I’ve been up all night on Ancestry.com. If you haven’t worked on genealogy in a while, and I haven’t since 1996, that place is addictive. It’s fairly awesome, though I’m not sure it’s worth the expense. But gawd, is that place slow.
If you’re not a genealogy geek as I am, you’re not going to understand [...]
Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
28 Aug
Addiction
5 Nov
Acworth Books-A-Million Sucks
Alternately Titled: The Curse of the Book Club Membership
So yesterday, I went to Books-A-Million here in Acworth (3372 North Cobb Parkway) to get the three books I’ve been drooling over this past week. I found the books easily enough (they were new releases) but, as usual, I had problems at the checkout.
3 Nov
Sweet Super Tuesday…
Not only is Laurell K. Hamilton releasing a book tomorrow, but JD Robb is releasing one, too. WooHoo!
That’s TWO of my favorite authors with a new book out tomorrow. I’m not going to know what to do with myself. It’s been a long time since I’ve bought two new books at once. You’re probably [...]
24 Oct
Hello Darkness
Note from the Editors: Our Prudie does love the Meredith Gentry and Anita Blake books. Alas.
13 Mar
It’s Always For The Greater Good
I’m reading Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism; I’m a couple of pages into the first chapter (which deals with Mussolini). Goldberg connects “belief” with fascism in a way I’ve never before considered. The principles and promises of fascism need not be true for the movement to be successful. As long as followers of those principles believe [...]
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