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Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 7:28 pm (Uncategorized) (anime, books 2010, Fables, Nancy Bartholomew)
8. Drag Strip – Nancy Bartholomew
9. Film Strip – Nancy Bartholomew
10. Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd – Anthology
11. Strip Poker – Nancy Bartholomew
So, finished off the Sierra Lavotini series. Last book ends by opening up some juicy new plot threads, then I go online and learn that the publisher doesn’t want to continue the series, which is not to say that the author feels the same. If she had her way, she’d definitely continue, which is something, at least. Ugh.
Geektastic is an anthology of nerdy stories for young adults. Twas a Christmas present from one of my very best friends (Luff you!), so it was started in December and finished the other day. I so enjoyed it, and I think there’s a wide enough variety of stories that most any geek would enjoy it too.
I finished this batch a little later than I expected, in part due to the semester starting and me having to get to sleep at a reasonable hour (I do my best reading in the middle of the night), but also largely due to me finishing off watching Red Garden and catching up on Fables. Nothing like anime and comics to recharge after all the paper-cut making prose books. That’s right. Last week I got about six papercuts in two days.
Next on the agenda are the last two Harper Connelly books, but there’s a twist. My web design 2 project is going to be sort of an encyclopedia site for those books, so I expect to be reading and rereading these all semester. Also, the young adult section of my library finally reopened after remodeling, so I’ve picked up a couple of books that I may end up reading first. Who knows.
I’ve also got about a dozen more chapters of Fables and the entirety of Jack of Fables to catch up on, and a few new DVD sets of anime to watch. A Suncoast near us has been having a massive liquidating sale, so everything was 50% or more off.
Going to be busy busy busy!
Started two new mystery series
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 11:33 pm (Uncategorized) (books 2010, Charlaine Harris, Diablo, Nancy Bartholomew, Pamela Klaffke)
Finished some more since the last update. A few of these were of the can’t-put-it-down variety (not because I just had to know what comes next, but because reading about ghosts at 4am means I’m not going to be falling asleep anyway), and so were finished in just a couple of sessions.
4. The Miracle Strip – Nancy Bartholomew
5. Grave Sight – Charlaine Harris
6. Grave Surprise – Charlaine Harris
7. Snapped – Pamela Klaffke
#4 is about Sierra Lavotini, crime solving stripper. Yes. Today I picked up the rest of the series.
#5-6 are the first two Harper Connelly mysteries by the author of the Southern Vampires/Sookie Stackhouse/Trueblood books. I read those last year. Turns out I’m far dorkier than I thought because in both books, I predicted the killer and most of the motive fairly early on.
#7 is about a style guru who meets her midlife crisis. A bit more vulgar than I expected, but fascinating and terrifying like a trainwreck. It also caused quite a bit of anger/depression in me this afternoon. Quite odd.
Next on the list will be the next three Sierra Lavotini books, then the next two Harper Connelly. After that I hope to finish a few things that I started sometime in 2009 and just left hanging. Semester starts tomorrow (technically today, but day classes were canceled due to power outages – finally, a bright side to the week of rain), so the next update probably won’t be for a week or more.
In other news, I got my younger brother playing Diablo I. I played it again myself, too. I’d forgotten how it ended, so afterwards I felt like such a chump.
Goober Golf 