Finished settling back in. Yay!

And my sister made it back home okay in spite of new snow coming down (which is now sticking to the ground). Double yay!

50 Books in a Year 2008 Final Update:

42. Neuromancer by William Gibson
43. Naruto #27 by Masashi Kishimoto
44-46. Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, and Queen of the Darkness by Anne ( Read more... )

50 Books in a Year Update:

41. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence by Carol Berkin

I finished my last final, so now I can relax at long last. Although, I apparently missed the cops & robber drama down at the medical center; I was already in the classroom at the time, which was about a block away. Oh well. I ( Read more... )

50 Books in a Year Update:

37. The Man Suit by Zachary Schomburg
38. Quipu by Arthur Sze
39. Deepstep Come Shining by CD Wright
40. Strange New Land by Peter Wood

Quipu and Deepstep were really awesome to read. Quipu because Sze is very aware of his diction, and Deepstep because...well, I'm not sure why. It was just a really good book of poetry ( Read more... )

50 Books in a Year Update:

35. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy by Tao Lin
36. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe ( Read more... )

50 Books in a Year Update:

29-30. White Night and Small Favor by Jim Butcher.
31. Eunoia by Christian Bok.
32. The Anger Scale by Kate Degentesh
33. Alphabet by Inger Christensen/transl. Susanna Nied
34. The Lichtenberg Figures by Ben Lerner ( Read more... )

50 Books in a Year Update:

22-28. Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Summer Knight, Death Masks, Blood Rites, Dead Beat, and Proven Guilty

*dances with joy* I've been reading The Dresden Files like a maniac, which isn't really all that hard to do because they're not monster-sized books like Harry Potter got to be at the end. But there's still 10 books, ( Read more... )

50 Books in a Year Update:

20. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
21. Storm Front by Jim Butcher (Book One in The Dresden Files)

Reading Lolita in Tehran was great, but in some parts it felt like reading an English class. Still, an eye-opener into life in Iran in the early-ish 90s.

Storm Front was awesome, and I finally have a book series ( Read more... )

50 Books in a Year Update:

19. Good Omens The Nice And Accurate Prophecies Of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Everyone needs to read this book. Everyone. If you're a sci-fi or fantasy person, you need to read it. If sci-fi or fantasy isn't up your alley, you need to read it. I didn't even really notice the fantasy/sci- ( Read more... )

50 Books in a Year Update:
17. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
18. Cast in Shadows by Michelle Sagara

I kinda liked Cast in Shadows, and I'll probably read the rest of the books in that series. I'm not head-over-heels crazy about it not like Eureka but I won't labor over reading it, at least.

Also happy for ( Read more... )

...but not necessarily in that order.

50 Books in a Year Update:
16. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

I've heard from other people who've read both books (Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons) that whatever book you read first you like best. I guess I prove that right, because I do like The Da Vinci Code better, but both were still great. I also ( Read more... )