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Site update announcement
This is my official post to note that as of the beginning of the new year, I’ll be doing the majority of my posting on my other blog, which is about to shift primary domains from angelakorrati.com to angelahighland.com. This is to consolidate my posting activity, and to make it easier for people who are…
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 7 (third post)
Nothing quite like two viewings of the brand new Hobbit movie to get me in the mood to keep up with the Tri-lingual Re-read! Though I gotta say, people, it’s going to be difficult swinging back into Tolkien’s descriptions of the various dwarves, now that I’ve seen the movie–twice now–and have completely fallen in love…
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2012 Book Log #15: Cape Storm, by Rachel Caine
My rating: 3 of 5 stars The second to last Weather Warden novel was one that it took me a bit to get to, on a couple of grounds. One, that one of the plot threads in it sounded like something we’d already seen happen earlier in the series. And two, that I’d started reaching…
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2012 Book Log #14: Downpour, by Kat Richardson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Oh, I do love me some Greywalker. I DO. And I happily devoured Downpour, the sixth in the ongoing Kat Richardson series. Given that this is an urban fantasy series, by now we’re well and thoroughly into the character progression–and into the inevitable levelling up of Harper’s Greywalker powers.…
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2012 Book Log #13: Follow My Lead, by Kate Noble
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Follow My Lead didn’t grab me quite as much as previous Kate Noble outings–but that isn’t to say I disliked this book. Because I didn’t! I still found this one an enjoyable read even though it didn’t click with me quite as much as the previous installments of the…
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2012 Book Log #12: Unraveled, by Courtney Milan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars The third of Courtney Milan’s Turner series, her Regencies following the Turner brothers, turned out to be just as entertaining as the first two. And in some ways, I found it the most satisfying of the three! Of the three Turner brothers, Smite’s the one who engaged my sympathies…
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TechFail, December 2012 edition
Internets, I swear to gods, I am deeply grateful to have enough income to spend on Shiny Things. I DO love my Shiny Things. But wow, sometimes transitioning from one set of Shiny Things to the next is positively crazymaking! As I’ve mentioned on the various social networks, I opted to get me a MacBook…
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More fun with studying French in SuperMemo
Here’s an unexpected side effect of doing the prepositions lesson in SuperMemo: I’ve been able to catch certain examples where the written sentence presented to me is NOT the same as the spoken sentence that the speakers in the lesson deliver. I’ve caught at least three examples like this–one of which actually affects the preposition…
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Good news everyone!
This is definitely one of those times where I need me an icon of Professor Farnsworth from Futurama, because he’s totally in my head right as I type this! But the news, oh, it is good. It is SHINY. Internets, I’m getting promoted! QA Engineer II, baby! This comes from an excellent year of slurping…
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Fun with rainbows!
So there I was taking a nap yesterday afternoon before we all scampered off to see Skyfall, when I jolted awake hearing charge down the stairs yelling “LOOK OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW!” Groggily, I did so, and perked up when I saw a rainbow out the library window! Which was lovely and all–except Dara was way…
