Also known as book #5, George, Nicholas, & Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I. I finished it at last ( Read more... )

I could've spent all day yesterday reading and getting two more books done. But after reading most of the day, by evening I didn't feel like it anymore. So I stopped and did something else. Because one thing I promised myself when I finally graduated from college was, that I would never again force myself to read if I felt like doing something else ( Read more... )

Already making strides towards the new list - I got the book about the "100 Fashion Must-Haves" using the BookCloseouts.com voucher I got yesterday. I also got a cookbook I've been wanting, the next Haruhi book, and three non-fiction books I've been coveting (about the history of American Chinese food, an ancient Native American city in Mississippi ( Read more... )

Update, update! JUST in case you were wondering, as of today I've completed 43 of my 101 goals! Yessssss

That puts me pretty much at 43% (that extra 1 throws off the calculations, but it's just easier to do 43/100 = 43%). And it's been 495 days, which means 49% of my time has passed - almost half over (how the time flies!). So I'm a tad behind, but ( Read more... )

A good first day.

I didn't have to be in until 1, because they have a meeting Monday mornings and I would've been sitting there with nobody to train me if I went in the morning. So, I met up with my dad, bro, and bro-in-law to have lunch at Trolley. I got a delicious salad, which is good because that afternoon my stomach decided to rebel on me, and ( Read more... )

I hate when I rate a book on Goodreads, and it posts to Facebook, and within two minutes someone is like, "That book sucked," or "I hated it," or my favorite, "I love that author but that book is crap!!!"  And for some reason I'm the jerk if I say, "I don't care what you think.  At all."

I mean, why even comment?  I just gave it five stars, ( Read more... )

And after a full month of not writing a single word, I am overwhelmed with the MIGHTY NEED to write.  In fact I think I am going to go home early to do so.  I haven't written anything since finishing "The Bees of Mecrie," but I have at least three story titles, a first line, and a vague plot in my head (none of these to the same story) that I need ( Read more... )

Confession:  I have started several books this week and have been purposely not finishing them for the last few days so that I can count them towards 2012.  Oh well, I'm the one who's in charge here!

( Books ahoy! )

Random coincidence!  (I come across these all the time and think they are CRAZY, but I don't write them down and so I forget them.  So I am going to put this one here.)

Reading The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya last week, I was on the story about the baseball tournament and Haruhi decides to choose batting order with a random lottery.  When Kyon ( Read more... )

Holy crap!  HOLY CRAP!  There is an anonymous(ly awesome) gift giver out there!

I got an Amazon box today and was like, "Hmm, I don't remember buying anything that would be this heavy," so I opened it and behold!  There were two fraud investigation books from my wishlist that, as previously stated, I did not buy.  Also, a gift notice from Amazon ( Read more... )