this is the eighth book in the ‘anita blake: vampire hunter’ series. okay, i’m not even going to try to justify this one. it’s a potboiler. there isn’t much bodice ripping, much of that being replaced with some taught suspense, but this isn’t just a run of the mill vampire story.
i admit i’ve devoured […]

after struggling through the second volume of runciman’s crusades history, i decided to give myself a breather before digging in to tackle the final book. ‘the year 1000′ was a perfect choice. describing the daily life of the english around the turn of the last millennium, i got a much better sense of who some […]

*sigh* so here i go again, making adjustments to my creative life in my eternal search for the flow.
sorry it’s been so long since i’ve posted, btw. just haven’t felt like it lately and haven’t been sure what i would want to write about. anyway, about those changes…
the writing well has dried up again. […]

meh. life is crappy at the moment with occassional lovely bright spots.
headaches, lots of sickness going around (though not my own, i am only a carrier thus far), bits of hormone-induced moodiness. all accompanied by general malaise and lack of creative energy.
i’ll not torture you all with my negative ramblings, so i’m going underground […]

i enjoyed a decadent evening last night. all i did was lay on the couch and read. ah, such luxury!
of course i stayed up a bit too late and that means i’m pretty zonked today. and the weather’s doing wacky things to my head as well, so the pounding and aching is kind of preventing […]