HAIL! It Is Time To Celebrate The Feast Of Being Checked Into The Hotel Room!

Clovis and I want to know where we can get our own colony of Aeslin mice. Because if anyone should have a colony of them, it's me and the Devilbunny.

I'm loading up the Kindle while I still can (Whispernet apparently won't work once I'm not in the US), so I'll go ahead and add Discount Armaggedon even though I hate the cover. Seriously, do book covers suck more now than at any time since the 70s?

Oh, the cover is horrible. I felt vaguely embarrassed by it.

Yeah, I don't particularly like the cover, but Seanan does think it's appropriate since Verity does work in a strip club. The cover of the next book is better, though.

Random bookish(ish) question - does anyone have access to the London Times Literary Supplement? Or even a stack of the last few months' copies sitting in a TBR pile somewhere nearby? My wonderful uni library, which has subscriptions and online access to practically every periodical you can think of, has finally failed me. All I need is one lousy article, but I can't get to it without paying a preposterous subscription fee.

I bought a Kindle just before I left for my ship, and it is essentially the greatest thing I ever purchased because I have never read so much in my life, considering how little free time I had. I don't mean to swoop in and completely hijack the conversation, but very few people on the ship really read a lot so I had no on to talk books with. Here's what I read on the ship (give or take a few that clearly weren't memorable if I forgot them):

- The Rook by Daniel O'Malley (awesome)
-Pride & Prejudice (I had somehow never read it?)
- Tess of the d'Urberivilles and Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy (this guy must have lived a sad and miserable life because his books are so depressing I can't even)
- Howard's End by EM Forster
- a book my friend from school wrote which took me like 3 months to get through because it was all battle sequences all the time and I really only trudged through it because I was always a little bit in love with him
- Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth (loved them; can't wait for both book 3 and the movie)
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (I cried and cried and it really can't be good to weep on the Kindle)
- all of the The Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices books by Cassandra Clare (I liked TID a lot more than TMI)

and now I'm reading Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. Which so far is cool.

Yay books! Looking forward to seeing what you all are reading!

Yay zuisa! ebooks are the BEST for travel. I am so happy to be living in this future. As a kid I swear I dreamed about this kind of thing...

- Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth (loved them; can't wait for both book 3 and the movie)

There's going to be a MOVIE?

Which is to say, yeah, I read them, too, and really enjoyed them.

There's going to be a MOVIE?

Yes! It's not set to come out until 2014, but still. The actress cast to play Tris is from Secret Life of the American Teenager, which worries me, but still.

I plowed through the first book in a day; I was completely sucked in.

The actress cast to play Tris is from Secret Life of the American Teenager, which worries me, but still.

It shouldn't. She was great in The Descendants and won a ton of awards.