Dear Everyone – pretties, trannies, jailbait, fetuses and all, In my part of the world, it is 3:18 AM, the first of January, year two thousand and ten – the end of the past nineteen years since my birth, and the beginning of a year that marks the end of yet another decade. The neighbourhood has...
I participated in quite a few reading challenges last year, and I even succeeded at most of them. My final tally of books finished in 2009 was 76, 12 of which were audiobooks. Here is a breakdown of what counted for which challenges, along with a few of my reading highlights for the year. The 1001...
It has been a while since I posted about what I've been reading so here's a list. Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being - This was a book club book picked by the same person who loved One Hundred Years of Solitude so I was wary, but I really enjoyed this novel. It takes place in Prague...
I'm a sucker for lists and memes and organized systems, so yeah, I bought into this one. I haven't posted lately because I've been trying to get this list done. But I can't think of 101 tasks yet, so I'm going to post it to the public and start it today! Start date: August 1, 2007 Last possible day...
Post number twenty-three is for Neil Gaiman's American Gods. This book actually took me a while to read - nearly a whole week, which is odd, since I'm a very fast reader. I haven't read too much of Gaiman's work. I've read Coraline and Good Omens (which he co-wrote with Terry Pratchett), but he's...
I am actually hosting a read-and-release challenge for 2009. It's based on the BookCrossing Top 100 survey results for 2008, and I'll be updating the official point tallies here, with links to the detailed threads in the BookCrossing forum. To post in those threads and accumulate points (and qualify...
Well, I finally ventured into the BookCrossing Release Challenges forum. And one that I've decided to join is the Book Rescue challenge, which is a little like the RYOB challenge, but I must have had the books for at least three years. (Not much of a challenge there.) I've committed to read AND...
Okay, not really, but I declare time bankruptcy. Here's what I'm reading next this year: January: 1) World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow 2) Eden Close by Anita Shreve 3) Light on Snow by Anita Shreve 4) Knit Two by Kate Jacobs 5) Gifted by Nikita Lalwani 6) Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka 7) The Lit...
I am accepting the 2nds reading challenge, which is for reading another work by an author I've read only once before. I will keep track of qualifying reads in this post. 1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. (10 January 2009) The first Steinbeck work I read was The Pearl, back in high school. 2....
Dangit, Kelly! ::sigh:: She has set me on the path to book-challenge heaven or hell, I'm not sure which yet. And now I am doing the monthly version of the buy-a-book reading challenge. I'm already off to a great start. I bought a copy of Of Mice and Men this afternoon and started reading it, and now...
I'm also doing the Read Your Own Books challenge this year. Considering I have a few tons of books, surely I can get through 24 of them during 2009. I'll track my progress in this post. 1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. (10 January 2009) 2. Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh. (16 January 2009) 3....
I'm accepting the 20 Books in 2009 challenge, and this is my progress post. I'll update it throughout the year as I finish qualifying books. 1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. (10 January 2009) 2. Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh. (16 January 2009) 3. Martians in Maggody by Joan Hess. (21 January...
Gaiman's 'Anansi Boys' Big-Screen Adaptation (mtv.com) Twenty years after first publishing his legendary "Sandman" series, Neil Gaiman is busier and more in-demand than ever. Last year's movie adaptation of his 1998 novel "Stardust" wasn't a box-office hit, but "Beowulf," which he co-wrote,...
Time for another brief write-up of my most recently-finished book. The book of choice this time was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which I'd been working on for the past couple of weeks and just finished last night (or rather, this morning). This is number 39 on my list of books read; I definitely...
Movie Title: Stardust Year Released: 2007 Director: Matthew Vaughn Genre: Fantasy / Adventure / Romance Rated: PG-13 for some fantasy violence and risque humor. Basic Plot: A young boy named Tristan lives in a quaint English town called Wall. Aptly named, the town sits next to a stone wall that...
NB: This post is still very much a work in progress. It's going to take a while to get all the links and commentary put in, but I wanted the full list to be available as soon as possible. Enjoy, and check back when you can! Well, actually, it's the top 120 titles, thanks to a 25-way tie for 96th...
Here I will record my progress in the 2009 Books-into-Movies reading challenge. 1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. (10 January 2009) 2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald. (23 January 2009) 3. Coraline by Neil Gaiman. (8 February 2009) 4. A Traitor to...
