but was it worth it?

One of the main things a person who's completely exhausted from four straight nights of bad sleep should not do, of course, is stay up till one a.m. reading. I therefore give you one guess what I did last night. Yep.

I was reading Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson, the only one of this year's Hugo Award nominees that I've so far been able to find at the library. It was a very interesting read (I mean, I don't stay up till 1a.m. for just any old book). rainbow_goddess might be interested to know that the book makes some mention of Asperger's Syndrome, although it isn't a main focus of the plot.

( My review of the book, with minimal spoilage. )

Overall, a very good read. I would give it four out of five stars. Oh, and it definitely passes the Bechdel test, even if you don't count the little girl.

Now back to trying to track down copies of the other Hugo nominees. I went ahead and bought a copy of Lois Bujold's Paladin of Souls online, because who am I kidding, I have to own everything Lois wrote; but as for the others, looks like I'll be doing some interlibrary loan....

wah!

I have (or at least I hope I have) adorabibble pictures of Isaac sleeping with his butt in the air, and adorabibble pictures of naked swimming Isaac, but I can't share them with you because for some reason Windoze Exploder doesn't like my compact-flash card. :(

I sure hope it's some temporary bizarreness with Windoze and/or my card reader, not the card itself. I'll give it a try tonight on my mom's computer with her card reader. Keep your fingers crossed.

Meanwhile, I was so excited to do my book report in the previous post that I forgot about ( the weekend summary )

This morning Isaac didn't wake up at 6:30, thank goodness. He did wake up at about 7:15 when my alarm went off for the second time -- don't know whether the alarm woke him or he just woke on his own. And now it's back to the grind. Happy Monday. *groan*

handy tips

I'm not even a Harry Potter fan, but I'm pimping hp_for_grownups anyway, because xochiquetzl said so. ;) I know there are those on my flist who might enjoy an adults-only HP community, so, uh, go join it. ;)

Handy tip: If you're looking through your Amazon Gold Box, and there's an item on it that you can't even figure out what the heck it IS ... you probably don't need it. I'm just sayin'.