Howdy Protagonists, welcome to the seventeenth subplot of HACK. If you’ve made it this far, be sure to cite your sources.

It’s 5:00 AM on Sunday morning. I’ve been awake for 90 minutes.  There’s a vague memory of planning to see Noelie at Diane’s at around 8:00 last night. Apparently my body needed a deep dreamless sleep instead.

So I’m up now. Just got back from Wawa with a 24 oz. cup of 2 green tea and 2 chamomile tea bags.  I’m ready to write.  Except, well, I’m really not in the right mood to write.

“Mood?  What has mood to do with it?  Mood’s a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset.”  –Gurney Halleck

I’m not even in the mood to write a review of other people’s writings.  So instead I’ve hacked off some pieces of Amazon editorial descriptions and Wikipedia articles on all the books I’ve read and listened to in the past year, books I’m reading now, and books I will’ve finished reading before the year is out.  My blanket review would be:  I approve of them all.  Read them.  Or read the descriptions, and contemplate other quantum realities where different versions of you have read them.  READ MORE »