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Fresh-Baked Goodness

Packing up your entire life and moving it to another state is an awful experience. Material items really shouldn’t be that important and yet it’s hard when you have to leave things behind or they get damaged or lost. But … Continue reading

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Fast Reader

Yup, I finished another book: Storm Thief by Chris Wooding. I found this book on the New Fiction shelf of the library’s YA section. Grade: B Storm Thief is a quick and fun read. It has plenty of unique elements, … Continue reading

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Mojito Bandito

I am the Mojito Bandito. It’s true. Leave your mojito unattended and I will steal it. What can I say? Mojitos are yummy. We discovered the mojito on a Caribbean cruise. The cruise itself was not very good, just a … Continue reading

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Who You Calling Fussy?

What a lovely weekend! On Saturday, I did almost nothing, which was quite nice. On Sunday, we went to Providence and had some yummy falafel wrap and hummus. It still amazes me that I eat such things. When I was … Continue reading

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Not Forgotten

I didn’t forget about the Vonnegut Marathon. Not at all. I finished Mother Night on Thursday, but I was too busy on Friday to blog about it. It’s not the kind of book that you read, breezily comment on, and … Continue reading

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Rediscovery

So what am I going to do with this yawn-inspiring book, Rediscovery? It’s part of the popular Darkover series by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Darkover is a fictional world in which the inhabitants have extremely powerful forms of psionic ability, such … Continue reading

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Yawn

I really hate it when characters in books fall asleep and dream. The dream sequences are almost always boring and unnecessary, just the author weakly rehashing the character’s feelings and experiences as a segue to the next action scene. What’s … Continue reading

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Bringer of Rain

I took a long stroll along the shore this afternoon. The sand was soft under my feet. The ocean was so calm and clear that I could see a crab skittering around several feet under water. The sky was a … Continue reading

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Script Scrapped

I think I have to give up on the idea of Script Frenzy this year. With 0 words written and less than two weeks left, it seems like a lost cause. That’s OK. I thought about doing NaNoWriMo in 2005 … Continue reading

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Emphatically Unstressed

I try not to think about my health too often (obsession with one’s state of health is a sure sign of age). But sometimes in the interest of living longer, you have to take a look at what you’ve done, … Continue reading

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