I finished Stardust recently. It was a pretty good story. Full of adventures and such. I’m not often that into fantasy stories set in middle-earth type times but I still enjoyed it. I like that it wasn’t some giant, epic Lord of the Rings-type story. Oh sure, there are grand things going on while the [...]

The new Matthew Good album, Hospital Music, came out at midnight tonight (aka, right on the 31st) on the iTunes music store and I grabbed it right away. Upon first listen, it is quite excellent.
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I finished reading Hybrids a little while ago and it was alright. Not as good as the first book of [...]

A lot of the time when I’m looking for new books to buy, I look for ones I haven’t read by authors I already know I like. It seems the safer choice.
It was perhaps three months ago when I was in a Chapters last and I picked up a couple Neil Gaiman books I hadn’t [...]

I had been reading American Gods for the past while and I finally finished it the other day. Looking back, it was a damn cool story but at the time, it was generally pretty slow. But then, it had to be - that was the way the story went!
So it was slow, yes, but it [...]

I started into American Gods last night when I got home from Dennis’ and just kept reading. I had no idea what it was about, just that it was by Neil Gaiman and so I should read it. I like approaching books with no idea what they’re about.
On our way to Dennis’ last night, Jamie [...]

Duke Nukem Forever was announced 10 years ago today. Here’s hoping 3D Realms finishes it before I get arthritis or something.
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Jamie picked me up after work and we went over to Dennis’ to play on his 360. We started out with Fusion Frenzy 2, then moved on to Gears of War and ended with [...]

Talked with a girl named Carmelina at work today. That was… uneventful.
I also finished reading Chuck Palahniuk’s Diary. The last page honestly gave me chills up my spine.
It was quite excellent. Took a few chapters for me to fully get the way in which the story was being told and took maybe a third of [...]

I finished Coraline yesterday. It’s a children’s story (begun as a story for the author’s daughter) so it wasn’t a long read. Excellent book though. Pretty creepy - I think it would scare children, but then I liked being scared as a child.
At the end of the book there are a few pages of extras [...]

Laura’s cousin Rachel and sister Katelyn went to Mexico for reading week. They arrived back yesterday and today the three of them wanted time for just the three of them.
So I went and did the grocery shopping and then spent the rest of the afternoon finishing another chapter in Hotel Dusk, reading about the (Doctor [...]

My trainer at work has 14 pairs of glasses - have I mentioned that? There’s not much else to say today so I’ll go with that.

I finished Hominids today. Such a damn cool book. I wasn’t expecting to want to read the 2nd or 3rd books in the series right away but the way it [...]