onefinemess | January 30, 2010
Are urban fantasy covers “ruining” it? Rendering it trashier? And keep in mind I ask this as a writer of UF.
I put “ruining” in quotes because well, it’s all relative isn’t it…?
So, am I getting at?
Well, let’s start with an illustration. I picked out four books, somewhat at random, on my last trip into a [...]
onefinemess | January 27, 2010
It should be obvious by now that I’m reading these two series in tandem. The enjoyment I’m drawing from one helps me plod through brief sojourns with the other in the interim. Almost like it’s WORK!
Small Favor (Dresden Files 10)
by: Jim Butcher
This series just keeps getting better. The entanglement levels of the various A & [...]
onefinemess | January 20, 2010
Proven Guilty (Dresden Files #8)
by: Jim Butcher
I think I mentioned in my last review how the series had hit another roadmark with the last book, and it’s good to see that Butcher hasn’t slipped on the quality level yet. I wasn’t particularly intrigued by the main plot’s setting – a horror convention under attack from [...]
onefinemess | January 17, 2010
So, here’s the pile I’ve got to start off my year. Albeit not in pile form. I assume you can do the mental rotations and stacking, should you require that format to be suitably amused.
Except for that book on the far left (Sorceror’s Apprentice. I only paid a $1 for it…and may finish it someday), [...]
onefinemess | January 14, 2010
Dead Beat (Dresden Files #7)
by: Jim Butcher
I wish I’d written this review closer to the time when I finished, as I had some rather strong opinions about it at that point ….aaannnnnd I pretty much can’t remember them right now. Still, it’s time to move this downstairs, so the spice… err review must flow!
I think [...]
onefinemess | January 11, 2010
and it’s not even flash-crap tastic!
It does use Adobe Air for the basic client interface, which I’ve found to run poorly on my monster of a laptop – especially when a web browser is open (and visible – this is critical apparently) at the same time – but this is really minor.
If you enjoyed the [...]
onefinemess | January 8, 2010
I read a bought a few more books last year than I did cds…what can I say, they are 1/3 the price and oh, right, books are awesome.
I don’t have the energy to manually link to the reviews – I probably reviewed most of them. For the sake of having a link to brandish, here’s [...]
onefinemess | January 7, 2010
(Dresden Files books 4 & 5)
both by: Jim Butcher
I read these on the trip but couldn’t get the time to post a review. Trying to do so before I forget much more of them (yes, I do forget books *that* fast).
I’m just going to cluster them together, since the series is basically one big, long [...]
onefinemess | January 5, 2010
…we’re home!
(Pretend I’m posting this at 6am on Sunday the 3rd).
So. Yeah, our (mini) epic (for us) road trip has come and gone, and we survived. Thrived maybe? Even? Too much? Yeah, probably. But we did ok.
We left at about 8:45pm for the trip down & arrived in Sac around 7am I think. We stopped [...]
onefinemess | January 4, 2010
January! You know what that means for bloggers: LISTS! I’m not lame enough to do a “best of my posts” post (or ten) – lucky for you right? BUT, there are plenty of other last-year-related things to make lists out of. So here’s the first.
You can see how much I cut back on album purchases [...]
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