Rogue by Rachel Vincent My review rating: 2 of 5 starsI am officially annoyed. I want some kind of law, or at least an industry standard, that requires publishers to label any novel that doesn’t tie up all its little…
Time Sinks
Thanks to an LJ friend, I spent a whole lot of the last few days reading The Law Dog Files. The man really does need to put together a book of his stories, or maybe a few books, because he…
Nerd Joy!
We’ve been scanner-deprived for many months now, because the multifunction printer gave up the ghost. We acquired an older model HP scanner via Freecycle a while back, but it wouldn’t work. The moving bit inside had been locked down for…
Methinks I Need to Safeword
I’m about 3/4 of the way through The Devil’s Right Hand by Lilith Saintcrow—3rd of 5 or 6 books in the Dante Valentine series—and I don’t think I can take any more. I want to know how the story ends. I…
Blah — Spammers Are Scum
Not that it’s news to anyone, I know. But Defensio was down this evening (because of an Amazon server failure), which meant that all of our sites have been slammed with comment spam. They all get hit constantly, but it’s…
TotD: Ray Kurzweil on Change
Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Centuries ago people didn’t think that the world was changing at all. Their grandparents had the same lives that they did, and they expected their grandchildren would do the same,…
Review: Spectre by Phaedra Weldon
Spectre by Phaedra Weldon My review rating: 3 of 5 starsHmm. Spectre feels less like a sequel to Wraith than a chapter two, if that makes any sense. Both books are full-sized novels, but they’re so closely related that book…
SBQ: Overdyed Floss or Hand-dyed Fabric?
I’m quite late with the current Stitching Blogger’s Question, which is: If you had to choose, would you rather spend money on overdyed floss or hand-dyed fabric? Overdyed floss, certainly. I’ve only purchased one piece of hand-dyed fabric, and nobody is…