Time for a booklist update. Last time I posted the list, I was up to 42 books. Now I'm at 60, so the whole 52 books/year challenge is obviously over.

You can tell where I was in thesis crunch mode because there are about five romances that I found in the free section of the kobo store all in a row. Several of them were pretty bad, but hey, that was ( Read more... )

Has it really only been two weeks since I've posted here? Feels like a lot longer. I guess that is an eternity in internet terms.

Today is back to school for many. And it's not for me, for the first time in what, 20 years? I though it would feel weird, but it really doesn't. I have so much else taking up my time. Give me a few months, then I might ( Read more... )

So I haven't been posting mini-reviews of books as I finish them this year... But I have been reading. A lot, actually. The 52 books/year challenge is really not a challenge anymore, since I'm up to 42 books already, and I have three more on the go.

I've been reading some classics that I had never actually read before. (Just finished Peter Pan, now ( Read more... )

My brain is just going adslfkjsa;dlfksjadf;laksjd over and over again for a bunch of different reasons. Let's see if I can be a bit more coherent about any of them...

1) Dance recital. It's tomorrow. ASDKFJSAKDF... deep breath. I am so nervous. Not for myself, I know my dances, and I've been doing this for years. For the kids... are these ones going ( Read more... )

So I finally read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I went into with high expectations, since it's so popular and has two movie adaptations and all. I've had people I know tell me to pick my timing carefully when I start to read it, since I won't be able to put it down. So just in case I chose to read it during my break between term work and thesis ( Read more... )

Playing along with W... W... W... Wednesdays (yanked from deborahjross), cause hey, any excuse to ramble about books, and I've got nothing else to post about today (oh, except that I finished all the marking for my TAship today! Yayyyy!)

So, here are the three questions:
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think ( Read more... )

(This post mostly triggered by seeing this article linked to again today.)

I've been semi-following articles rehashing the "omg we need more boy books! boys can't read pink books or books with girls on the cover! think of the poor little boys!" thing, or the gender disparity in reviews/awards/acclaims for books, and well, gender issues in general as ( Read more... )

In which I continue blogging about books... my theme of the week, apparently.

So as I said, earlier this week I made a Goodreads account. I've started filling it in with books I've read this year. So far I've put up reviews for a couple (mainly just the ones I could copy and paste from when I posted about them here), but I've rated them all.

Often ( Read more... )

Catching up my book reviews, part the second. This time just a few quick lines, briefly what I thought of said books, because I really should be working on thesis or paper or novel, all of which I'm procrastinating ( Read more... )

It's a snowy Tuesday afternoon, here at least, so I don't want to do anything except curl up with a book and some tea or hot chocolate. Unfortunately I'm at the office, pretending to do work but really... yeah, not so much. So I might as well write up my thoughts on some books, as the next best thing to reading. The first two Cast books I read in ( Read more... )