I want to be excited but after reading this part: "that those best and brightest are also some of the Commonwealth's most twisted sociopath" all I am is reminded that I've been itching to re-read Blindsight. However, as I am also looking for new space opera that doesn't involve being attacked by Von Neumann machines,…

Glasshouse is my favorite of his (and quite possibly the only one of his I've ever truly liked)) and I've tried lots, so I definitely understand.

I am going to try to only get Ghost Story and Vortex, but I don't think that resolution will last...oh, well, I read Heartless but that was in June, so that doesn't count! Oh wait...I already bought Dance With Dragons. I'm trying to force myself to do one from the pile of doom between each new one though..

My favorite HP fanfiction was about Blaise Zabini. I loved the fact people took a character who had only been briefly mentioned and went absolutely wild with it.

Woah, I guess I will have to catch up then. And well, figure out what book I left off on. I think it was 8. Maybe 9.

When I was 11 and first reading HP, my favorite character was a toss up between Hermione and Neville (I have friends who call me Hermione. I've never quite known if that meant they wanted me to shut up or found it endearing). Gotta say, Neville's really made a uh, comeback.

Well *everyone* knows the Coldhands is really Benjen Stark's clone and the *real* Benjen is eating bonbons with the undead sons of Craster in a pineapple under the Wall.

I think 13 episodes, played right, could be the sweet spot between the nearly too short 6 episode British shows and the far freaking too long 20-whatever episode US shows. (Though, I am willing to be proven wrong by Torchwood's 10 episode season). Though, HBO seems to be trying this theory as well because certain…

That Meera and Jojen died. Also, its kind of weird how many of the fake spoilers involve the Reeds. Everyone just wants Howland to have a reason to magically show up and reveal Jon's parentage.

There's only one of these I actually fell for, phew.

My mother says I could get in trouble for saying such things in Southern California, but I agree. (Also? "the space plane helped carry Southern California's aerospace industry for four decades" is a problem of innovation and not something to be whole-heartedly endorsing, LATimes)

I was veryyyy in to PKD as a teenager, but upon re-reading some of my old favs within the last year or so, I was very underwhelmed. (I wish I had the absolutely awful essay I wrote in free will, conciousness and androids when I was 15. The lowest grade I ever got on a paper in college!)

A search of the NYTimes revealed that Un Lun dun hit the children's list & Embassytown the hardcover, but alas, detailed back lists don't seem to be up for anything pre-2008; of course, that's only one metric. (Now I have somehow ended up reading articles from the 90s about a college-aged John Scalzi....)

Thank you for clarifying that it was indeed the static screen—I didn't start watching television on a regular basis until I was a teenager (ie when it was already digital, and well, I downloaded it anyways), and thought that maybe there was some other color that the television went, like dark grey. You never know!

20th anniversary edition. It was actually surprisingly difficult to find a few months back; I had to go to multiple bookstores. The new cover: [booktionary.blogspot.com]

I read some of the spoilers because I am an absolute spoilerphile. However, I will not venture to the dregs of the internet to see the rest of them.

If anything, having to be Quiet seems like a relic of the fact that the Oubliette began as a prison, so it does not necessarily have to make sense in a way—because you still have to pay up, if you will, because you don't entirely have a free will—which is also part of the book, you think you're free, you think it runs…

I tolerated Blackout/All Clear up until the end, at which point I wanted to throw my copy across the room. It is a very divisive book, so you may end up one of the crowd that really actually does like it. I just found it extremely slow & plodding and the main reveal made me, as a former history major, very, very…

My favorite is any scenario where we get off this rock for any long period of time, with the caveat that sure, "we" may get off it with some hardcore genetic manipulation. Also, this list is quite a bit dated because I would automatically anticipate a focus on the biological, as I know people who have been doing…

I think I had Stendhal Syndrome in Florence, but that may have had more to do with the anxiety of being surrounded by so many people and seeing my favorite pieces of art and not being able to stop without being walked into.