by J. Lynne on November 27, 2007
in Book Talk
I finished listening to The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright Sunday morning. Actually, I sat 10 minutes in my car in the Panera parking lot listening to the end, because I had to hear the last little bits, even though by that part in the book, [...]
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I used to be a Gamer Girl. We’re talking “Old School” here, not that new-fangled Xbox and Playstation stuff. No, I’m talking pen-and-paper table-top gaming with dice and rule books — you know, D&D, GURPS, Star Wars, and World of Darkness Role Playing. Oh, I so loved stretching the imagination and good [...]
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