I’ve decided to withdraw from the To-Be-Read Challenge, as the books I chose, while needing to be read, don’t necessarily need to be read this second, this month or even this year. I’m no longer wanting to force myself to read simply to have caught up on some of my non-fiction TBR pile. (Here’s my [...]

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Spent the weekend blasting through Eragon, and then Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip, both for the What’s in a Name? Challenge. Hoping to borrow Eldest at the library this week, and also anticipating The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, on hold and awaiting pickup. I’ve started Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese Garden, one of [...]

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Once my desktop was bare (still giving me starts now and again, thinking Finder has crashed), I became acutely aware of how very plain, homely and folder-like the few folders I have there are. I spent last night in an external hard drive quest for icons. My “to the external drive” folder is a Japanese [...]

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Another year, another list of 50 books! My 2008 master list below the cut:

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I’m a huge fan of Orson Scott Card, and although I’m not going to be signing up for the Cardathon Challenge, I wanted to pimp it anyway. (I am reading at least six OSC books this next year; I’m just not much for writing reviews.) Not only is the entire OSC catalog up for reading, [...]

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To celebrate the launch of Foxy Writer, Lenneth is hosting a book challenge for 2008: the Mythopoeic Award Challenge. Here’s my master list:

Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia A. McKillip
The Line Between by Peter S. [...]

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ETA: Withdrew from this challenge on March 10, 2008. Explanation here.
I really enjoyed this year’s 50 Books Challenge, hence my lining up more for 2008. (Re the 50 Book Challenge, I still have over three days left in 2007. Two books in three days? NO PROBLEM.) Dovetailing with my personal 50 Book Challenge for 2008, [...]

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