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I am moving to ZOTERO https://www.zotero.org/

LSLily is my name

Stephen Baxter does these awesome afterwards about his research. Gotten a lot of nonfiction from him and his extensive reading shows. He's paralleled or extensively thought through every detail that goes into this iron-age glacially dominated era. In this version, Jesus doesn't die in his thirties and Christianity's influence spread in a much different way. But I think I'm missing a lot of historian in-jokes.

I think someone complained about how these books always have more mysteries than solutions in them, so Lemony Snicket was all "fine then" and wrote a book with more solutions than mysteries WHICH IS WAY MORE FRUSTRATINGLY MYSTERIOUS. "Frustratingly" is a word which here means "we should all emulate Daniel Handler because of how well he handles Snicket's case files to provoke reader reactions"

THERE BETTER BE SOME ANSWERS IN HERE

GEORGE RR MARTIN YOU MAGNIFICENT BLOODY BLUFFING BASTARD

AGH GEORGE YOU'RE KILLING ME WITH THIS NARRATOR SWITCHING YOU MAGNIFICENT CLIFFHANGING BASTARD.

AGH GEORGE YOU'RE KILLING ME WITH THIS NARRATOR SWITCHING YOU MAGNIFICENT CLIFFHANGING BASTARD.

Must find knowledgable mushroom person to go through the field guide in a rainforest in the fall.

Put it down for a while because it was a beautiful dark perfect downer, but taken up again with anticipation, and a distraction.

"Any west-to-east traverse of the Olympics or Cascades drives home the real picture of depth and intricate contour along the route traveled.
The skirts of the two great ranges billow out east and west for many miles and are pleated into folds that define major drainage patterns."

Very dense and slow-going, because it is SO thorough. Excellent resource and history.

Joyous rereads thus far: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake sequel MaddAddam, Chimamanda Adichi's Americanah, Sherman Alexie's Ten Little Indians, Terry Pratchett's Snuff, Buffy Season 9 graphic novels.

Tonight's gonna be so good.

I really hate it when I get a slow book from the library, because it's due before I'm done and then I usually forget to pick up the book for another couple years. This one will keep me coming back though.

This reading is going slowly because it is too interesting: I make it a couple pages then become so excited that I have to take a joyful squealing break and then consider All of Science (full hard-soft spectrum plus communication/practical application strategies) for 20 minutes or so before getting back to it. And the cycle repeats.

reading this while occassionally moseying to The Science of Discworld, I am incoherent with delight due to understanding things and clever physics/astronomy jokes...that I also understand (rather newly)

Now I understand the reason for the Uncertainty Principle. All things are greatly simplified if there are tigers in the analogy.

Facing the fact at last that this is *not* a bedtime read. Poetry this cerebral (and if not cerebral then disturbing) doesn't lend itself to sleepytime.

List of Words Encountered (incomplete) -lagniappe -purdah

I'M NOT CRYING I HAVE THE EPIDEMIC IN MY EYE

NOPE NOPE TIME FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS WITH PUPPIES, FLOWERS, AND SUCH, AND TURNING ON ALL THE LIGHTS AND MAKING HOT CHOCOLATE AND NEVER CLOSING MY EYES AGAIN

guess I'll start my next audiobook while I get ready for bed. oh, stephen king! guess I'll lie here under the covers, since the monster cruel metaphor dragon and/or penis is waiting

recently learned this sequel came out and had no choice but to dive into a delicious reread of #s 1 and 2 and now am seeing portents of doom everywhere quick everyone recycle before we get ebola and diiiiiiiiiiiiie of pollution from diet coke toxins jk actually not k oh well at least I made it to age 28 and embraced millenialism by touchscreen typing this status update without capital letters or punctuation gtg ttyl

I love this. I love it so much I am afraid to keep reading; I so badly want good things for all these characters and the world is such that their struggles will not go away. And I also want this book to never end because I want to hang out and get to know everyone. Probable consequence is an immediate reread.

I was hooked on or around page 1.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
It fits so nice in my hands.

I got halfway through "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and then got so bored I looked it up to see if there was some sort of clever contemporary deal I was missing. Not really--as explained, the story is pretty much Poe ranting about how much the media screws up when rushing to report on and make a sensation about crimes. That's cool, EAP--I totally agree. And I'm skipping the rest of your boring story.

Having an excellent time with rereading: Mary Doria Russell, Terry Pratchett, David Rakoff, Irvine Welsh.

Also, Janet Evanovich writes pretty decent cake, though sometimes the frosting ruins it for me (set it in modern times, please, your prose does not stand up to more, you know I love you anyway though)