We spent a leisurely day in Redding yesterday, going places we don’t usually go, doing things we don’t normally do. We bought a vast assortment of foreign dark chocolate at Cost Plus World Market. I bought two used books at Bog Bean; two new books at B&N. We investigated a new tea house, which requires [...]

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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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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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I feel like my eyes have been glued to one book or another for days now — the upshot of which is that I’m only five books short of completing the 50 Book Challenge. I’ve been re-reading Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet (one book left, one I didn’t know about; the Quint to my Time Quartet) [...]

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I’ve been suffering this weekend from something which I hate to call a cold: it’s more than dry-throat irritation (what I thought it was originally) but other than some slight nasal issues, I’ve no other symptoms. Very tired, but not really “sickly” in any other way. I’ve been drinking tea with honey for days and [...]

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