Jun. 1st, 2007
Friday Poll: Just Negotiating the Price
Jun. 1st, 2007 03:16 am[Poll #995217]
*sigh*
I wish there was a way to edit polls. That last line choice should be "None, because my pride and self-worth are more valuable than mere monetary blandishments"...
*sigh*
I wish there was a way to edit polls. That last line choice should be "None, because my pride and self-worth are more valuable than mere monetary blandishments"...
May Book List
Jun. 1st, 2007 04:47 pmMay 2nd: Kim Harrison - For a Few Demons More: 4th book in the Hollows series; with Rachel Morgan, freelance Witch, and her partners continue to work around the various demons, vampires and other supernatural politics looking to do them in...
May 6th: John Kessel - Good News From Outer Space: Civilization-on-the-brink cyberpunk book, with a televengelist looking to kickstart the Rapture and a wandering alien wandering in and out of people's lives...
May 9th: C.E. Murphy - Coyote Dreams: 3rd in Murphy's Walker Papers series. Officer Walker has to deal with a plague of comatose victims amidst her friends and fellow cops, caused by a rampaging Native American god. Plus her jealousies over her Lieutenant's girlfriend...
May 10th: Dean Koontz - Watchers: Genius dog and his owners vs. genecrafted
monster vs. crazy hitman vs. NSA...
May 11th: Steven Brust - Agyar: A 1st person vampire story about love and obsession and personal freedom...
May 12th: Tamora Pierce - Beka Cooper - Terrier: Rookie cop story set in a fantasy setting. Set in the past of Pierce's Tortall series...
May 14th: Charlaine Harris - Grave Surprise: 2nd Harper Connelly book, a
murder mystery about Connelly a psychic who can sense dead bodies thanks to a lightning strike and read part of their death and life...
May 15th: Harris - All Together Dead: Latest in Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series. Telepath Sookie is hired by the leader of the Louisiana vamps to go to a conferance of vampire leaders in the US. Set in the aftermath of Katrina...
May 16th: Pierce - Alanna: the First Adventure: First book in the Lioness
Quartet. Alanna masquerades as her brother to train as a knight...
May 17th: Pierce - In the Hand of the Goddess: 2nd Lioness book. Alanna continues to train as a knight and cope with the machinations of the King's magician cousin...
May 18th: Pierce - The Woman Who Rides Like a Man: 3rd Lioness book. Alanna, no longer masquerading as a boy, goes to live with the desert nomads and help them integrate more fully into the kingdom of Tortall...
May 19th: Pierce - Lioness Rampant: Final Lioness book. Alanna quests for the Dominion Jewel and her wizard brother foolishly resurects an old enemy...
May 20th: Jane Lindskold - Wolf's Blood: Final book in the Noble Beasts series. Firekeeper and her allies fight a war over the Gateways and seek a cure for the plague that destroyed the Old World empire of mages and now threatens the New World again...
May 22nd: Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light: Science fiction story mixed with Hindu mythology and Buddahism...
May 23rd: A. Lee Martinez - Gil's All Fright Diner: A buddy story where a white trash werewolf and vampire have to stop the destruction of the world...
May 25th: Steven Gould - Reflex: A sequel to Gould's Jumper, about the world's only teleport. Except it seems he's no longer unique...
Steve Hamilton - A Stolen Season: Most recent Alex McKnight story. Ex-cop Alex helps rescue a group from a boat crash and gets drawn into a confrontation with smugglers on the US/Canadian border...
May 29th: Lloyd Alexander - The Prydain Chronicles: The late Alexander's classic fantasy series loosely based around Welsh mythology about Taran, Assistant Pig Keeper...
May 30th: Robert B Parker - Playmates: Parker's detective Spenser gets hired
to investigate point shaving on college basketball team. And then has to deal with the team's star player, stubborn coach and some gangsters from back east...
Total books: 19
May 6th: John Kessel - Good News From Outer Space: Civilization-on-the-brink cyberpunk book, with a televengelist looking to kickstart the Rapture and a wandering alien wandering in and out of people's lives...
May 9th: C.E. Murphy - Coyote Dreams: 3rd in Murphy's Walker Papers series. Officer Walker has to deal with a plague of comatose victims amidst her friends and fellow cops, caused by a rampaging Native American god. Plus her jealousies over her Lieutenant's girlfriend...
May 10th: Dean Koontz - Watchers: Genius dog and his owners vs. genecrafted
monster vs. crazy hitman vs. NSA...
May 11th: Steven Brust - Agyar: A 1st person vampire story about love and obsession and personal freedom...
May 12th: Tamora Pierce - Beka Cooper - Terrier: Rookie cop story set in a fantasy setting. Set in the past of Pierce's Tortall series...
May 14th: Charlaine Harris - Grave Surprise: 2nd Harper Connelly book, a
murder mystery about Connelly a psychic who can sense dead bodies thanks to a lightning strike and read part of their death and life...
May 15th: Harris - All Together Dead: Latest in Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series. Telepath Sookie is hired by the leader of the Louisiana vamps to go to a conferance of vampire leaders in the US. Set in the aftermath of Katrina...
May 16th: Pierce - Alanna: the First Adventure: First book in the Lioness
Quartet. Alanna masquerades as her brother to train as a knight...
May 17th: Pierce - In the Hand of the Goddess: 2nd Lioness book. Alanna continues to train as a knight and cope with the machinations of the King's magician cousin...
May 18th: Pierce - The Woman Who Rides Like a Man: 3rd Lioness book. Alanna, no longer masquerading as a boy, goes to live with the desert nomads and help them integrate more fully into the kingdom of Tortall...
May 19th: Pierce - Lioness Rampant: Final Lioness book. Alanna quests for the Dominion Jewel and her wizard brother foolishly resurects an old enemy...
May 20th: Jane Lindskold - Wolf's Blood: Final book in the Noble Beasts series. Firekeeper and her allies fight a war over the Gateways and seek a cure for the plague that destroyed the Old World empire of mages and now threatens the New World again...
May 22nd: Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light: Science fiction story mixed with Hindu mythology and Buddahism...
May 23rd: A. Lee Martinez - Gil's All Fright Diner: A buddy story where a white trash werewolf and vampire have to stop the destruction of the world...
May 25th: Steven Gould - Reflex: A sequel to Gould's Jumper, about the world's only teleport. Except it seems he's no longer unique...
Steve Hamilton - A Stolen Season: Most recent Alex McKnight story. Ex-cop Alex helps rescue a group from a boat crash and gets drawn into a confrontation with smugglers on the US/Canadian border...
May 29th: Lloyd Alexander - The Prydain Chronicles: The late Alexander's classic fantasy series loosely based around Welsh mythology about Taran, Assistant Pig Keeper...
May 30th: Robert B Parker - Playmates: Parker's detective Spenser gets hired
to investigate point shaving on college basketball team. And then has to deal with the team's star player, stubborn coach and some gangsters from back east...
Total books: 19
The Eternal Struggle Against Food
Jun. 1st, 2007 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zoethe fullys nails down the difficulty in controlling your eating. She's a stronger person than me, in that she manages stay with diet and exercise programs. I'll last for a few days, maybe a few weeks, and then its a struggle to start all over again after falling off the wagon...