Ack, I envy you 27°C, it's close to 40°C here and the temeratures are still supposed to climb. The only AC we have in the house is some frozen plastic water bottles I plunked in front of the fans, else we'd already melt or something.
Haha maybe I shouldn't complain then although 27 is hot for here in my defence. Were a funny country, the slightest fall of snow or temp close to 30 degrees C and we grind to a Holt. I like the plastic bottle thing might try that :)
LOL! I hear you about a place grinding to a halt because of weather. Here, it's never because of heat, we're used to that. But two winters ago, snow fell in our region for the first time in (I think) 22 years. Just a few centimeters and you'd have thought everyone forgot how to drive a car. Crazy!
Do snowploughs and gritting, salting wagons come round in your area? Do people have tyre chains? I ask because when there's a 4" snowfall in my country (Britain), everything stops and people die. Some of my online friends, in places where a 12" snowfall would hardly count as real winter, see how ridiculous the British snow-failure is. I'm proud of just about everything in my country but I'm not proud of how we fail at snow. I think it's mainly about preparation with the resources that needs.
It finally cooled off a few degrees in my apartment. I'm getting into a pattern of only opening the balcony door after sundown and getting up before it gets hot to close it, keeping it and the curtains closed through the day to try to keep the heat out.
Luckily, here in Virginia, we do become accustomed to the heat, but I find it amusing that it was 27 degrees C when you wrote this, which is the temperature I maintain in my apartment during the Summer; otherwise, the air conditioning would run all the time. Although I haven't read too many young adult novels recently, if you haven't already read it, I can highly recommend The Book Thief by Markus Zusak... don't wilt away in the heat..
I know, I'm a wimp when it comes to heat but in my defence that's a hot temperature for my country lol. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check that book out.
Good luck with your reading goals. My dad read almost 100 books last year. He listens to loads of audio books in the car/his office though, which I think is cheating. It winds him up when I say that >:)
30 would be ambitious for me nowadays. I think I have read maybe 6 this year. It's cheating if you're not really concentrating on the book. Did you really 'read' it if all you took away from it was a basic understanding of the plot? Might as well have just read a synopsis on Wikipedia haha
We've had a super odd summer so far. It's been quite cool and recently very rainy. I suppose it's not terribly out of character for Buffalo, New York, but I'm ready for the sun and (dry) heat. Unfortunately it's often super humid when it's hot. Blah.
Sometimes I can't put books down and then other times I forget the option to read exists. Do you use GoodReads? They will count the books you've read, if you log them in, and give you a report at the end of the year.
Thanks for the recommendations. How to fix a mechanical heart sounds good, will see if I can get a hold of a copy. Never used Good Reads myself but will check it out :)
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I love the book list! And I totally love reading YA Fiction. I'm a fan of Rainbow Rowell, and I just pinned a list of LGBT (mostly) YA Fiction, that I was going to link in a new entry on here. http://www.buzzfeed.com/farrahpenn/the-most-influential-lgbt-books?utm_term=.drPKDe4AB#.tb8q0E7Pn
Sometimes I can't put books down and then other times I forget the option to read exists. Do you use GoodReads? They will count the books you've read, if you log them in, and give you a report at the end of the year.
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