Selection of 2004 YBFH #18 reviews on my website

I have no idea if anyone is aware, but I've been posting a selection of my Year's best reviews on my website under the "Meandering" link for a few years now. Basically, I post the novels I read plus some of the collections and anthologies.

Recently, some of my 2003 reviews went up and my webmaster just posted my 2004 reviews here:

YBFH#18 reviews

I'll be coding and organizing my 2005 reviews this evening and hopefully they'll go up in the next day or so as well.

Another Subterranean #7 review

Christopher Barzak's blog

And congrats, Chris, on the Italian sale of your novel! Yayyyy.

And here's another:
Bibliophile Stalker

and this,
Torque Control

Saturday night was MOVIE night!

Well, it was after I was interviewed online by members of the Australian Writers Association--night for me, next morning for them. The questions were fast and furious but I think I caught them all...there wasn't a moderator and members just tossed out the questions. It was kind of fun that way. The interview is being transcribed, and once it is I've been given permission to post it on my website-which I will have my trusty webmistress do.

So...after that I watched The Good German, Steven Soderbergh's most recent movie-- filmed and written in the B&W post-WW II style of movies of the late 50s early 60s. It didn't quite work. Tobey Maguire is one of the first characters we meet and he is soo out of sync with the b&w sensibility that I had a really hard time getting into the movie in the first place. George Clooney (who has done B&W before --in Good Night, and Good Luck) was fine as was Cate Blanchett but I wasn't wild about the movie.

Then I watched Red Eye, which was the enjoyable popcorn confection silliness I expected--with Cillian Murphy as the menacing seatmate of Rachel McAdams on the flight from hell. The brilliant Brian Cox was completely wasted in a role that could have been played by anybody.

And then....I should have gone to bed (it was 1am) but nooooo. I stupidely went to ebay to check out some items I'm always looking at (dolls of different sorts)...oh boy. Mistake mistake mistake. I forced myself offline and went to bed at 3am...and didn't get up till 11am. Bad me!