The Fourth Bear

Oh man. The Pippa joke. Not the joke itself. But Jack and Mary's reaction to it. One of the best bits of metahumor I've seen in quite some time. Even the authorial "There was a pause." bit...

Final Book List for the year

Dec 1st: Elizabeth Moon - Winning Colors (I like how the FF address for this uses the English spelling for Colours, even though it has the American spelling on the cover. And how a search by title gets no matches because of this.)

Dec 4th: Raymond E Feist - Flight of the Nighthawks

Dec 5th: Edward Bunker - Dog Eat Dog

Dec 6th: Janet Evanovich - One for the Money
Stephen King - Eyes of the Dragon

Dec 8th: Evanovich - Two for the Dough
Evanovich - Three to Get Deadly

Dec 9th: Evanovich - Four to Score

Dec 10th: Evanovich - High Five
Evanovich - Hot Six

Dec 11th: Glen Cook - Annals of the Black Company

Dec 12th: Evanovich - Seven Up
Evanovich - Hard Eight

Dec 13th: Evanovich - To the Nines

Dec 14th: Nancy Collins - Midnight Blue

Dec 15th: Anne McCaffrey - Harper Hall of Pern
Evanovich - Ten Big Ones

Dec 16th: Evanovich - 11 on Top
Evanovich - Twelve Sharp

Dec 17th: McCaffrey - The Skies of Pern

Dec 19th: Terri Windling/Ellen Datlow (ed) - Black Heart, Ivory Bones

Dec 20th: L. Sprague DeCamp - The Best of L. Sprague DeCamp

Dec 24th: David McCullough - John Adams

Dec 26th: Tamora Pierce - Trickster's Choice

Dec 27th: Pierce - Trickster's Queen

Dec 29th: Alan Dean Foster - Running From the Diety

Dec 30th: Tanya Huff - The Blood Books volume I

Dec 31st: Jasper Fforde - The Fourth Bear

Reflections of Book List meme

Ok, so from what I can recall (and gather from other peoples monthly book lists) the "goal" of this was to read at least 50 books (there might have been a secondary page count thing but I can't recall it). Keeping in mind that I didn't do a list for last January, I hit 50 early in April. Over 11 months I read 246 books. Granted, several were books that were reread over the year. And a few weren't finished because I disliked them. Still whatever the page count total number was supposed to be, I'm pretty sure I smashed it flat. Hell, if I read as LITTLE in January as I did in October or Novemember than I more than quadrupled the total books needed. Part of this is simply that I have more free time than many of the people I saw doing this. I don't go out much beyond gaming. I don't date. I'm not taking classes. And I work nights. Still, thats a lot of books...

Feb: 22, March: 20, April: 24, May: 17, Jun: 22, July: 31, Aug: 29, Sept: 25, Oct: 14, Nov: 14, Dec: 28. Total: 246

Cake?

I need cake.

There is no cake in the house.

There is pie. But I am managing to resist eating it

Which is hard because its apple pie with a caramel crust.

I had a sugar-free pudding snack instead.

It tasted vaguely like pudding and vaguely like chocolate and mostly like the Lack of Cake.

I need chok'lit cake...

Random bits of television

I get Boomerang now? When did that happen?

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Dear Sweet Gay Jeebus. G4 is showing COPS now. Do they just pick their lineup with pages from tv guide and a lawn dart?

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Flipping past HBO while its airing The Producers I catch part of Broderick's "I want to be a producer" song. And the bit where he tells the big-toothed, "ugly" red-haired chorus girl "Not you". You can see how he's just crushed her. Utterly and totally destroyed her. She's struggling not to burst into tears on the spot. And then she just vanishes from the dance sequence. Never have I wanted to punch Broderick in the kidneys more and I saw Project X in the theaters...