( My Fictional List )

Most of our obstacles would melt away
if, instead of cowering before them,
we should make up our minds to
walk boldly through them.

~Orison Swett Marden

If one is in a bookstore or a library there is no such thing as too many books. However there may be such a thing as too many books checked out from the library at one time. I quite possibly and quite accidentally may have made that error.

( More than you want to know about how many books I'm juggling... )

I'm on my way from misery to happiness today ( Read more... )

I requested The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton, from the library, in hopes of reading it for a book club. The library was swamped with requests for it, so I had to wait many weeks and the book club has long since read and discussed it, but my turn finally came up and I now have the ebook version ( Read more... )

I saw a challenge on Goodreads and it appeals to me. The challenge is called Read Around the USA. The goal is to read a book set in every state in the US.

I plan on doing a variant of the challenge. My goal is to read a mystery set in every state. I read so many mysteries I figure I've got to be a third of the way there, & I can pick away at this ( Read more... )

( My Fictional List )

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

~Robert Schuller

I will do my best. That is all I can do.

~Lyndon Johnson,
after the assassination of John F. Kennedy

If you're being chased by an angry bull,
and then you notice you're also being chased by a swarm of bees,
it doesn't really change things.
Just keep on running.

~Jack Handy