Codex Alera

Last year I listened to the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher and really enjoyed them.  I thought the reader did a fantastic job--she did all the voices for the characters.  It's a fantasy series consisting of 6 books that follow a young man, Tavi, and other members of his family through various adventures.  If you enjoy fantasy I would highly recommend them.  And if you're a fan of audio books I would suggest listening to them.

The titles of the books in the series are:
1- Furies of Calderon
2- Academ's Fury
3- Cursor's Fury
4- Captain's Fury
5- Princeps' Fury
6- First Lord's Fury

Happy Reading!

                             

Early Christmas Shopping

Happy (belated) Holidays!  This year has been a particularly busy year during the month of December, and I was happy not to have to worry too much about gift buying.  I did almost all of my gift buying on-line before Thanksgiving, then I just let the packages come to me.  This made my December quite a bit less stressful and I was able to enjoy all the fun activities we had planned.  Some people might think buying Christmas presents before Thanksgiving is a bit extreme, but to those I quote from A Christmas Carol's Scrooge, "You keep Christmas in your way and let me keep it in mine."

What are your thoughts?  Are you an early Christmas shopper or does shopping in December make it feel more like Christmas-time (as my husband believes)?