I read Ill Wind by Rachel Caine last night. It was pretty good, and I hope to read the others in the series soon. I’m still slogging through The Assassin’s Edge: The Fifth and Final Tale of Einarinn. The fourth…
What’s Wrong With Fan Fic
Robin Hobb hit most of the things I hate it about it here. Thanks for the link, rolanni!
Yes!
After many years, articles from the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity have been collected in a new volume! The first volume, which I’ve owned for years, proved its worth (beyond the fact that it’s good reading), when a prospective beau wanted…
So What Do They Learn From a Sleep Study if You Don’t Sleep?
I got *maybe* two hours of sleep all Thursday night. That was verified by the monitoring tech. In fact, he came into the room around 3:30 and said, “Are you ever going to go to sleep?” Of course, I was…
Whoops
You know that manicure I got a few weeks back? Now I’m trying to get the acrylic overlay off my nails. Ick. Katie and I have sleep studies tonight. I just got around to really reading some of the instructions,…
Silly Me
Reading LJ Community Polyamory means daily exposure to train wrecks. I wouldn’t do it at all if it weren’t that I like to see what the denizens of LJ Community Dot_Poly_Snark are chortling about. Someone deleted a snark post that…
The Book Meme
1) Total number of books owned? Readerware says 1447, but I’m not done with the inventory yet. We’ve weeded out our collection repeatedly over the last seven years, and I’ve been doing so longer than that. If it isn’t something…
Ow!
One bee sting is bad enough. How about 25? Okay, to be fair they were injections of various sorts of insect venoms—bees, yellowjackets, hornets, etc. But damn if they didn’t sting, and my arms still hurt despite the fact that…
I 💜 Bishop Spong
Liberal Bible-Thumping I’m a few books behind on his works, but I think I’ll try to get this one soon.
Mental Literacy, Anyone?
The topic of mental literacy came up in comments on veryty‘s journal recently. Mental literacy refers to knowing how your brain works, specifically how you learn and how to learn. I’m reading The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant…