So I happened to see the 50 Books in a Year challenge group on LJ a while back, & it got me curious about how many books I read per year. So far, the count's up to 15.

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I'm currently in the middle of one of those India books where the heroine is forced into an arranged marriage when her family finds out about her unsuitable love for a man of a lower caste. I'm at my favorite part in books like this -- their wedding night, when the new husband, despite having a monstrous family, is being a sweetheart, and says that ( Read more... )

Finished The Biography of Ayn Rand about a month ago, and found some hastily-typed thoughts on it in (what else) an old Word document just now. The book was absolutely fascinating, and it was inspiring to read about a woman accomplishing more than ye olde Marriage and Children (funny how I always rolled my eyes at women ranting against that when I ( Read more... )

I've been carrying around a pocket full of pebbles all week, smooth largish oddly-shaped ones I found by the barn while I was helping Dad put the roof on the new chicken coop. I've been keeping them in the pocket of my sweatshirt to fidget with, I love the feel of them in my fingers. One's elongated and bumpy, like the handle of a bicycle, one's ( Read more... )