I've got way too much on my plate right now. Need to focus and get something finished. Currently reading: Frank Sheed's Theology and Sanity (a wonderful and witty read so far), Vision: The Life and Music of Hildegard von Bingen by various people (at least one of which I'm very skeptical about given his general flakiness and shoddy scholarship), Ben Mikaelsen's Touching Spirit Bear (the next book I'm teaching to my 8th graders), John Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (almost done!), and Andrea White's Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 (which isn't proving to be very well written). With my son, I'm reading Dean Koontz's The Good Guy (an excellent story by a genre fiction writer who transcends his genre).
Just finished up Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology. Next up on the docket is Grandes Horizontales : The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans, an intriguing sounding volume on many levels.
__________________ Jack, you have debauched my sloth.
Currently re-reading Weber's Honorverse books. The last of Bujold's Sharing Knife books hits hardcover and the last of Moon's Vatta's War books hits paperback at the end of the month, though, so I re-read those series last month.
Andy the originator, Mega the drama queen, Mania the insane, Al whom uses movie quotes to connect with the world he did not create, Ugh- primal urges and the only sane one of the group and DarkMania the Sith Lord
Lovin' the four 'B's of life- Beer, Babes, Buffets and Bombs. just being funny
I have set aside "Twenty Years After" indefinately. I just couldn't maintain any enthusiasm for it.
As the New Year began, I was reading "Excelsior: Forged in Fire", a Star Trek novel that claimed to be about how Sulu gained captaincy of the Excelsior, but which was really about the adventures of Curzon Dax with the three Klingon captains. It wasn't bad, as Star Trek novels go, but suffered for not properly resolving its story - the end of the tale is covered in the DS9 series.
I'm now reading "Moonraker", the third James Bond novel. It's good. I should finish that tonight.
Next up is "A Sword From Red Ice" by J.V. Jones. I enjoyed the first two books in the trilogy, but I'm a bit concerned that it has been so long - will I still be able to follow what's going on?
Also, at some point I need to refamiliarise myself with "Star Wars: Saga Edition" - we're starting a new campaign this month.
After reading Alas, Babylon last month, I picked up The Postman by David Brin to read earlier this week. It's interesting how close the movie was to the source material, especially considering that the folks who finally made the movie used ideas from the book not knowing that the script writers years before had in fact deviated from that very book.
Also, One Who Walked Alone, Robert E. Howard: The Final Years by Novalyne Price Ellis. This book stands apart from the other REH biographies in that it is actually more of a recounting of Ms. Ellis' relationship with Bob Howard in the last two years of his life, done via the journals that she kept at the time to practice her writing skills. It is most tragic to realize that, had their relationship been able to move forward it may (or may not) have given REH something to hold onto when he was told that his mother was in her last days. More tragic is that considering that she put the book together in the early/mid eighties and did not pass until 1999... Robert Howard could very well have lived and wrote for another 50 years or more, well into most of our lifetimes.
R.I.P. Robert Ervin Howard and Novalyne Price Ellis.
The root of intolerance against RPG players by some Christians is ignorance. The root of intolerance against Christians by some RPG players is ignorance. It's part of being human, but it's still good practice to not fall into the same behaviour one condemns.
_________________ Looking for a Cthulhu game in Houston.
I love this holiday break as I can usually get several books read during the two weeks off from work. I finished The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather, Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War by Kaveh Farrokh, and The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart.
On the nightstand now is Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union and Julius Ceasar's The Gallic War.
__________________ Resources utilized in my last game: Nothing, I'm taking an RPG break.
Game Night by Jonny Nexus and I'm enjoying it a lot so far, even though the pterry influence is very obvious. Which isn't a bad thing really, but it makes me think "oh that sounds familiar" occasionally. Despite this I would still say that the overall style is pretty original and I like where the story is heading right now.
__________________ Vecna is contributing in many ways to the world community.
"I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you." - Batman, Batman Begins "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight "Yeah, I can fly." - Tony Stark, Iron Man
Inside my hands these petals browned;
dried up falling to the ground,
but it was already too late now.
I pushed my fingers through the earth,
returned this flower to the dirt;
so it could live, I walked away now."
Rise Against - "The Good Left Undone"
just being funny 
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