Reviews, Congrats, and Virginia

Since the year is half over, I thought I'd recommend my three favorite books read thus far in 2010...

( Click for three mini-reviews. )

* Thanks to all of you who've looked me up on Goodreads. If you haven't yet, please consider yourself invited!

* Hearty congratulations to Ann K. Schwader (ankh_hpl) for winning the Rhysling Award for Short Form Poem from the Science Fiction Poetry Association!

* Happy early birthday wishes to sunshinedew and knesinka_e. May you enjoy many happy returns of the day.

* From nakeisha:
If you want to play, post a picture in your LJ of your pet(s) happily snoozing away. New pets, long-time pets, former pets, cats, dogs, birds, snakes, ferrets, rats, fish, all are welcome. If you don't have a pet of your own, find a snoozy one on the Internet and adopt it for the day!

I never pass up an opportunity to post a picture of Virginia!




"That's it! When people believe that what they believe is the immortal truth there's not much you can do. They're born clay with a lovely tendency to become statuary. But some aunt, some mother, a sister, a schoolmate, a church, soon grabs them and bakes them into mean little bricks. And the bricks made a nation. And every brick is faulty and crumbly. And when the pile gets high enough it collapses. Every single nation did; and now, the world."
- Dr. Paula Gaunt in the "women's world" in The Disappearance by Philip Wylie