Rangergirl and the case of the snappy dialogue
I'm about a quarter of the way through Tim's novel The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, and so far I'm enjoying...
Archive for Books
Africa, the Other, and sf
Some items that may or may not add up to more than the sum of their parts: Okay, so there's...
Lockpick Pornography: The Novel
I've posted a couple of times in the past year about Joey Comeau's short novel Lockpick Pornography--first when I first...
Rangergirl reading
Just a reminder that Tim Pratt will be reading at Borderlands Books in San Francisco today (Saturday, 7 January) at...
Productive
Here are some of the things I've done in the past week, in no particular order: finally washed some dishes...
(Some of my) favorite novels read in 2005
My pleasure-reading this year has been kinda haphazard. I've read probably a dozen novels (not counting re-reading the Narnia books...
Hitherby
Back in May, I posted some links to a few entries at Hitherby Dragons. I still haven't gone back to...
Outline of Narnian history, plus nitpicking
I'm continuing to re-read the Narnia books. Will have more to say about that sooner or later, but for now,...
R.I.P., Robert Sheckley
Most of you who would care know by now that sf author Robert Sheckley died a week ago. It's been...
Review: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Narnia movie was splendid. I went into it with very high hopes and a lot of trepidation. The hopes...
Boxing up the books
I've abandoned my original plan to spend this weekend doing a triage pass on Peter's books to get rid of a bunch of them before shipping them to my place; instead, I'm boxing them all up to mail, and I'll sort them at my leisure at home.
Things that have made me laugh this morning
The morning's just barely begun, and already two things have made me laugh: