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Book Log #6: Unsolicited, by Julie Kaewert
Unsolicited, the first of Julie Kaewart’s Alex Plumtree series, is a book I’ve actually had for some time and which I had the yen to re-read. Specifically, in print form–since the hero, Alex, is the young owner of a publishing company in London, and it therefore seemed wrong to re-purchase this particular volume in ebook…
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Sunrise over Lake Washington
When I was walking down the hill to the bus stop, the sunrise over the lake was stunningly pretty. There was quite the cloud formation going on over the treeline and the lake, and sunlight was pretty much setting the entire thing on fire. Best of all, it was bouncing off the lake as well…
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Ten pounds less of ME
This morning when I got on the scale I saw a lovely number I hadn’t seen in over a year: 182. Which meant, much to my delight, that I have now hit the 10 pound mark in the great initiative to lose 42 pounds by June! So yeah, thus far the whole LoseIt app on…
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Javascript clues needed!
Hey folks, Smart Bitch Sarah, who y’all may know of as one half of the fine duo of Smart Bitches Trashy Books, has put out a call asking for assistance at Javascript. She needs code that can choose between 3-4 ads with associated URLs, for a mobile app, each time the app is refreshed. Now,…
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Book Log #5: Salvation in Death, by J.D. Robb
At this stage of the In Death series, twenty-seven books in, one of these is as good as another as far as quality goes. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the Eve/Roarke books are formulaic, but there’s something to be said for Nora Roberts being able to maintain a readable formula for…
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Tonight's words for Bone Walker
Not as many as last night’s, but hey, there are words and that’s a good thing. And I do hope these are acceptable words. Mostly, they feature heading into the confrontation between Kendis, Christopher, and the nogitsune! It all worked out to about a page added to the Chapter 7 file, and I’m slowly closing…
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This'll do
More words thrown into Bone Walker tonight, and for once I actually topped the 500 mark. Still in Chapter 7, but now I’ve gotten the nogitsune on camera, and Christopher and Kendis are about to meet another important character to this plot, one of the last few I need to have show up. Tonight also…
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Book Log #4: Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament, by S.G. Browne
If you love you some zombies, especially in a story with a hefty helping of lulz and satire, you can’t do much better than Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament. I had great fun with this one, the story of a man who has come back to life as a zombie following the car accident that killed…
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Book Log #3: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, by Lauren Willig
Oh my, I’m really of two minds about this book. Going into it, even aware that I’d seen some poor reviews of it before, I was hopeful about the prospect of a plot that asserted that the Scarlet Pimpernel had been real and had in fact set off a trend of flower-themed spies during his…
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More serious Avatar thoughts
It occurs to me upon reflection that I had better also address the fact that even if I didn’t care about them as a viewer while I was watching the movie, with my writer hat on, I do need to care about the various tropes that the movie deals with, and why it really would…
