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  • Readux: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman

    Title: The Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy, comprising of An Assembly Such as This, Duty and Desire, and These Three RemainAuthor: Pamela AidanPublished: 2003, 2004, 2005; Wytherngate PressGenre: Historical RomanceDate Started: April 17, 2012  Date Finished: June 7, 2012Worthy of Note: I bought all three books on March 30, 2007, days before I left for my very first flight, my first Read more

  • In Memoriam

    Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together. There is a quote at the bottom of my blog that I have had up for some time now, and which I have posted again Read more

  • A Fan of Fanfiction

    Long before Facebook and Twitter and WordPress, most of my time on the Internet was spent on fanfiction.net. I really can’t recall how I found it in the first place, but it was like stumbling upon a really nerdy oasis, where the cabana boys are all shirtless incarnations of Legolas and we girls not only Read more

  • Shelved

    I started reading The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon. I bought it a year ago at the Grant MacEwan bookstore, when it was the MacEwan Book of the Year. It has sat on my shelf since then, and after 30 pages, that is where it has returned.Most readers, I think, will agree that they read to Read more

  • Readux: American Gods

    Title: American GodsAuthor: Neil GaimanPublished: 2001 (Bantam Spectra)Genre: FantasyDate Started: March 20, 2012  Date Finished: April 16, 2012Worthy of Note: celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2011 with a special “Author’s Preferred Text” edition and a badass audiobook. Shadow had done three years in prison… Being such a massive Neil Gaiman fan, it is quite appalling that Read more

  • So I had a Game of Thrones marathon with…

    My dad.That’s right. Ten hours of televised violence, sex, political scheming, sex, horseback riding, sex, and a helluva lot of names with a man whose biggest exposure to fantasy was dropping me off at the theatre for the sixth time to see Return of the King. It was not a marathon is the strictest sense. Read more