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Please check it out, and if you can get your hands on a SK book (or a book with at least one of his short stories in it) please be prepared to release it on Sept 21...

Wyando is trying to have a challenge with the most BCers involved. You only release 1 book!!

check it out, and join us!!

http://bookcrossing.com/forum/23/5515545

stinalyn is already in Colorado, and right now (ok, right now she is probably sleeping) -- but soon, she will be preparing to do her Bookcrossing presentation at the Mensa Annual Gathering.

we plan to meet, with as many BCers/Mensa folks/whomever as we can find on Saturday July 5th at the Barnes & Noble at the Pavillions downtown at 1830 hrs. If you can join us, we would love to see you!!!

More info is HERE

Sorry for the late notice, I suck.

My friend Justin lost his dog tonight. Please help us find her.
Her name is Xabe, like Babe with a Z.
( PUPPY FOUND! )

It's a few days after the fact (we saw it last Thursday), but I thought I'd still post my thoughts on the new Get Smart film, starring Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway. We caught it on a slow weeknight showing, with only about 15 people in the theater, mostly in their twenties. I was kind of surprised at how easily the younger generation connected with such a nostalgia-laden film...but in a pleasant way.

( the review is under the cut )

Nicely done, gang!

Don S. Davis
August 4, 1942 - June 29, 2008

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2008/06/don_s._davis_1942-2008.shtml

Okay, this one is a major shocker. One of my absolute favorite television actors of the past couple of decades.

Though best known as General Hammond on Stargate SG-1, I fondly remember him as far back as bit parts on MacGyver and Wiseguy, and he was a regular on the justifiably short-lived Cannell series Broken Badges.

I remember being so incredibly pissed when I heard he was being written out of SG-1, and then truly pleased when he made guest appearances on that and Atlantis. I'm really gonna miss him. Condolences to his family and friends...

Active weekend for me, filled with activities and people.

( Saturday - the fish part )

( Sunday - friends, food, frisbees part )

Whew! Now it's back to the black hole of work. Sigh...

The turnout was light, just five of us. Jackie and Catharine (the Spikette) were missing from the usual suspects, but there were consolations. For the first time I got to meet Krys (aka 

</a></font></b></a>satsekhmetin LJ aka tehuti on BC) and David (meddyg on BC). It was a special pleasure to see Krys looking so well after her sudden major surgery. And the sun shone on us, so we were able to sit outside in the Pen & Wig's beer garden. It was fun! 

I took this opportunity to try out my spiffy new Nikon D80 camera. Just a few pics, but they encouraged me to start a new "BC folk" set on Flickr. Here it is:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20851524@N00/sets/72157605873984272/detail/

The pixel definition of this camera is tremendous. Try putting a picture on the "original size" setting. It's huge! You can count people's eyelashes. Not that there's any reason you would want to, but it's nice to know you can!
 

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
A wonderfully written book, it is easy and a fun read. Our hero is a psychopath who only kills people who deserve it. This is his only moral and he sticks to it as a lifeline. This was a gift from his only known parent. The poor man can't feel emotions and has to fake his way through life, but he does it so successfully, there are only a few people who can see him for the monster he may be.

Another psychopath has arrived on his home turf and is killing in much the same way as Dexter does and it is calling to his Dark passenger in the beauty and art of the murders. Given to me as an RABCK by Peggysmum


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Here's a great summer read for teenage girls - I read first it in seventh grade and loved it; now I'm entering college and I still think it's brilliant. Everything is written in free verse, with beautiful illustrations. Highly recommended.



(The video is only a minute long; make sure to turn up the sound.)



Happy reading!

hello people! i'm new to this community, and new to nebraska (from wisconsin and canada), but i feel the need to mention . . .


tomorrow, in lincoln, in the terminal building main floor (941 O street) from 9am - 4pm is KZUM's record and book sale!

if you are looking for cheap media, this is the place!

i'll be the one with curly hair and a dashing hat. :D

I have an abundance of stickers right now. Here's a picture of how I am storing them. I undid the wire if a wire hanger, slipped the multitudes of sticker rolls I have on it and then did the darn thing back up. This is how I store spools of ribbons, too. I feel so organized!

Hello,

I'm a student from Finland and planning on spending the fall semester studying in Lincoln, Nebraska (at the NWU). What I'm looking for is tips and travel recommendations. What are the places to visit during my stay and what are the places to avoid in Nebraska? Anyone from Lincoln? Anything there that I should definitely see? I found this comm and thought 'the best way is to ask someone who lives there!'

I greatly appreciate any advice!! :)

Mods, sorry if this kind of post is not allowed.

Seriously, this is the best book I've read in a long time.  I can't wait to see how it does when it launches on July 29th!

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The Lace Reader
by Brunonia Barry

Beautiful and as exquisite as Battenburg lace, The Lace Reader is an intricate story set in Salem, Mass.  (Yes, that Salem.)  Home to witches and weirdoes, Salem is also the residence of the Whitneys, a family that has lived there for generations.  The Whitney women keep the secret of reading lace and other psychic abilities, with the matriarch Eva teaching all who wish to see the future how to read lace in her tea shop.  But Eva's gone missing, so the family summons home wayward daughter Towner Whitney, the protagonist and teller of this tale.

Towner is an unreliable narrator.  She admits in the very first paragraph that she lies, and follows this revelation with the admission that she is also crazy.  Years ago her memories were shock-treated away after the traumatic suicide of her twin sister, and she’s been trying to reconstruct her past ever since.  As she returns to Salem and encounters people she used to know and meets new residents, the tangled threads of her past begin to come together and take shape, twisting into designs and realities she never anticipated.

This is a mystery.  Where is Eva, and later, where is Ann?  What happened all those years ago before Whitney left Salem?

This is a romance, albeit a sedated one.  Will Towner allow herself to fall for the awkward-but-kind op that moved to Salem after his marriage fell apart?  Or will she allow an old flame into her heart once more?

This is a drama.  The Calvinists, an extremely conservative religious cult lead by the Rev. Cal (also related to Towner), are in constant warfare with the modern witches who have taken Salem and made it their own.  Will charismatic Cal rally his troops and gain enough support to bring Salem in line with his church’s dogma?  Can Towner resolve her issues with her estranged mother, distant brother, lost aunt and dead sister?  

Amazingly, author Brunonia Barry never loses track of her many threads and weaves a rich story, multi-faceted and complex.  Heck, somehow she manages to pull it all together without the end feeling contrived.  There are surprises and unexpected delights throughout.  Truly, this is the best book I’ve read (so far) in 2008!

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this is where my inlaws want to take me when we visit this July. Color me Happy!!!

Books!!

*cross-posted to my personal journal