Pregnesia won't be remembered as a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, read and adored by millions. If you choose to put yourself through the gauntlet that is Pregnesia, I suggest you read the first five pages, then skip ahead and read the last twenty-five. You won't miss anything.

Life caught up with me last Friday. Everything had been going along swimmingly then BAM! All of the sudden it seemed like it was the longest day of the longest week of the longest month EVER. Ugh. I hate feeling that way ( Read more... )

So the girlies are getting into Percy Jackson, and my recollection of Greek goods/goddesses/mythology ain't what it used to be. (It's also warped by those two years of Latin I had in high school where I had to remember the Roman gods/goddesses/etc instead ( Read more... )

My necklace came today and it's just as lovely as I had hoped. Jaws did good. ;) I'm so happy that I can be a repeat customer to this lady because I want to get the girls each a birthstone necklace for their Easter Baskets ( Read more... )

With Goodreads making it so easy to keep track of my reading, I didn't keep a month-by-month word document like I have in the past. For five years, my only New Year's Resolution was to read 50 New-To-Me books over the course of the year.

If you check out my 2009 Goodreads Bookshelf you'll see that I read 98 new books! I'm satisfied that I exceeded ( Read more... )

Hermione and Ginny (Ginny especially) are starting to get into graphic novels. They've read Rapunzel's Revenge, the Amelia Rules! series (which is ten kinds of awesome!) and the graphic novel version of CoralineGinny asked me for more "books like that", and I'm at a loss. Graphic novels really aren't my thing, and I've really only read the same ( Read more... )

It looks like I'll be R&Ring Wild in the Moonlight for your viewing pleasure! Woo-Hoo ( Read more... )

It's Library Grab Bag Time again, folks! For the outrageous sum 25 cents you get a bag full of random books for your reading pleasure. ( Let's open this year's bag and see what we get, shall we?? )

It's that time of year again...


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A wise person (I think it was coquillagement or Miss_Daizy or russian_ivy) that being on LJ was kind of like being in a sorority (of the very best kind)- during the school year we're all busy, but we check in on a regular basis. When the summer hits, we all scatter our seperate ways, occasionally letting everyone know about fun vacations, good books, etc. I like that ( Read more... )