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Conversation while cataloging our book collection

Posted by Jordan on May 27th, 2007

Where did you say those other Steele books were?
On that shelf there, with the other Anne Mccaffrey books.
Mccaffrey?  J. D. Masters wrote the Steele series!
 Didn’t the Anne Mccaffrey book have Steel in the title or something?
Nope, those two books both had “Pegasus” in their title.  They’re not even close — Anne Mccaffrey writes girly sci-fi [...]

For the love of reading

Posted by Jordan on March 26th, 2006

I love reading. I’ve always loved reading. I vividly recall one New Years Eve when my dad and I stayed up past the fireworks even to finish the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. He sat in an an old, green lazy-boy recliner and I was young enough that the two of [...]

Night of the living dead ebooks

Posted by Jordan on August 2nd, 2004

An interesting story on slashdot recently highlighted some of the supposed flaws with ebooks. Most of the article is really and trule pretty retarded. It treats ebooks as if they’re only going to catch on when a dedicated device catches on to support it.
Nevermind the fact that I’ve been happily reading ebooks on [...]

List to Self

Posted by Jordan on October 19th, 2003

I just finished a good book called Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge while visiting my in-laws today. I had seen it a many months previously in passing and had scribbled the title on the back of something that was forgotten for sometime before I happened to check my library for it and noticed it was [...]

A Quote

Posted by Jordan on September 24th, 2003

I’ve been at a loss for anything particularly interesting or worthwhile (not that I’ve ever let that stop me before) to post, so instead I’ll steal someone a quote from a book I’m reading:
“The longer a person lives, the more he or she tends to dwell on the past rather than live in dynamic interaction [...]