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Stolen from viridian_magpie.

Bolded - have read
Underlined - read a book from a series or stopped reading a single book at some point

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In an attempt to broaden my reading horizons again, I picked up a detective/thriller novel. The backcover made it sound interesting enough and I kind of liked the Finnish title. Unfortunately it ended up being so offensive that I read only about 50 pages and then leafed through the rest just to see if it got any worse ( Read more... )

Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, 13th chapter (Sam, +7C), rough translation from Finnish:

I was like a bleeding womb where seeds of conscious thought lived in [descriptive stuff that has nothing to do with bleeding wombs]--I can't believe someone thought that was a good simile to put into a book. It doesn't even make any sense! Bleeding womb like ( Read more... )

day 01 → your favorite song (at the moment) [ Poets of the Fall - War]
day 02 → (one of) your favorite movie(s) [ Billy Elliot]
day 03 → what tv programs I'm more or less following [ a list]

day 04 → your favorite book the last book I read for fun (hah, fun)

Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts ( Read more... )

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I'm reading Pratchett's Nation right now and I quite like it ( Read more... )

THE MEME OF SHARING

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

Project Gutenberg has two P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves & Wooster novels for share. I recently downloaded them myself: maybe I'll remember to read them now that I ( Read more... )

Snagged from viridian_magpie because I was bored.

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and bold, those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE. [fingers bleed from coding this already ( Read more... )

In order to broaden my horizons, I'm currently reading The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance. It's a collection of short paranormal romances written by various authors. I'm somewhere around story nine (writing short reviews as I go, so I'll post them when I'm finished), and only one hasn't left me rolling my eyes and/or wanting to bash the author' ( Read more... )