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Heh, Last night's entry was pretty short. I felt the need express my feelings on completing my random act of insanity, but with no internet connection I had to run over to the university to do so. As a result I got kick out for being in a building that was suppose to be locked. Oops. I expected it to be, but I thought I'd try it since the computers in the SLC have been acting wonky. Well, my mistake.
Today I read a romance novel written by one of Becky's friend from her writing circle. I really, really enjoyed it. It was very romance novel-y, but in a good way and the characters were interesting and it was well written. The stylistic voice reminded me of Elizabeth Beverly a bit, but it was all regency England. According to Becky she told her friend she'd read it, but she hasn't got around to it yet. Now she's planning on just giving her friend my view. Do your own reading and analysis Becky! You're a grown adult! Beside you've been saying you want to read a regency romance.
ASIDE FOR BECKY: Anyways, you can tell your friend I enjoyed it very much and if she has anymore books I would love to read them because her book ranks among my favorite romance novels.
Yesterday I was so excited about shortening my "books to read that I own" list, but sadly because of a trip to Chapters today the list is back to its original length, which is 18 books. I bought two books by Robert Shiller. Paul Krugman kept mention his book on the Dotcom bubble "Irrational Exuberance" with great respect in "The Great Unraveling", so I wanted to read Shiller's book. The bookstore didn't have it, but I did find Shiller's newest book "The Subprime solution" and an earlier book he co-authored "Animal Spirits" which I believe my Econ 102 Professor greatly admired. I also got a book on the connection between globalization and urbanization. Urban planning is an interest of mine. I'm proud of my purchases. I think I should be applauded for not buying the book on Walmart, or the biography of Milton Friedman, or the book Milton and Rose Friedman wrote , another book by Galbraith, or the HARDCOVER fantasy novels by Patrica Wrede and Neil Gaiman. One thing I definitely agree with Krugman about is there are a lot of junky economic books many with New York Times Bestseller on them.
Now all I need to do is decide whether to paint my bookcase yellow or leave it with only its white base coat. Once that is decided and the bookcase is painted, or not painted, I can put my many, many books on it. They don't look like much when they're stacked, but my [badly put together bookcase that I bought a screwdriver for] will be overflowing. And I don't even have my textbooks for the new term yet!
Not that there are going to be very many this term. Aah, the cheapness of re-using textbooks. That's how I'll justify the expense of buying the books I bought. I'm not buying a textbook for my Government expenditure class so I bought books written by a leading Yale Economist. Heh, I guess that means I have books by leading economist from Yale (Shiller), Havard (Galbraith), AND Princeton (Krugman), also (three) by World Bank economists.
CONCLUSION: I have way too many books and some day, likely very soon, my non-fiction books will outnumber my fiction books. As a bonus, I probably have far too many books on economics, politics, or both to be really healthy for someone my age.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! Comparative advantage, Fed, Adverse Selection, NeoLiberalism, Current and Capital Accounts, Deficits, Lobbyists, Tulips!
Today I read a romance novel written by one of Becky's friend from her writing circle. I really, really enjoyed it. It was very romance novel-y, but in a good way and the characters were interesting and it was well written. The stylistic voice reminded me of Elizabeth Beverly a bit, but it was all regency England. According to Becky she told her friend she'd read it, but she hasn't got around to it yet. Now she's planning on just giving her friend my view. Do your own reading and analysis Becky! You're a grown adult! Beside you've been saying you want to read a regency romance.
ASIDE FOR BECKY: Anyways, you can tell your friend I enjoyed it very much and if she has anymore books I would love to read them because her book ranks among my favorite romance novels.
Yesterday I was so excited about shortening my "books to read that I own" list, but sadly because of a trip to Chapters today the list is back to its original length, which is 18 books. I bought two books by Robert Shiller. Paul Krugman kept mention his book on the Dotcom bubble "Irrational Exuberance" with great respect in "The Great Unraveling", so I wanted to read Shiller's book. The bookstore didn't have it, but I did find Shiller's newest book "The Subprime solution" and an earlier book he co-authored "Animal Spirits" which I believe my Econ 102 Professor greatly admired. I also got a book on the connection between globalization and urbanization. Urban planning is an interest of mine. I'm proud of my purchases. I think I should be applauded for not buying the book on Walmart, or the biography of Milton Friedman, or the book Milton and Rose Friedman wrote , another book by Galbraith, or the HARDCOVER fantasy novels by Patrica Wrede and Neil Gaiman. One thing I definitely agree with Krugman about is there are a lot of junky economic books many with New York Times Bestseller on them.
Now all I need to do is decide whether to paint my bookcase yellow or leave it with only its white base coat. Once that is decided and the bookcase is painted, or not painted, I can put my many, many books on it. They don't look like much when they're stacked, but my [badly put together bookcase that I bought a screwdriver for] will be overflowing. And I don't even have my textbooks for the new term yet!
Not that there are going to be very many this term. Aah, the cheapness of re-using textbooks. That's how I'll justify the expense of buying the books I bought. I'm not buying a textbook for my Government expenditure class so I bought books written by a leading Yale Economist. Heh, I guess that means I have books by leading economist from Yale (Shiller), Havard (Galbraith), AND Princeton (Krugman), also (three) by World Bank economists.
CONCLUSION: I have way too many books and some day, likely very soon, my non-fiction books will outnumber my fiction books. As a bonus, I probably have far too many books on economics, politics, or both to be really healthy for someone my age.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! Comparative advantage, Fed, Adverse Selection, NeoLiberalism, Current and Capital Accounts, Deficits, Lobbyists, Tulips!