Mortaine’s Blog

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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Went geocaching yesterday, but didn’t find the cache.

Went today to 3 caches and a letterbox. 1 cache was a park-and-grab on the way down Hwy 17. The other two were on a hike through the redwoods that normally takes about 45 minutes round trip, and took us over 2 hours (but we found the caches and a letterbox).

It was fun. I can’t say I was all that impressed by the letterbox stamp, which was a pre-made stamp of a fairy, but whatever. I sort of thought one was supposed to make one’s own stamp.

I need to take pictures of the mini-journals I made this weekend. They’re pretty.

’s Fifth Sunday party was today– much fun with people who should have just had nametags with their LJ usernames, since that’s how many of them know each other anyway. Well, those who don’t know each other “socially,” that is.

Also gamed with and and co this evening. We introduced a new player/player character and were still trying to find a way to say goodbye to the character whose player left earlier this year. It was…. amusing. Because I don’t just trust a character solely because there’s a body behind their voice. And yet… well, anyway, it was amusing. Oh, and my character wants very much not to like or trust him, but her instincts tell her he’s a good guy.