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Book Log #46: Goblin War, by Jim C. Hines
‘s third Jig the Goblin book, Goblin War rounds out the trilogy quite nicely. In this final installment, we’ve got a strong callback to book one as Princess Genevieve, the sister of the princes who’d hunted the Rod of Creation, has been ordered by her father to recover that artifact herself. And if that wasn’t…
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The final portion of the Weekend of Great Big Awesome
I would be quite remiss if I didn’t post about the fun , , , , and I have been having putting together the audio track for our contribution to the GBS contest in progress! And by “audio track” I mean “actual audio track”, not just whatever audio Dara’s digital camera might pick up. Dara’s…
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Speaking of the guitar pick of awesomeness
There’s a ridiculous amount of fangirly glee I can get out of something as simple as a well-used guitar pick! I am not a professional guitarist by any stretch of the imagination; I’m barely at the level of competent amateur, really, and then only because I can play decent rhythm on a small set of…
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Great Big Sea at the Woodland Park Zoo, 7/29/2010
There’s only one thing really that could have kept me from writing this up in a timely fashion–and that’s the simple fact that I’ve been working all weekend with on our entry for the Great Big Karaoke Contest! But I assure you, I’m still in a warm and fuzzy afterglow from Thursday’s awesome show. This…
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Brief pictorial teaser
I didn’t get too many pics during the show since I’m still learning the fine art of how to do a picture on the iPhone that doesn’t suck–and then how to actually save it in the best possible format. However, I’m pretty happy with this one of my B’ys! As you can see I wasn’t…
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Well THAT was Great Big Fun
Just got back from the zoo, you guys! Picoreview: delightful as always, especially up in the dancing area surrounded by fellow OKPers and other people ready, willing, and able to bounce like crazy along with our B’ys. Huge shoutouts to , , , , her spouse Clint whose LJ I still can’t remember, , ,…
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Is this plan awesome or what?
Today’s Excellent Plan of Excellence: Go to store Get moneys Purchase tasty things Bring them home and load them up in the cooler Go to zoo with and Rendezvous at the zoo with and the children Look at critters for a couple of hours Join the ZooTunes line at 4pm Commence fangirling, general bouncing, and…
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How to get around a New Book Buying Hiatus
Download free ebooks, of course! First up, Kay Kenyon has a book currently available for free on the Kindle: Bright of the Sky, the first book of her Entire and the Rose quartet. I am not a Kindle owner, but I do have the Kindle app on my iPhone, so I figured what the heck,…
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The Murknet is back
Awesome, turned out that the power came back online shortly after , , and I set out to attend a nice little afternoon barbecue over at ‘s place! Paul and I are home from that now and I’ve brought the servers back online, so things should be returning to normal on the Murk. For the…
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Vacation Reads–Week 4
As promised, here’s my contribution to the Vacation Reads promotion! These are this weekend’s slate of recommended titles, and again, I encourage you all to go visit the master site for leads on other things you’ll hopefully enjoy reading! THE BLOODGATE GUARDIAN by Joely Sue Burkhart Worlds within worlds await through the Maya Bloodgate…. Dr.…
