100 books project

  • RoW80 Goals!

    Yesterday, I talked about my goals for the year in general; today, we narrow our focus a little bit to a mere slice of the year, the next Round of Words in 80 Days, which starts today and runs through March 22nd, just two days before my birthday. So, clearly, there will need to be…

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  • “‘….Lucky you, a private audience and everything. The only others who earn such a privilege are myself and his whores.’ “What’s the difference?’” I always hate to admit it, but the end of Daylight Saving’s Time “Fall Back” is a godsend. It’s been a rough weekend for me on the side of work; I haven’t…

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  • “It was exhausting to be Thorn’s daughter, always avoiding the surveillance of the Vast Machine, always watching for enemies, always aware of the angle of attack.” “The Traveler” by John Twelve Hawks When I started The Traveler, the first book in a realm-jumping, anti-technology trilogy, I was pretty revved up and excited. Here I had,…

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  • “‘Let’s see. Kind is better than cruel-I’m sure of that. Loose is better than rigid. Love is better than indifference. So is hate. Laughing is the best. Not laughing will kill you. Alone is okay. Not alone is way better. That’s about it…and in my life so far there’s not a single one of them…

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  • “God created Arrakis to train the faithful.” “Dune” by Frank Herbert Dune is one of those classics of literature, especially of the sci fi genre, that I have been sadly underexposed to. This time, however, it’s completely my fault. My father and my younger brother were both big into these books as I was growing…

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