books read, early November

Christopher Benfey, The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan . This was supposed to be about the intersection of cultures between New England and Japan in the late 19th century. The balance tipped a great deal more towards New England than I would have preferred, but it was still interesting, a fresh look at cultural figures I knew and a few I'd never...

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whee, book

So: Reginald Hill! Why didn't any of you tell me? Did you think I already knew, or does he get weird (I mean bad-weird) early or late in the series? I'm halfway through Arms and the Women , which I selected more or less at random from the library's collection in this series, and it has a major character who is writing a novel, and it has bits of the novel in the book, and you know what? I don't ...

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Next up: the adventures of Charles Dickens and Ben Dover!

I have found a vein of popcorn in my grandpa's library, and I'm mining it to get me through this stupid obnoxious virus, like ya do, like I'm absolutely sure he did. This particular popcorn is Stuart Woods novels, thrillers. The main character is Stone Barrington, which is quite, um, quite enough. But in this particular volume, he's having adventures with Thomas Hardy and Harry Pitts. Perhaps we...

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that's some painful denial right there

I guess I can breathe better? >>?? I'm still coughing though XD;; You can learn a lot about someone by the music they listen to. So here is the game! Hit shuffle on your ipod or mp3 player and write down the first 25 songs. No cheating or skipping songs that are shameful. That is the fun! Then tag your friends. 1: Weezer - Hash Pipe 2: Pink - Get This Party Started (i... have this??) 3...

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Question of the day, #1

So I was thinking about the recent rants from "oh noes, girl cooties in my SF" people. I was thinking about which traits of mine are most crucial to my reading experience when reflected in characters. I do not, for example, find it particularly difficult to care about male characters, or non-white characters, or homosexual characters. But I was pretty sure that if I thought about it, I would come...

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Iorich by Steven Brust

Disclosure: review copy provided by Tor, and skzbrust is a friend of mine. This one isn't out until January, according to the printing on the back. I generally try to be careful of spoilers in book review posts, but I think more so in this one because you can't run out and buy it and read it right away. What you can do, though, is if you have friends or family who give you money for ...

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a pause for excitement.

Ohh, this is great news! I can't wait! :D (Please, Ms. Winspear, include some Detective Stratton/Maisie relationship. Pretty, pretty please? :D)

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barely there.

220 "subscriptions" in Google (haha, wrote that "goodle" first) reader... so far. :/ (I'm only to the "h"s.) HELLO, BLOGS! ;) In other (better) news: - birdfeeder is a success! despite some "bully birds" (sparrows, big and chunky, that have run the other bird varieties out for the time being), the birdies outside my window are happy campers. and I'M a happy camper for them because they'...

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I don't see how there can be two kinds of least bittern. I think one of them is the next-to-least.

On the list of things my grandfather cared about that I only care about indirectly because of him is birds. I am not fond of birds, mostly. Mostly I feel that birds and I are happiest if we keep our distance from each other. But Grandpa liked birds; he kept an eye out for raptors in particular when we were traveling, and when we were fully awake we almost never mistook his cries for, "Look, ...

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Bookses

Wow, I updated two days in a row. It's a miracle! I know I said I'd finish typing up Moderation, but... I got distracted? Anyway, I dug up this meme and I just -had- to do it

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