So I’ve been reading a lot of science fiction and fantasy lately. And I continued that trend when I picked up Tolkien’s The Silmarillion. However, it was going a bit slow (I don’t think it is possible to read that book fast), and the heat has been putting me in a lazy yet antsy mood. … More Book Review: Julie and Julia
Although I started this book close to the beginning of the year, I only recently finished reading Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. Mostly because I got really really distracted by lots of other things. I love reading Jane Austen, and though I didn’t enjoy this story quite as much as Pride and Prejudice, I did … More Book Review: Sense and Sensibility
It is a well known fact that Robert Jordan is one of my favorite fantasy authors of all time. So, when he listed some of his favorite authors I sat up and took notice. At books signings he often credited John M. Ford as being his favorite contemporary author, and I have been on the search … More Book Review: The Last Hot Time
I am finally getting around to posting reviews I read in more recent months! I actually read this book while I was at the Roller Skating National Championships, so I finished it at the beginning of August. It was a book my sister had been bugging me to read for months, so I decided it … More Book Review: Neuromancer
Yet another back-logged book review post, this time for a book I finished in early June – Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded by John Scalzi. This book is a collection of posts from his blog (called “Whatever”) from 1998-2008. It covers an interesting assortment of topics, from personal relationships and nerdy interests, to politics and … More Book Review: Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
Continuing in my attempts to get my blogging up to date, I have another book review, this time from a book I finished back in May. It wasn’t a long read – it is a book written for a younger audience – but at this point I am pretty much willing to try any book … More Book Review: The Rithmatist
Ok, I feel a bit bad about taking so long to post this review – I finished this book back in the beginning of March. And I loved it so much that I read the thousand page sequel in just under a week! I have just been so danged busy that I have been rather … More Book Reviews: The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear
I am so behind in my blogging. Life seems even more fast-paced and crazy busy since I graduated, and I just haven’t had the time to document a lot of the exciting goings-on. As I may have mentioned, I have been doing a lot of sewing of skating costumes, which means I have been getting … More Book Review: The History of Love
Since my reading plans have been delayed by the paperback release of the fifth volume of a Song of Ice and Fire series, I am taking a bit of a detour. Not that I don’t already have books stacked to the sky that I want to read, but when a friend offered to lend me … More Book Review: The Gunslinger
I was at a used book store, and while their selection of sewing books was limited (well, nonexistent they had a surprisingly large collection of books on textile production.  Being trained as a scientist and a known fabric junkie, I couldn’t pass up a book that contains both molecule line drawings and descriptions of how embossed fabrics are … More Awesome Book Finds
Doctor T Designs 