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withoutwings

Book List: 2007

I ran across this community on LJ and I figured, Hey, I should make this one of my goals. So, one of my goals for 2007 is to read 50 books. Books that I have read: {edit: July: I forgot to keep track. T__T I shall start now.] Abelove, Joan Saying It Out LoudAtwater-Rhodes, Amelia Wolfcry Aveni,...

Steve Betz

QotD: Today's Top 5 - Books

Top Five Books -- this is actually pretty easy. We were just comparing lists at work on this very topic. The Killer Angels: Michael Shaara I first had to read this book in college (under duress naturally -- actually the night before a history final...) but ended up really enjoying it. A few years...

Graculus

1. The Dispossessed

The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin - since I've been a fan of Le Guin for almost as long as I can remember, my copy isn't the one pictured here but a mid-1970's reprint. It's been a while, though, since I read any of my collection of her works, so I thought I'd get on with that this year... expect...

Ozymandias

The Left Hand of Darkness

'"The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. No Handdara, no Yomesh, no hearthgods, nothing....

Mirvana

Girl's night in movie: The Jane Austen Book Club

Ok, so I read the book version of this, and I'm only a few minutes into the movie, but I already love it. It doesn't stick to the book chronologically, but I like how they mixed it up. The characters are just like I imagined them to be...it is possible to love science fiction and Jane Austen. There...