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Utopia by Thomas More
4 of 5 stars
I need to not have pre-conceived notions about books before I read them. For some reason, I thought this was a more contemporary book. I knew that this book was what a lot of dystopian books are influenced by, but I didn’t realize it was written in [...]

Noodler’s Ink Red Black in Lamy Safari on Quattro artist pad
If you can’t read my writing:
This ink is such a chameleon. On first glance, it’s just brown. Then I start to notice its subtle shading. (It’s more apparent on less toothy paper.)  It’s less red and less black than I had hoped. I wanted a [...]

Thorn Queen by Richelle Mead
4 of 5 stars
I dove eagerly into Thorn Queen as soon as I finished reading Storm Born. Richelle Mead is a straight-forward writer and an excellent story-teller. Her descriptions of the other world and supporting characters made it incredibly easy to relate to Eugenie Markham, the main [...]

Storm Born by Richelle Mead
4 of 5 stars
I discovered urban fantasy after reading the Sookie Stackhouse series and then reading Felicia Day’s post about the genre. But after reading a book in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and not liking it, I wondered if maybe that genre just wasn’t for me. Luckily, [...]

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
2 of 5 stars
This book can be read through two frames. While the author was observing and remarking how quaint and backwards the natives were, I was observing how quaint and backwards the author’s views on Africa was. I had to keep reminding myself of the decades [...]

This Lamy Al-Star actually belongs to the BF.  It’s fairly similar to the Lamy Safari except for two obvious things: the body, unlike the plastic body of the Safari, is aluminum and the section is a tinted, clear black, making the feed visible. He got his with a (M)edium nib.
The Lamy Al-Star still has its [...]

In an effort to keep my penmanship from deteriorating further, I purchased a fountain pen and have been using it for a little more than a week.  I went with a fairly decent starter pen, the Lamy Safari, with a F (fine) sized nib.  In the spirit of writing by hand, I even wrote down [...]