Be Excellent to Each Other
This month has been pretty rough with all the violence going on. We need to take a page from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and “Be excellent to each other.” Courtesy of TheGoodVibe.co, which...
View ArticleStacked Squares Glass Plate
I haven’t done a lot with the glass this year. I’ve spent a lot of 2016 ill: twisted appendage on my intestine, gall bladder and appendix quitting the ship, and in July, a sinus infection that wouldn’t...
View ArticleJuly Reading Log
I was busy this month. I read a lot of shorter stories and novellas this month, making my total 10. One was a re-read so I could read the next book and finish a series. Another was an audio drama that...
View ArticleAugust Reading Log
10 books! I was busy Robopocalypse – Daniel H. Wilson I was looking for more books told like World War Z – a sort of oral history of a cataclysmic event. Someone online mentioned Robopocalypse was told...
View ArticleSeptember Reading Log
So, 6 books read this month, and none of them audiobooks. I don’t know why, but I didn’t want to listen to audiobooks at work this month. Seems pretty heavy on the Young Adult this month, with what...
View ArticleOctober Reading Log
Only 4 books in October. One was Outlander, which is plenty long, so I don’t feel too bad. I split that book into audiobook and ebook, listened to two on audiobook, and then read the fourth as an...
View ArticleIn Light of This Week
In light of this week, with tensions running high, please remember
View ArticleNovember Reading Log
Enemy – K. Eason This one was picked for me for a swap on Swap Bot. I honestly can’t think of much to say. Set in a high fantasy world, one of the main characters, Snow, is what I’d guess to be a Drow,...
View ArticleDecember Reading Log
Would you believe 11 books this month? I wouldn’t, if I hadn’t just counted them up. My work acquired 2 new contracts, both of which mean increased deliveries for us. So I spent most of December...
View ArticleThe Burning Crusade Turns 10
10 years ago today, Blizzard Entertainment released The Burning Crusade, the first expansion for World of Warcraft. I remember waiting anxiously for the release because I really, really wanted an...
View ArticleCL: End of Year Book Survey 2016
2016 Reading Stats Number Of Books You Read: 93! That’s up from 60 the year before Number of Re-Reads: 2, which is unexpected. Genre You Read The Most From: Young Adult Best in Books 2016 Best Book You...
View ArticleJanuary Reading Log
My goal for 2017 is 60 books, like last year. Also like last year, I’m hoping to be well past 60 by year’s end. 60 books means 5 per month, and as of right now, I’m a little behind. I finished 4 books...
View ArticleWould You Rather?
Drop your favorite book in the toilet -or- watch it fall into the wood chipper? Wood chipper. At least then I wouldn’t be tempted to try and salvage it. Read only 1 book a year but remember everything...
View ArticleFebruary Reading Log
Stasis 1.1 Beta & Stasis 1.2 Beta – EW Osborne I’ve read some of the things Osborne has written under a pen name, and liked them. And this one is involving an apocalypse. Only, it’s starting at the...
View ArticleThe Fuck, Duolingo?
I took Spanish in high school, squeezing 5 years of study into 4 years of school, and then another 4 classes or so in college. Then I quit studying it. I’ve been trying to get back into it, so I’m...
View ArticleHappy St. Patrick’s Day
I don’t generally celebrate it, but Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Being Pagan, I’m not wild about St. Patrick showing up in Ireland and driving the snakes out, as the snakes were the pagans. But, many...
View ArticleMay Reading Log
Lazy Steph is lazy. Sorry about that. Only 3 books this month. Last month was the first time in about 4 years that I did not do a reading log. I just couldn’t get it together that month. I’ll backdate...
View ArticleJune Reading Log
I read 5 books in June: 1 short story, one fully length novel, and the re-listens of 3 audiobooks. I’d listened to American Gods last month, in a full cast, so I chose the Immortal quartet because it’s...
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