Mortaine’s Blog

I was checking my friends list and noticed that, being a bonehead, I had never friended back, apparently. And I also saw a new person in my friend-of list, , whose journal I checked out and, hey, correct grammar and spelling and a lack of idiocy (my standards aren’t very high, but they do rule out the majority of LJ users). Welcome, both of you, to the nuttiness. I know how Bob found me, but Lunza, if you feel like speaking up– where’d you come from?

There are a couple of other folks on my Friends-of list who I don’t plan to add back, like the serialadder who isn’t cute, and an Indian information site (um….?) who I welcome to read my journal, if you get anything entertaining from the experience, but who I’m not especially interested in reading.

Oh, and : I wrote up a long comment to reply to your question earlier, but had to save it to my hard drive (which is at home, of course), so I’ll post it (and the post about Harry Potter I wrote this morning) when I get home late tonight. Maybe– my father in law will be here this evening, so I may be ignoring the Internet. However, the icon site is here (thanks to for pointing me to the link).

You’re not missing May! I didn’t review any books in May, 2004.

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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though most probably know where I stand.

Read this and be sure to click through to the interview footage itself, please. You can decide for yourself if this is the man who should be leading the Free World.

Read this.

That’s why.

“This is the problem with LJ, we all think we are so close, and we know nothing about each other. I’m going to rectify it. I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you.”