A few weeks back, somebody commenting on one of the posts in my main journal strongly encouraged my reading some George Carlin. Since I've been "coached" to consider the serendipitous for the job search and much associated with it, I decided to take up the suggestion and order in three of Carlin's books. All I can say after reading Brain Droppings is that I'm glad i got them from Amazon's...

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Happy birthday, muse_books !

All of these books form part of series that I've been reading. Book 103: The Secret Speech Author: Tom Rob Smith, 2009 Genre: Thriller. Historical. 1950s Russia. Other Details: Hardback. 453 pages Three years have passed since the events of Child 44 (my 2009 Book 55 ) and continues to detail the life of former MGB officer, Leo Demidov. I won't say too much about the plot to...

I'm very pleased to announce that the Fall 2009 issue of Goblin Fruit is up, featuring the work of the talented brigidsblest , along with stillnotbored , time_shark , cucumberseed , sovay , mtentchoff , hooks_and_books , shweta_narayan , amagiclantern , grayrose76 , neile and many more. (Not surprisingly, my...

OK ... so I've been doing "paleo-SocialMedia" for what, 10, 12 years now? When LiveJournal came along (and I was one of the first 3,000 aboard) it was a big step up in communications from the previous options (chat rooms, etc.), and almost everybody used it to vent, complain, air "dirty laundry", wail, moan, and gnash teeth. These days you see pieces about "how to be a successful blogger" and one...

And what an issue it is . Clearly we're holing up for the winter with this issue; we offer up to you a well-laden table heaving beneath the weight of no fewer than twenty-six poems! Go forth and feast on work by Jacqueline West, Erik Amundsen ( cucumberseed ), Sonya Taaffe ( sovay ), Susannah Mandel, Joanna Gardner, Paul Christian Stevens, Marcie Tentchoff ( mtentchoff ),...

I am probably too socially cautious to ever be a truly useful critic — in fact, not long ago I was publicly criticized within the speculative poetry sphere for disguising barbs with disingenuous politeness rather then being up front and blunt. There is truth to that, but I'm 40 years old and unlikely to start doing things different now. The reviews written by seajules are up front and blunt...

School, life and everything have conspired against me to the point that I've come to a decision: much as I loved playing Nanao, it's time to let her go. The plot I started regarding the King's Realm isn't dead; it can be unshelved whenever the Illuminati feel up to tackling the building of a gate to take them there. I think I had an excellent run with her, and I loved playing her against so many different...

My reviews for August have taken a while to write up, so because there are 13 of them I'll keep the summaries brief though links led to longer reviews in my journal. Book 87: Nemesis (Detective Harry Hole Book 04) by Jo Nesbø, 2002. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett, 2008. As with the previous book in this series, Redbreast , I found this an intelligent police procedural though with...