The Magic Echo Chamber

I have another book to recommend: Justine Larbalestier’s Liar.

There is a problem in trying to describe the book. It’s hard without giving away significant spoilers — spoilers that make it worth reading in the first place.

I will do my best to describe the experience of reading Liar. I will not spoil this book for you.

Liar is [...]

My cat helping me write. He’s a total goofball.

I’m not going to be writing a lot of book reviews here for a number of reasons. (1) I really don’t have much of an interest in reviewing books. There are a lot of fabulous review sites out there and I really don’t feel the need to turn mine into another one. (2) It takes [...]

For your pleasure while I dilly-dather doing other non-essential busy work.

APOD: 2009 October 24 – NGC 7331 and Beyond.

Feeling a bit under the weather today after a French-themed dinner at my sister-in-law’s last night. (Curse the French!) The food was universally excellent, but one of the dishes contained something that was antithetical to the yours truly. I passed a few painful hours with cramps that felt like broken glass working its way down [...]

You can’t watch this and not smile. Come on, try. I dare you.

YouTube – Where the Hell is Matt? (2008).

Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer

<flame suit on>

Disclosure the first: I did read Twilight but not any of the sequels, nor did I see the movie.

Disclosure the second: As the title of this post proclaims, I’m not terribly keen on the idea of sparkling vampires, so much so that my wife bought me a [...]

Writer Blake Charlton

A hot new fantasy and science fiction writer named Blake Charlton has a story on his website that he’s giving away for free. Yes, that magic word we all love to hear when buying ice cream and shopping for cars (though I haven’t managed to secure a free car yet, alas and [...]

A bit of an old article, but a good one. I really enjoy these books, and the HBO series (at least season one; I haven’t seen season two yet) was terrific.

Novels About a Vampire-Loving Barmaid Hit Jackpot for Charlaine Harris – NYTimes.com.

The boys and their pals at Pumpkinfest in Enola.