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Barrayar
Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold My rating: 4 of 5 stars I finished the first one and cracked open (well, if you can “crack open” on the Nook) the second book on the same night, so it really felt more...
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I can’t believe I’m just copying and pasting this from Facebook, but… it’s where I wrote it first, and I’d rather take a long hot shower this morning than rephrase and rewrite it. #Honesty I had such a...
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The Warrior’s Apprentice
The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold My rating: 4 of 5 stars For all that I thought I’d go into this book resenting that it was no longer about Cordelia but about Miles, I have to admit I...
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The Vor Game
The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold My rating: 3 of 5 stars Our hero, Miles, is shuffled off to an Arctic station where his assignment is to keep his nose clean and learn how to get along with...
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Cetaganda
Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold My rating: 3 of 5 stars What Barrayar was thinking, sending Miles and Ivan to represent them at the funeral of the Empress of a long-standing but currently quiet...
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On Basilisk Station
On Basilisk Station by David Weber My rating: 4 of 5 stars While I did see a few phrases (mostly about Honor’s eye color) repeated to the point of wanting to hand the author a thesaurus, I found that...
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Dust
Dust by Elizabeth Bear My rating: 1 of 5 stars I tried, I really did. I’ve read other things by this author and loved them, and I’m not quite sure why I couldn’t get into this book. Especially because...
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Instead of 5000 words….
That was a tasty beer. Slightly fruity (it was the “blackberry juice” on the label that got me). — New at Ingenue Avenue, a selection of guest soaps inspired by Sarkara Sweet’s cupcake line! — If you...
View ArticleThe one where I lose all my geek readers
I’m getting kind of tired of people being in an uproar about BBC not making the new Doctor a woman. I’m as much a feminist as the next marginalized human being who’s ever been talked down to because...
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I have more than a couple thing saved in Feedly…. The Weirdest Things You Never Knew About the Making Of Flash Gordon The Art of Neil Gaiman 31 Essential Science Fiction Terms And Where They Came From...
View ArticleLate night, so sleepy
Pour me another coffee, stat! We watched the new version of Rocky Horror last night, and then the old version – just until Frank shows up and sings his first song – and now I just want to finish this...
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Counting down to Star Wars yarn
I still have a few pre-orders available for the Star Wars yarn — through that listing you can pre-order three skeins of yarn (there are ten colors available) in two different bases (a sock weight and...
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What do nine and sixteen have in common?
In nine more days, the pre-orders for Star Wars-inspired yarn will go away… and in sixteen days, the limited number of singles I’ll have will go up for sale. I should have between ten and twelve of...
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Wash, or wash not; there is no …
…. uh, okay, I totally can’t think of how to end that. There is no dirt? Well of course there wouldn’t be any dirt… if you washed. But if you washed not? There would be dirt. Erm. Maybe I should...
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Good thing I read so much dystopian science fiction growing up
Granted, mostly what I read was post-nuclear war fiction, and not pandemic/epidemics. But still. Alas, Babylon and Farnham’s Freehold were my two favorites. Babylon was set close to my area in...
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