Another bentobloggy giveaway!

Loathe though I am to share this, there is another bentobloggy giveaway!  awesome prizes galore!  I must enter!
http://bentobloggy.blogspot.com/2010/10/another-bento-pack-giveaway.html

E-Book Readers

As I sit here anxiously, waiting until 3:00 pm rolls around for my midterm exam, I have come to a decision.

If I do well on this exam, I will FINALLY invest in a Kindle.

I've lusted after e-book readers ever since I'd heard of them (couple years now) but now that the prices are so low I think I'm about to take the plunge.  Therefore, everyone wish me luck.  Because I would like a Kindle.

Granted, I'll probably buy one no matter what my grade.  But still.  It's the principle of the thing.

Extinction - Lisa Smedman

This is the 4th installment (of 6) in the War of the Spider Queen.

The war between Menzoberranzan and their enemies continue, in which Gromph finally extricates himself from the prison Dyrr forced upon him and takes part in the battle. 

Pharaun and his group also continue to try to make contact with Lolth by summoning demons and demanding routes to her underworld. 

Halisstra and Ryld abscond from the group.  Halisstra converts her faith.

And Danifae schemes and plots against her mistress, trying to figure out how to free herself. 

Meanwhile, Quenthel relies more and more heavily on her snake whip for advice.  This is not missed by her nephew Jeggred, who sees weakness in his mistress that he did not see before. 

Again, read this a little while ago so details are fuzzy. 

Condemnation - Richard Baker

This book follows the group as they go off in search of a way to contact the missing goddess Lolth.  They search for another medium to reach her, a priest of a different religion, which is pretty much blasphemy to the priestesses. 

Regardless, the effort was a success.  Well, they reached the temple of Lolth after several different skirmishes.  Halisstra's faith in her goddess crumbles upon seeing the empty temple, blocked completely from her goddess. 

Everyone seems pretty shaken that Lolth no longer occupies her temple.  Except of course, the foreign priest who lead them there.  Who then summons Lolth's enemy, her son, to destroy the block on Lolth's temple and wipe any sign of the goddess from that realm.

I read this a week or so ago and just didn't get around to writing about it.  So it's kind of fuzzy.  Thus weak review.