In Which Your Humble Blogger spends much of the note talking specifically about the details of the ending, so, Gentle Reader, if you haven’t read it (or finished it), maybe don’t click through.
In Which Your Humble Blogger mourns the passing of a funny man.
In Which we we pull down on the lever/cast our ballots and we endeavor/to improve our country, state, county, town, and school.
Gentle Readers all, settle in for a bit of a shift. By the kind hands of Mine Gracious Host, this Tohu Bohu is going to undergo a bit of a change. Most of y’all will experience it as a purely…
So, my main complaint with Lois McMaster Bujold’s book Sharing Knife 2: The Legacy was that there was very little plot. Now, I’ve said before (and I’ll say again) that Ms. Bujold is particularly and peculiarly good at plot, specifically…
Things YHB looks for in Thursday Next books: very bad puns, particularly involving characters with goofy names; audience-participation Shakespeare; puns even worse than the other ones. Things YHB does not look for in Thursday Next books: jokes about how slothful…
In honor of National Dictionary Day, the Oxford University Press has decided to make the Oxford Language Dictionaries Online free for the week. That’s right, it’s National Dictionary Day, in honor of Noah “06119” Webster, one hundred and forty-nine years…
Your Humble Blogger is quite late to the game in linking to ZIPskinny (beta), a site that takes the Census 2000 data and makes it available by ZIP code. I, of course, plugged in my own locality, which did not…
Your Humble Blogger reread A Civil Campaign. It was fun. It’s a perfect bathtub book in many ways, not least that it’s a small, cheap paperback. I found myself enjoying the goofiness of the “science” fiction this time through. There…
I happened to pick up Mainspring at the library, because I’ve heard good things about it, and about Jay Lake, and I was looking for something easy and fun. And it was, largely, easy, and the beginning was fun. It’s…