Instead of sidling up seductively with promises of Valentines to come, February has arrived in the embrace of her wintry sister January. With icy streets covered by a thin layer of snow and predictions of End of Days snowfall to come, I find myself on the receiving end of that rarest of rare things: an actual Snow Day. My company generally laughs in the face of Old Man Winter, but today they chose not to tempt fate and issued orders for warm blankets, hot cocoa, and a good book. Or at least that is the way I heard it. 😉
Though January 2011 plagued us with heavy snowfall and temperatures worthy of comparison to a witch’s bosom, it was also filled with 31 days of mostly great reading, wherein I found warmth and comfort in the cold environs of space, on alien worlds, and in the past and future of good ol’ Terra Firma. Not to mention the incredible imagination of authors and artists whose work found fertile ground in my heart and mind.
I hope everyone else had a wonderful literary month. Here is where my journeys took me:
