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The Glenlivet Nadurra | The Vice Blog
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I have lots of vices in my life. I enjoy my vices. Here I offer critical (but non-pretentious) reviews of the many vices I indulge in. Mainly craft beer. Most Beer Blogs SUCK. Top 10 Most Wanted. Very Best of the VB. The typical liquor “cabinets” of people of various ages:. An 18-year-old’s consists of a bottle of cheap Schnapps stolen from a relative and now hiding under their childhood twin bed next to the wanking lube. Johnny Walker Blue Label. Nope, it’s the collection of my 28-year-old friend ...
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The Rediscovered Country: September 2014
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Fairy tales, bad TV, classroom ramblings, and contemporary speculative fiction . Saturday, September 20, 2014. Boring, Stupid, and Terrible (and Two Amazing Books). Others acknowledged that you have to fill the space and sometimes you just don't like anything you've been reading lately. So while I'm going to continue to read and review all teh bookz over at FantasyLiterature.com. Two books that I've read recently that are the categorical opposites of Boring, Stupid, or Terrible are Station Eleven. Into t...
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Noun endings. | The Blotted Line
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I’ve been studying Russian for the past year — I took an intro-level course during my undergrad, and am now using Nicholas J. Brown’s. New Penguin Russian Course. So today marks the day that I was able to write down complete sets of noun endings for masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns in all their configurations (that’s 156 endings! Should probably study pronoun and adjective endings more extensively though. Posted in I heart grammar forever. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Being t...
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The Blotted Line | Page 2
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Newer posts →. 8216;You are my least bad cat’. A thing I say to Lady Jane at least once a day. Posted in Cat-lady adventures. Tagged Lady Jane is my only good cat. You would think Cynthia would be the least bad cat but she is so bad. My mother was visiting and she took one look at Lucy and said ‘I think she’s getting fluffier’. Posted in Cat-lady adventures. She also said 'she looks like a poodle'. Posted in Cat-lady adventures. Guess who didn’t do any stretching today and now has a hurty back/knee?
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This week in books. | The Blotted Line
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I am still trying to learn…. Working on a proposal for a new project… →. This week in books. So many books this week! I’m reading lots of young adult literature for teaching prep. But also for fun. Shall we? Alexie, Sherman. The. Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Illus Ellen Forney. New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2007. New York: Yearling, 2001. We’ve all read this before, right? Harrison Withers’s cats tho’! Lord and Lady Bunny — Almost Royalty. Keeper of the Isis Light. Le Guin, Ursula K.
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The Rediscovered Country: June 2014
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Fairy tales, bad TV, classroom ramblings, and contemporary speculative fiction . Wednesday, June 25, 2014. People of the Morning Star: Historical novel blends myth and intrigue. This review originally appeared here. At FantasyLiterature.com, where I gave the book 3 out of 5 stars.*. People of the Morning Star. By the archaeologist couple Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, is pretty interesting once it gets going. The story of People of the Morning Star. You think it was that way [in Cahokia]?
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The Rediscovered Country: November 2014
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Fairy tales, bad TV, classroom ramblings, and contemporary speculative fiction . Sunday, November 30, 2014. This past Tuesday, the trailer for Jurassic World. Came out. So obviously I had to watch it six times in one day and then have extended conversations with both my fiance and my parents to know what I really thought about it. I loved Jurassic Park. When I was a kid; who didn't? But then I had a decade and a half of other "favorite" movies: Amelie, Fight Club,. Let that sink in for a second. This...
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The Rediscovered Country: October 2014
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Fairy tales, bad TV, classroom ramblings, and contemporary speculative fiction . Thursday, October 02, 2014. Crown of Vengeance: Enjoyable high fantasy. I finished listening to the audio version of Crown of Vengeance. The first in Mercedes Lackey. Basically, it’s your typical high fantasy. And I am pleased to say that I enjoyed every moment of this book. 8217;s WHEEL OF TIME series, headed by an Astromancer instead of an Amyrlin Seat. This review originally appeared at FantasyLiterature.com.
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The Rediscovered Country: February 2015
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Fairy tales, bad TV, classroom ramblings, and contemporary speculative fiction . Friday, February 13, 2015. On Wednesdays, I do a weekly web round-up post over at FantasyLiterature.com. (Also, I wear pink.). And in the course of searching for lots of SFF-related news in publishing, TV, and film, I also run across a fair amount of stuff that's of interest to me as a writer. Like Kameron Hurley's essay. About what the non-J.K. Rowlings and Pat Rothfusses of the world get paid to write books. In response to...
