As I may have mentioned, I have been recovering from the flu, and thus have been reading a way more than normal. I hadn’t the focus for anything too drawn out or too serious, so I thought I would pick up an old Sword & Laser book pick – Down and Out in the Magic … More Book Review: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
It is probably all too obvious based on the number of recent book review posts that I am dealing with the flu. Which was fine during the Olympics – online replays left me thoroughly entertained – but afterwards I turned to my big stack o’ books to fill the hours. It is one of those … More Book Review: The Lies of Locke Lamora
When The Hunger Games first came out I was interested – I had heard a lot of favorable reviews on the internet. So I picked it up and looked at the cover description in a bookstore and was immediately incensed. Unfortunately for Suzanne Collins, I had just finished reading Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, which I obsessively loved, … More Book Review: The Hunger Games Trilogy
One of my reading goals for this year is to keep up with the Sword & Laser book club picks, in the hopes that I can find fantastic new fantasy and sci fi authors, and read more diverse picks from the genre. The February book pick was A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. … More Book Review: A Wizard of Earthsea
I have been reading George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series for quite a while now, and I am happy to finally be caught up with the main books in the series. I was gifted the pre-ordered paperback of A Dance with Dragons back when the release date was significantly earlier than it … More Book Review: A Dance with Dragons
Normally I don’t set out reading goals like I do for sewing and skating. Reading has always been fun, and I never want to make it feel like a task. Last year, however, my friend took me to a Geek & Sundry panel at WonderCon (a comics/general nerdiness convention), wherein I found The Sword & … More Book Review: The Einstein Intersection
I have more than a few holiday posts to get up, but it has become my yearly tradition to spend the last few days of the year doing a review of all of the topics I have been covering on my blog. Â Reading, skating, Burda, and sewing reviews, as well as plans for the upcoming … More Reading Round Up 2013
I have been a big fan of The Skating Lesson – a vlog that covers the latest news and gossip in the ice skating world – since it first got started. It has been a great way to keep abreast of figure skating news with minimal effort, and it is refreshing to hear about the … More Book Review: The Second Mark
I have been planning to sew jackets for a while, and when the lined jacket contest being run on Pattern Review convinced me to move around the projects in my queue. Though I have made a few coats in my time, I thought it would be good to read through Tailoring: The Classic Guide to … More Book Review: Tailoring: The Classic Guide to Sewing the Perfect Jacket
Tamora Pierce is an author I have been reading since I was eleven years old. I realize I have somewhat grown out of the target age group for her writing, but I continue to read her books anyway, because I enjoy seeing what happens in the worlds I loved so much as I was growing … More Book Review: Tortall and Other Lands
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