National Literacy Month: What book got you hooked on reading?

I’m still cleaning up the blog, trying to combat link rot. Somehow, I fell into looking at the draft posts. This one is from 2009 and I haven’t the foggiest notion as to why I didn’t publish it. Today’s prompt…

Do you have to finish books you start?

This started out as a comment on a poll over at GoodReads. It got too wordy and I figured it would be better to turn it into a post. I used to refuse to quit reading after starting a book,…

Book Review: Blood Lite III: Aftertaste edited by Kevin J. Anderson

Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. You can comment here or there. Blood Lite III: After­taste by Kevin J. Ander­son My rat­ing: 2 of 5 stars This anthol­ogy is sup­posed to be humor­ous hor­ror. I have a mes­sage for Kevin J.…

Book Review: Hammered by Kevin Hearne

Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. You can comment here or there. Ham­mered by Kevin Hearne My rat­ing: 5 of 5 stars Wow. This book has a non-​​stop pace, for rea­sons that will be obvi­ous to the reader but can­not be…

Fight Brain Fog!

Or, at the very least, give yourself more resources to fight it! Cognitive abilities are like muscles, in that they have to be developed and exercised regularly, even stretched to keep them flexible. We can’t necessarily avoid the cognitive deficits…

What was your favourite part about returning to school?

The NaBloPoMo prompt for today: What was your favourite part about returning to school? That’s not an easy question. It wasn’t cool to acknowledge being happy to return to school each year, of course, so while I was glad, I…

Review: All Clear by Connie Willis

Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. You can comment here or there. All Clear by Con­nie Willis My rat­ing: 5 of 5 stars Well, this vol­ume moved much more quickly than Black­out did! Hav­ing read a brief piece writ­ten by Ms.…

Book Review: Night’s Edge

Night’s Edge by Maggie Shayne My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Dancers in the Dark” by Charlaine Harris is set in the same universe as the Southern Vampire/Sookie Stackhouse stories, but with none of the incredibly annoying characters. How refreshing!

Maybe It Isn’t the Flu

Katie seems to be feeling a bit better. She slept through most of the day, and just got up a few minutes ago (right at the end of my and Sam’s date) feeling like she could eat something. Solid food,…

An Update Instead of a Book Review!

I looked back at my recent entries and realized that it’s been a really long time since I posted much of anything substantive. I’m coming out of a long period of being nearly zombified thanks to one of my medications.…

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