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Tonight’s adventures in Nethack
One of the side effects of playing all this Skyrim here at the Murk: I’ve totally gotten back onto a Nethack kick. I had a great game going, and fired up the save file from yesterday’s run tonight. I was in Sokoban and died horribly, like ya do, ’cause, well, Nethack. I proceeded to have…
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Incoming Seattle snowstorm alert for Murkworks.net users
Most of you out there probably are aware already, but just in case you aren’t, be advised that we have serious snow on the way here. Therefore, as is often the case when we have wacky fun weathertimes, connectivity to Murkworks.net and resources we house may be impacted. Our power may go out, or even…
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2011 Book Log #43: Running Scared, by Elizabeth Lowell
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Running Scared is Book 2 of Elizabeth Lowell’s Rarities Unlimited series, but I was a bit disappointed to see that it didn’t quite live up to the enjoyment I got out of Book 1, Moving Target. This is not to say that Running Scared was bad, mind you–it’s just…
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2012 Book Log #5: Unclaimed, by Courtney Milan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars It’s a romance staple to do a series of interconnected books all featuring siblings in the same family, or employees of the same agency, or what have you. Courtney Milan’s Turner series is no exception. And happily, Unclaimed, the second book in the series, turned out to be just…
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2011 Book Log #96: Unveiled, by Courtney Milan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars (Note: I’m posting this review out of order because my next 2012 Book Log post is book 2 of this same series–and I didn’t want to post the review of the second before I posted the review of the first!) I come to Courtney Milan courtesy of the fine…
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2011 Book Log #42: Moving Target, by Elizabeth Lowell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars Moving Target, the first of her Rarities Unlimited series, is perhaps my favorite of all of Elizabeth Lowell’s books. Not because she does anything hugely different in this book that she does from the rest of them, mind you–but more because she happens in this one to mix all…
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 3
My pace on this has, unsurprisingly, slowed now that I’m back at work! But I think a chapter a weekend will do me for a while. Here then is chapter 3!
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2011 Book Log #41: The Secret Sister, by Elizabeth Lowell
My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Secret Sister, published under the name of Elizabeth Lowell, is a reworked version of a novel called The Secret Sisters, published under the name of Ann Maxwell. I haven’t read the original version, but I can safely say that the Lowell version is an acceptable little romantic suspense…
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2012 Book Log #4: Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you’re a fan of old-school romantic suspense, then you cannot go wrong at all with Daphne du Maurier. Especially if you pick up Rebecca, which I was very pleased to finally do. Many of the elements in this book are classically Gothic: the innocent young new bride, the…
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2012 Book Log #3: Dreadful Skin, by Cherie Priest
My rating: 3 of 5 stars If you like werewolves, and you like the Old West, then Cherie Priest’s short story collection Dreadful Skin is a decent way to spend your time. We’ve got three interconnected stories here, featuring the werewolf Jack Gabert and the woman who hunts him, Eileen Callaghan, an Irish ex-nun who’s…
