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  • So Monday I received a pudding a beautiful present, made of a suitable material, from the Tree herself. Thank you, dear! :D And your card arrived yesterday!By the way, I don't think I ever thanked you for sending those …
  • This is an update.

    Since I have to. I guess. Pith helmets are fantastic. Mine is the honest-to-goodness African explorer look. It's pretty big (the pith is at least 1/2" thick) but incredibly light. For ventilation, there are eyelets…
  • Recent Reading

    Forcing myself to write about the MacLean books has been good for me. (Don't get me wrong; I love to write about MacLean. It's just work, like anything besides reading is, for me, Work.) In some ways PaperBackSwap has…
  • Help? Anybody?

    Last weekend I went to a friends of the library book sale. ($1 HB, 50ยข PB) I struck out spectacularly on everything I was looking for, especially paperbacks. What I did get was a good number of old science fiction ha…
  • Alistair MacLean - Four Reviews

    Although I've been reading MacLean books for years, as I've found them at libraries and used book stores, only three made it into my favorites list. These are The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, and Ice Station Zeb…
  • On Alistair MacLean

    I don't believe I've ever written about Alistair MacLean on here. He is one of my all-time favorite authors, and is the best and only author I've found who gives me exactly what I want in the action/espionage area. He…
  • Book Rambles!

    I finished the remaining Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs last... Thursday or Friday, I think. (#8) Swords of Mars. After a long hiatus, John Carter is back narrating his own adventures. In this case, he looks for tr…
  • We had a few snow flurries on Wednesday (and early Thursday morning), but nothing accumulated so school wasn't canceled. The midterm went off exactly as scheduled, hurrah! The verdict comes down on Monday.When I got home…
  • Reading!

    It's about time I kept track of what I read. I'm quite literally a compulsive reader of fiction. I also read extremely fast. It will be interesting to see what I read as well as the sheer volume. As best as I can remem…
  • What I've Been Reading Lately

    I usually read one book straight through, but for the last month or so I've been reading multiple books at different times. I've been re-reading the old private eye books, in addition to testing a new genre, but to bala…

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