Here are the first two of those ten book reviews: Virginia Kantra’s Sea Lord and Nora Roberts’s Vision in White. Both are outstanding upcoming books. The first is a modern fantasy and erotic romance, while the latter is an erotic romance and chick-lit. I highly recommend pre-ordering or picking them up as soon as they come out!
Just eight of ten more books to go! Except, of course, that I’m already reading another book, so soon it’ll be eleven rather than ten. I’m such a glutton for punishment…
After having computer troubles over the last week (turned out to be a trojan) and mostly doing a lot of reading, I now have TEN book reviews to write. Yes, ten. However, because I happened to get shipments of upcoming/just out books by a bunch of my favorite authors at the same time, they’re primarily a set of VERY good books. So stay tuned this week—I’ll have a lot of wonderful reading to recommend to you!
Yesterday I got to chatting with my husband and someone else about some of the hijinks that went on at MIT when I & my husband were there. One that I didn’t think of at the time but that for some reason popped into my head last night was the human chess game.
About 10-15 years ago we noted that the tile squares in lobby 10 at MIT were the perfect size (and came in enough number) that they could hold a human chess match. So we taped off a board, rounded up two ranked chess players to play the kings and give directions and enough people to play the pieces, and held a game. When one piece “killed” another there would be a mock combat, followed by the defeated piece’s “death” and removal from the board. It was great fun, and drew quite the crowd.
I’m a bit behind on listing book reviews. Here are the latest ones for you; there are some truly brilliant entries this time!
(Phew! I hadn’t realized just how much I’d fallen behind there!)
And a kitchenware review, of the Emerilware Poultry Roaster.
There’s plenty more where that came from; I’ve already read three more books that I plan to review this week, and of course it won’t stop there! 
We also recently received two cookbooks for review, which we’re currently making recipes from, and so far they’re holding up quite well. So if you’re looking for good books to buy, come back often!
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