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Late Addendum

November 5, 2011Patrick 2 Comments

Front page reader A Teacher is participating in NaNoWriMo. You should check the results out.  Here.

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Library!

October 27, 2011Patrick 4 Comments

Today’s Free Thursday is undoubtedly known by all here… but the Free Thursday posts are after all not just for us, they are for the world. Looking for something to read? Project Gutenberg has about 36,000 free ebooks available for… Continue Reading →

books, Free Thursdays

Book Review: Fuzzy Nation

September 23, 2011Patrick 12 Comments

I’m talking about John Scalzi’s reboot of H. Beam Piper’s classic SF novel, Little Fuzzy. For context, I haven’t read Old Man’s War, his Hugo nominee, or anything else by Scalzi and I love H. Beam Piper. So I was… Continue Reading →

books, Reviews

Death To All Who Oppose Us! And Everybody Else.

September 21, 2011Patrick 4 Comments

This week’s Free Thursdays offering is kind of not. The Machine of Death web site, wherein you can download a Creative Commons copy of the short story collection for free. A second edition is in the works. You can buy… Continue Reading →

books, Free Thursdays

Retrospection

August 26, 2011Patrick 13 Comments

The following post contains some minor spoilers for the series of Conan stories, not the movie.  If you’ve never read them, and you want to go in fresh, don’t go under the fold.

books, movies

T-Minus 100, and Counting

August 18, 2011Patrick 80 Comments

My elder sister has requested that I write a blog post about this. One ought to always show respect to one’s elders, so here it goes.  This is long, and it doesn’t break up well for the front page, so… Continue Reading →

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Germany!

July 26, 2011Jaybird 13 Comments

I think that this is the first blind recommendation I’ve done here. That’s right, this week we’re going to recommend the Latest in the Harry Dresden series: Now, I know, Dance with Dragons came out a mere two weeks ago.… Continue Reading →

books, recommendations

Sunday!

February 27, 2011Jaybird 9 Comments

So… what are you reading? Or, I suppose, what are you watching? I just finished reading Jim Butcher’s _Side Jobs_, a collection of Harry Dresden short stories, in anticipation for the… let me google it… July (IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE… Continue Reading →

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