Mortaine’s Blog

John’s birthday is officially on Monday, but since we both have to work, we’re celebrating it today.

So far, we’ve had cupcakes for breakfast, opened presents, run an errand, signed up for SCUBA classes, had Chinese food for lunch, and are now home geeking out– me on the computer, him on Civ3 (though earlier he was playing GTA:Vice City).

For birthday, I got him:
Our Traditional gift (something that I give him every year but don’t wish to share with others– personal)
The Introvert Advantage (he knew this was coming)
Simpsons: Road Rage (we both enjoyed it so much when we rented it from Blockbuster)
Basic SCUBA Certification class (with me as his buddy) - we start on Sunday, March 21, so I need to get a doctor’s sign-off before then (AAAA!)

This is an archive of my shorter book reviews and notes, which historically have been posted over at the 50 Book Challenge on LiveJournal, but which I’m starting to move over here. I’m posting them with altered date-stamps, but they might show up in my LiveJournal cross-post anyway. Bear with me, please.

Note: Many of these books also have full reviews available in the book review podcast (RSS).
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