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Saturday, December 31, 2005

Resolved

I’m not big on New Year’s Resolutions. If something needs to be changed in my life, I figure it’s best to change it when I think of it. No need to wait until January 1st. But this is a good time to be thankful for everything I have, and to remind myself that I should remain [...]
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Little Bits

The Best Books I Read this Year: In Camelot’s Shadow by Sarah Zettel A Sorcerer’s Treason by Sarah Zettel Sorcery & Cecelia -OR- The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer Rising Stars by J. Michael Straczynski The Swan’s War by Sean Russell The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn The Southern Vampire Mysteries [...]
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auld lang syne

auld lang syne Main Entry: auld lang syne Pronunciation: “Ol(d)-”(l)a[ng]-’zIn, “ol(d)- Function: noun Etymology: Scots, literally, old long ago : the good old times
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Major Degree

Quiz Time! (more…)
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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Bad Dog!

Bounder burned down his dog house while we were all in Baltimore! Luckily, no dogs were harmed in the process, and now my dad has to buy Bounder a new dog house. Bad dog!
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The Thief’s Gamble

The Thief’s Gamble (1999) Juliet E. McKenna In the past, I have refused to pick up a series unless I can get all the books in that series. Because there’s little worse than starting a series and then not being about to find the rest of it. However, because I can now order books on-line, and [...]
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Monday, December 26, 2005

Dante, Revised

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Sorcery & Cecelia -OR- The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

Sorcery & Cecelia -OR- The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (1988) Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer After putting down a book that looked promising but I found only annoying after the first several chapters, I picked up Sorcery & Cecelia, which I’d put on my wish list because I thought it looked interesting. I thought that I’d [...]
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Happy Boxing Day!

Yesterday, as was traditional, we played Oh Hell. This was the bidding for the three hand. Me: Okay, bids? Mom: One Dad: Two Me: One. That’s four to you Michael, you can’t bid negative one. Michael: Cool. I bid zero. Dad: Wait! I didn’t bid! Me: Yeah you did, you bid two. Mom: Yes, you bid two, I heard you. Dad: No! No! That wasn’t [...]
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Sunday, December 25, 2005

Season’s Greetings!

Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! And Happy whatever else you may or may not be celebrating today! Love, Michelle
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Saturday, December 24, 2005

For Camelot’s Honor

For Camelot’s Honor (2005) Sarah Zettel In a burst of paranoia, I held of reading this book, for fear that it wouldn’t be as good as the previous in this series, In Camelot’s Shadow. Once again I was proven to be just that–paranoid. I was pleased to discover that Sarah Zettel did a good job with [...]
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Preacher: Gone to Texas

Preacher Vol 1 Gone to Texas (1996) Garth Ennis First, a disclaimer. I’m squeamish. In fact, I will walk out of the room during particularly violent scenes in movies, and haven’t watched a horror movie since I was in high school. (Why? Because graphic violence gives me really unpleasant dreams.) Thing is, it all depends upon [...]
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Christmas Eve

Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled, all snug in their beds. While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads. And Ma in her kerchief, and I [...]
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Happy Holidays

It’s Christmas Eve and I’ve had the entire week off from work. What have I been doing? Baking. Specifically: Peanut butter kisses M&M cookies Rugelach Thumbprints Iced sugar cookies Pumpkin spice cookies Lemon wafers Harvest Bars Peanut butter fudge bars Cranberry bars Yum!
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Thursday, December 22, 2005

Wizard’s First Rule

Wizard’s First Rule (1994) Terry Goodkind Michael has been reading Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series for several years now, and has mentioned repeatedly that he thought I should read it. So, with two weeks off from work, I decided I’d read the first book, just to see. It’s good, and it’s interesting, but I definitely did [...]
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Solstice

Happy Winter!
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Narnia

Just got back from seeing The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. It was good, although I did have a few nits to pick. First, I realize the movie was only PG, but not only was there no blood, but Peter’s sword remained shiny throughout the entire battle sequences. That was just entirely too clean. [...]
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

The Rule of Three

The latest rant over at Smart Bitches Who Read Trashy Books got me thinking. Their complaint is about a romance publisher who is apparently increasing the font size and the margins of books by decreasing the word count. On one hand, I can understand precisely where they’re coming from–paperback prices are up to $7 or $8 now, [...]
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The UPS Man! Loot!

You know you order a lot of stuff on-line when the UPS man asks you, “What are you doing home? You’re never home!”
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Monday, December 19, 2005

Slow and Steady

Well, I’m up to 25k words now. Things aren’t going quickly, but at least they’re going. I had a problem last week, when I decided that I had a major plot continuity problem, however, I have resolved that issue, at least for now. We’ll see if it holds up. And for the curious, here’s the first draft [...]
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