The girl who girled a girl

What is with all these books? I mean, I haven't read any of them, though I did watch the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series (the original Swedish ones, not the confusing American remakes released like, the very next year [what the hell is the point of remaking the exact movie a year later with a …

It’s time

For daily blogging! I have at least one thought a day, don't I? We all must, or what would life be but a series of autonomous responses to our environment? I am going to write down thoughts! What a concept. And what better place than here for the world to see! Or more likely ignore, …

Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks: A hell of a story

This is the 8th Culture novel, and the third that I've read, and so far I think it's the most memorable. The story focuses on virtual reality, and mainly the virtual realities different civilizations create for their afterlives. Some of them being hells. With the ability to record, copy and / or upload consciousness, comes …

Imagine no possessions…

Ursula K. Le Guin did, in The Dispossessed, which I just finished listening to. This book was described to me as the anti Atlas Shrugged, which made me instantly buy it without hearing anything else. It holds up to this description by being of reasonable length, by having realistic, likable characters, and by describing ideas …

The endless slog through the morass of procrastination

I have reached 20,000 words on the novella I've been writing since November of last year. Yeah, that's like, 2000 words per month. But despite the inchworm-like pace I've been maintaining on it, I still feel like reaching this milestone deserves some kind of cheering. However. If I keep up at this pace it won't …