Spring break is thankfully on the horizon, a little over one week away. I need it. While I love college (seriously), a brief respite from reading schedules, paper deadlines, and other such things is always welcome. The weather has been getting increasingly nicer, and that coupled with lots of bird singing has been making me [...]
Reading
Call Me A Bibliophile – A Meme
Edrei tagged me with this meme, and it revolving around books, I’m happy to oblige. Without further ado:
Do you remember how you developed a love for reading?
No, not really. Basically, as far back as my memory goes, I remember reading. As I’ve gotten older, the obsession love has grown. The idea of not reading baffles [...]
Writers: Just Use “Said”, Please!
Shortly after the end of spring semester, I started getting the fantasy itch – after all of the nonfiction reading I’d been doing, I needed something with orcs, elves, and swords. Along with installing Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate 2 on my PC, I picked up some books that take place in the Forgotten Realms [...]
Google Maps and the Isle of Lindisfarne
Earlier today I was reading some of Magnus Magnusson’s Scotland: Story of a Nation, which led me off on a bit of a peculiar web path. In the text, Lindisfarne Island was mentioned a few times, which is the site of the first Viking Age invasion in England. They attacked on June 8th of 793AD, [...]
Mort
Book title: Mort
Author: Terry Pratchett
Originally published: 1987
I finished reading Mort a couple of days ago, and perhaps the way to best indicate how much I enjoyed it is to say that I’ve already requested Reaper Man, book 2 in the Death series. I had a lot of fun reading this one.
The book focuses in on [...]
