaughn

25 November 2007, 11:21 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Reading.

I really needed another fic­tion author to fol­low, right? But I’ve seen this series of books about a were­wolf named Kitty, and I finally got a chance to read them. I fin­ished the first, Kitty and the Mid­night Hour, today and jumped right into Kitty Goes to Wash­ing­ton. I have Kitty Takes a Hol­i­day all lined up and ready to go, but I’m already wish­ing that I had the next vol­ume, Kitty and the Sil­ver Bul­let. And that, my dears, is a sign of a fine author spin­ning a very good yarn, con­sid­er­ing all the other books wait­ing and ready on my shelf.

The library has the books labeled as hor­ror, but I’d put them in the para­nor­mal romance/​dark fan­tasy cat­e­gory. Hap­pily, the “romance” part isn’t the most sig­nif­i­cant one, and doesn’t get in the way of good plot. There was a moment today when I won­dered if ">Vaughn and Kim Har­ri­son had shared a brain to a small extent, but they’ve dealt with a super­fi­cially sim­i­lar issue in very dif­fer­ent ways.

If it weren’t for the fact that I just finally got done with my school assign­ments for the week, and must get up when Sam does in the morn­ing, I’d prob­a­bly be sit­ting up reading!

Now I really need to find a source for these short sto­ries, though. Any of you have the rel­e­vant mag­a­zine issues?

It Was a Lovely Day

12 November 2007, 10:30 pm. 7 Comments. Filed under Family, Home, Reading.

Please note: Yes, I am refer­ring to today, the 12th, which is my birth­day. Those close to me know that I gen­er­ally hate my birth­day, as it’s a reminder of mul­ti­ple mis­car­riages and other nasty things hap­pen­ing around this time sev­eral years in a row.

Sam and Katie man­aged to make #41 very nice, though.

Quotable Mug With Osho QuoteSam and I went out Sat­ur­day evening to Barnes & Noble, but I just couldn’t make a deci­sion. So many choices! We went over to Out­Write, too, which is always fun. I saw lots of adorable trin­kets there, and plenty of inter­est­ing read­ing and lis­ten­ing mate­r­ial, but still couldn’t make a choice. I really liked this mug, and it felt great in my hand, but I couldn’t find out if it’s microwave safe. (My favorite cof­fee cup was bro­ken recently, vic­tim of my unre­li­able grip. Thank you, fibro/​arthritis/​CMP!) Have any of you tried a Quotable mug? How did it hold up?

Oh! On the way home, we started to drive past Krispy Kreme and Sam had a sud­den need for donuts, so we popped in there to sat­isfy that. I’ve never done the drive-​​through there before, but things were really crowded in the store. The car line was long, too, but we had the advan­tage of pri­vacy and good com­pany while wait­ing in it.

We enjoyed being out, but I came home with­out hav­ing cho­sen any­thing but donut fill­ings. Sam threat­ened to pick for me if I didn’t make a choice on Sun­day. I have a lot of trou­ble spend­ing any money on myself, or ask­ing for presents, and he thought that’s why I hadn’t cho­sen anything.

So we went out again on Sun­day — leav­ing the house two days in a row is very unusual for me any more! I had finally decided on exactly what I wanted, and we tried to go get it, but found the place closed for Veteran’s Day. My man insisted on tak­ing me to Bor­ders and buy­ing Kim Harrison’s A Few Demons More, promis­ing that we’d also go to The Place again on Mon­day. Then he took me to Steak & Shake for din­ner, because when I saw the sign I had a seri­ous crav­ing for their mushroom-​​swiss burger. (Don’t bother with the new Por­to­bello mush­room burger, as you get far fewer mush­rooms that way!)

Katie and I (she’s home from school, sick) had a very nice, low-​​key day Mon­day, and Sam and I set out again after he got home. This time, success!

I asked for some­thing that prob­a­bly seems odd to most peo­ple — a non-​​resident library card so I can access the best library sys­tem in Geor­gia, Gwin­nett County Pub­lic Libraries. But I’d checked, and they have 95% of the books I’m really want­ing to read, and past expe­ri­ence says they’ll con­tinue to carry the fan­tasy and sci­ence fic­tion I love. They have a far bet­ter selec­tion of every­thing than Dekalb, where we live. (Okay, Gwin­nett has stopped car­ry­ing music CDs, because so many went miss­ing. Big deal.)

I wanted the card instead of a few books, because this way I can read all of them! And, in fact, we came home with nine books that have all been on my wish list for some time, and two or three graphic nov­els for Sam.

Now I have a whole pile of new-​​to-​​me books, and A Few Demons More! They’re all way too tempt­ing to a girl who still has home­work to do, includ­ing a SWOT analy­sis that’s due for my man­age­ment class this week.

Thanks to all of you for the birth­day wishes via Face­book, email, Twit­ter, LJ, etc. :-)

I have For A Few Demons More!

11 November 2007, 9:50 pm. Comments Off. Filed under Reading.

Yes yes yes, I do! Sam bought it as part of my birth­day present. Squee! Thank you, love!

I can’t start read­ing it yet, because if I do, I won’t stop. I have to be a good girl and do home­work, then it’ll be time for bed. But it’ll be there for me tomor­row morn­ing! Squee!

I made the mis­take of read­ing the first chap­ter, which is on Ms. Harrison’s site, right after she posted it. I’m not link­ing there because I tell you, you do not want to start until you can go on with this book!

Expect a review soon :-)

 

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