The Universe Is Conspiring For Me This Time

One of the carrots I dangled in front of myself during NaNoWriMo–besides the warm-fuzzy of self-discipline and focus–was that when I was done I could dive into Susan Wiggs‘ Lakeshore Christmas on my Kindle. Her books are always my go-to reading when I either need complete escape or total reward. I figured that after the [...]

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That Bloody Gap Ad & The War On Christmas

This is a blog post I should not be writing, but my brain needs to take a break. I have really had less than no patience with this whole War On Christmas business for the last couple of years. Over on Facebook I have gotten a slap dozen requests asking me to join this or [...]

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Kat O’ Nine Tales

If I had to list my worst traits, right at the top of that long recounting you would see “poor self-discipline.” When I was a kid I was the sort of nerdy awful child who got As in school without trying. Until about sixth grade, when I started to hit classes that required the dreaded [...]

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YIKES!

It’s technically Thanksgiving when I write this, but I don’t want anyone to stumble on here and get mad at me for posting such self-serving weirdness (different from every other day how?) on the holiday, so I’m post-dating it. After the fiasco with Rapunzel’s off-putting photo from the other day I’m not posting any of [...]

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Love. Pure Book-Geek Love.

I’ve been ripping on book trailers lately. Because they’re odd. Really. But this? This is a thing of unparalleled beauty. Check it out. Hat Tip: Gizmodo by way of my quasi-anonymous-on-the-web spouse.

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Calvinism Forces Me To Think About Time Travel

As I said on Twitter, I do my best thinking in the shower. But I usually take baths. Anyway, today I was in the shower and I was mulling over the one verse in the Bible that always gives me trouble when it comes to Calvinism. If you wanna read more, jump on in. If [...]

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It’s Not Like I’m Out Of Ideas. I’m Just Succumbing To Peer Pressure.

Since I’m three thousand words behind on NaNo, this is going to be a quick post. I was going to write the standard ‘things I’m thankful for’ post, but in all reality if I started to list the things for which I am thankful it would be like that one television commercial where they guy [...]

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Ooooh, Shiny!

1. I called and reported the nurse. Now every time I go back I’m gonna get roundly abused. Oh well. 2. Yes, I’m supposed to be writing. And while this is writing, it’s not Writing writing. Eh. 3. Meet my lovely pet Rapunzel. (warning: She’s a spider)

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Random Things I Need To Get Off My Chest

1. Jonathan Safron Foer can kiss my meat-fed butt. But I will give him credit for ONE thing. He has been able to artfully combine TWO types of people that make me wish I could still pull a trigger with ease. You know that post I just wrote about demystifying The Book? Well, JSF is [...]

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Knocking Books Off Their High Horse

If there’s one thing this month has taught me, it’s that I’ve spent too much of my life idolizing books. Not in the “Oh, I really like books” way, but in the “books are EVERYTHING to me” way that is the road to danger. Not only does the idolising of books really screw up my [...]

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