New Horizons

I read a TON, but it's mostly in the same genre (fantasy, with smatterings of Sci-fi.) But lately I've been expanding my horizons a bit, just for giggles. I read a western called Shane recently, and it was good. I started another western called The Outcasts, and it was super boring . . . despite have two gun-fights, a couple bounty hunters, and an orphaned baby dumped on a roving, wrongly-accused outlaw, all within the first 50 pages. I mean, how do you manage to make that boring?

. . . anyway. I've read a few skanky romance novels too (skipping the raciest parts), and one of those was actually pretty engaging. Most recently I read Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, which was very enjoyable, and I'ma have to nab the 2nd one. Admittably, there's a definite sci-fi twist to it, being about a 200-year-old Victor Frankenstein running around modern day New Orleans and building a New Race of super-humans to take over the world . . . but it read as a very good detective/mystery/suspense novel (which I understand is what he's good at). Kind of CSI crossed with X-files. :D It was lovely, and I think I'll check out some more Koontz after I read the rest of the Frankenstein series. However many are in it. (Oh crap . . . I just checked, and its a trilogy, the last of which is coming out this year . . . which means waiting . . . Bah.)

So yeah. Expanding my reading horizons. I'm especially open to suggestions for good books to read outside of my preferred genre . . . :) Easier to pick up something someone else likes than to wander aimlessly through unfamiliar parts of the library and end up picking up another Outcasts . . . :)

Yum!

I'm a big fan of the chicken-apple-tacos I invented the other day. I've managed to make them twice, so it's not a fluke, and the process is totally easy and the results are quite delicious! :) I just fry a chicken breast with a few random spices (in this case, onion powder and "french fry seasoning," of all things . . .), make some rice, and then add apple slices right in with the (fully cooked) simmering chicken, and let them sit long enough to get all soft and mix flavors with the chicken . . . then I put the lot of it on a tortilla, and perhaps layer some cream cheese (as opposed to sour cream) over it. Very tasty. Cream cheese tastes quite good with the sweetness of the apples.

Just thought I'd share that. I'm rather proud of it. And I brought the leftovers to work today. :D

One of these days . . .

I'm gonna have my own website, and not some limited blog incarnation. :P I want a place where I can not only ramble, but post story ideas and photos and all sorts of stuff in an other-than-chronological order. Some place with links and a site map and message boards and a gallery . . . *dreamy-eyes*

Next semester, perhaps, or maybe later (being after I've graduated), I'll take an extra web-development class so I can learn more of the ins and outs of building the web page of my dreams without being too dependent on costly outside services.

But for now, I guess I'll just use Google Blogger to ramble on about nonsense. Since certain people *really* want me to . . . ;)

So here I am. Happy, Naazju?