April 2009
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Adventures Through the Stargate #2: SGA
Decided to re-post this so it can be viewed if people want to.
Adventures Through the Stargate #1: SG1
Decided to re-post this so it can be viewed if people want to.
TSS: General Thoughts on Reading – Two months later
For my first Sunday Salon post I thought I’d do an update on my reading so far this year.
It has been two months since I started this blog and three since I decided I was going to attempt to read more books this year. As I said in my original General Thoughts on Reading post [...]
Booking Through Thursday: Symbolic? Or Not?
From the Booking Through Thursday blog – a weekly meme about books and reading:
My husband is not an avid reader, and he used to get very frustrated in college when teachers would insist discussing symbolism in a literary work when there didn’t seem to him to be any. He felt that writers often just [...]
"Mojo: Conjure Stories" edited by Nalo Hopkinson
“Mojo: Conjure Stories” edited by Nalo Hopkinson
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0446679291
Number of Pages: 320
A collection of 19 stories by various authors that explore the perils of personal magic, by authors of fantasy and African Diaspora fiction. Some are historical while others take place in modern times. All of them are interesting reads – though some I [...]
Read-a-Thon Post #5 – Final Hours
I went to bed at 9:30pm after reading one more story Mojo: Conjure Stories, and then woke up at 4am and started reading at 4:30am – finished the last 5 stories in the book.
Next I looked for more stories to read in Free Speculative Fiction Online, but didn’t find anything except for one story by [...]
Read-A-Thon Post #4 – Mid-Event Survey
1. What are you reading right now? – I’ve gone back to reading stories from Free Speculative Fiction Online
2. How many books have you read so far? – 13 short stories (and it should be noted that some of them were VERY short), almost feels like I’m cheating by reading short stories.
3. What book are [...]
Read-a-Thon Post #3: Lost time and slowing down
I started reading more stories from Free Speculative Fiction Online at 1pm, and only had time to read one story:
Night of the Fireflies by Dale Bailey – an interesting and weird short story.
Before I lost over two hours to lunch out with the parents and other errands. I started reading again at 3:30pm and [...]
Read-a-Thon Post #2 – More Reading
Since 10am I’ve read one more of the the Mojo: Conjure stories, and then decided to check out some online sources of short stories to read. The first place I went to was the Free Speculative Fiction Online site. I’ve been checking out the authors there and reading some of their stories. I’ve listed the [...]
Read-a-Thon Post #1a – an intro
Where are you reading from today?
ETA: (Misread the question the first time) I’m sitting in my comfortable arm chair.
3 facts about me …
I’m hard of hearing, an avid science fiction fan and a web designer
How many books do you have in your TBR pile for the next 24 hours?
Right now the plan is [...]
