Review of Shannon Stoker’s The Registry
The Registry – Shannon Stoker In the future, men outnumber women, and so when a woman turns 18, they go on The Reigstry. Men can view their profiles, and make a bid for their hand in marriage. Top...
View ArticleFebruary Reading Log
I managed to read 2 short stories (Good reads counts them as books) and 6 books this month. I’m something like 6 books ahead of my goal of 60 books for the year, but I know as the year moves on, I’ll...
View ArticleMarch Reading Log
My March reading log was mostly JD Robb books. I had one other one, that I finished because I was halfway through it and figured why not. But. The reason my reading log is mostly JD Robb is because...
View ArticleApril Reading Log
I read 10 books in the month of April, which is a pretty healthy sum. I had a goal of 60 books read this year, and including April’s books, I’m at 34. I think I should have set the bar higher....
View ArticleMay Reading Log
Witness In Death – JD Robb One of my reading goals for the year was to read (and re-read) the first 10 books of JD Robb’s In Death series. I’d read the first 8, plus a few additional ones throughout...
View Article2014 Reading Goals
On Swap Bot, I’m a co-founder of a group called Carpe Librum. As you might expect, it’s all about books. One of the swaps I started at the beginning of the year was for 2014 reading goals. I find I do...
View ArticleMozzie & Cat Grass
I’ve been sick for about a week, and so nothing appeals to write about. Instead I’m going to cheat, and post a photo of Mozzie nomming the hell out of some cat grass. He loves cat grass. He’ll beg...
View ArticleJune Reading Log
June was short on reading material, I only managed 4 books, and 3 were really novellas or partials. I discovered a podcasting app on my phone, so I listened to a lot of those instead of audiobooks. The...
View ArticleThe Maze Runner
I participated in a swap on Swap Bot about Young adult books. Seems like YA novels have made the news quite a bit lately, and not just because piles of them are being made into movies. There’s a lot of...
View ArticleJuly Reading Log
July saw me chewing through seven books, which is more than average. One was a non fiction, 2 were books I had been waiting for, and two were even out of my comfort zone! That being said, only two were...
View ArticleMozzie is Lazy
Mozzie loves soft things. The softer, the better. He kneads on stuff, and then drools buckets. He will drool big enough puddles that if you sit in them, they will soak through your jeans, to your skin....
View ArticleDirty Kitty
This is what happens when you let a white cat go outside. He finds the first dirt patch and rolls…
View ArticleGeorge Orwell’s 1984
I participated in 2 swaps this month that ended up having me read George Orwell’s 1984. The first was called “Pick My Next Read” and the second was one where the genre changes each month. This month?...
View ArticleAugust Reading Log
I was busy in July, but I still managed to notch 10 books in my “read” belt. Some were short reads, like Playing with Power and The Seventh Princess, some were much longer, like 1984 and Bitten. I...
View ArticleBookish Countdown Survey
This is for a swap on Swap Bot, and wants a countdown, from 10, to 1. Well, here we go: 10 Books Already Released That Are On My Wishlist: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – Seth Grahame-Smith Dune –...
View ArticleMom! I smell mouse!
I spent most of today in bed with a migraine, but I finally felt decent this evening. I wanted to pre fire a bowl, so I headed into the shop, and Mozzie decided to come hang out with me. Nonny recently...
View ArticleMy to Be Read Pile
Ahh, the to be read pile. If I actually had a physical copy of every book I have on my to be read pile, I would have to clear out one of the spare bedrooms. Seriously, it’s that big of a pile. I was...
View ArticleSeptember Reading Log
You’d think I would have accomplished more than 4 books this month, but I didn’t. I had 2 audiobooks, a children’s book, and a travelogue. Wicked Lovely — Melissa Marr I’d read this series of books a...
View ArticleCrow With a Mouth
I came across this gem on the Huffington Post today. It’s a short video, but if you want to skip the unimportant parts, skip ahead to the 0:30 mark. There’s apparently some arguments (on the Internet,...
View ArticleOctober Reading Log
Starship Troopers – Robert A Heinlein I’ve wanted to read Starship Troopers for a while. When the movie came out in 1997, I wasn’t interested in seeing it because I kept hearing it described as...
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