I've had quite the flying experience lately! My flight back from Colorado was plagued with delays and I ended up having to stay overnight (on United's dime) in Chicago. The hotel just happened to be next door (quite literally) to the arena where the Grateful Dead had played that night, so my hotel was full of dead heads in various stages of ( Read more... )

I'm back from vacation, where I had a wonderful time with my sister and her two daughters (ages 13-almost-14 and 11). I've almost finished unpacking and doing laundry and have nearly reconciled myself to going back to work tomorrow ( Read more... )

ok, so maybe goodreads is a bit addictive. I'm supposed to be working, but I keep thinking of books to add!

I can't wait for my beach trip next week!! I'm hoping to do a lot of reading on the beach.

I had a strange experience in the Duke library today. Someone recommended Gore Vidal's The Smithsonian Institution to me a few weeks ago, and ( Read more... )

Yuck...I had the worst time going to sleep last night! I must have been keyed up from playing racquetball, and why oh why did I drink that Mountain Dew? Anyway, I was up finishing A Fine Balance (so depressing) and after I finished, I just could not fall asleep. I kept thinking about the characters in the book, and how unfair their (fictional) ( Read more... )

I joined the LibraryThing ...thing and am putting my books in slowly. I've got about 96 books in there so far and am shocked to see that I've tagged 44 of them as unread! After I finish this bout of library books, I need to do some serious reading at home!

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users as of 9/30/07. As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand.

I must say I'm a little surprised at the books on this list...It seems like they should be among the most read, or maybe I'm ( Read more... )

Well, I finally finished The Stand. It took me about 2 and a half weeks. I am so glad for it to be over! I mean, I loved the book. The story is just incredible and now I want to own the miniseries. HOWEVER I was so paranoid every night as I sat up reading that there was someone in my apartment, or watching me or something ( Read more... )

Well, as it turns out I didn't actually read that much in April! It's been a busy month! I've actually been so tired at night, and I've had so much company, that I've not been able to read like I usually do. But here's what I did manage to acoomplish:

( April books )

Every now and then I get a little tiny bit of insomnia. It's always because I did something stupid, like play racquetball at 10 pm -> my adrenaline is pumping! THEN I drank the remainder of my diet sunkist which is not caffeine free. Plus I have to be at school and ready to work at 9:30 so no sleeping in to compensate ( Read more... )

( just some brief comments...no time for analysis! )