I mean it was partly that. Partly that, and partly I was so underwhelmed by Dragonhaven, and partly that I started it once and didn’t get on with it. The honey was not the primary issue but it was a good and legitimate excuse.

I took the GRE a while ago actually, so thank goodness, I didn’t have to worry about that. Of course when I took it I didn’t know what I was going to do for grad school and thus didn’t take advantage of any of the free score reports. :

I’m going in for creative writing, if anyone will have me – what about you?

Sunshine is wonderful. I’ve been trying to decide for the past few days whether I should reread it right now, or save it for later. I like delaying gratification but I’m afraid I’ll end up not in the mood for it anymore. Looking forward to seeing what you think of it!

I didn’t mind the ending of Sunshine at all – it was confusing and messy, but that was sort of the nature of the confrontation, given that Sunshine was a human and the vampires were vampires. Plus the way it happened seemed to be all of a piece with the other things we’d seen Sunshine do. With Chalice, I didn’t feel like McKinley had given us a good grasp on the rules of magic, so the confrontation scene didn’t work.

And you scolded me for being dubious about desert books!