Books, Books, Numb3rs Awards
Well I've been struggling lately with my to-read list. Not because I don't have plenty of books to read - I do, I really do - but because I've been sidetracked with the amount of fan fiction I've been rec'd lately. Seriously, I've been reading fan fiction nonstop trying to trim down my to-be-read fan fiction folder but haven't really made an appreciable dent in it. I find that rather alarming because I don't want to suffer burnout - it's happened before - but what can you do aside from try to pace yourself?
Admittedly, I don't have to read it all right now or even any time if I don't want to but it's still easy to get swept up in a Fan Fiction Haze (FFH - we have a support group, yo) and felt like your mind is bending or turning into mush. *tries not to drool* :P
Anywho, I did start in on two new books this week that will count towards my overall goal but I really felt that I should have had them out of the way by now. I keep getting sidetracked by fan fiction. Mostly Merlin based *points to icon*. I have a weakness for Arthurian Legend (well, okay, to be fair, while I was growing up I was drowned in this kind of thing thanks to my mother's love of castles, knights, etc. etc.) or any legend at all. It doesn't hurt that BBC's Merlin is about as gayilicious as you can get *shifty eyes*.
That Said, the icon by thelake :
Is something I heartily agree with.
Anyway. Back to the books.
I started reading Bram Stoker's Dracula on Tuesday. The style it's written in - journal entries with vivid descriptions - took me a while to get into and enjoy but now that I'm past the initial 'er, whot?' faze, I'm enjoying myself immensely. The descriptions are surprisingly rich (if not a little pedantic, though I realize the neccesity of it). I'm going to reserve my overall opinion until I'm finished but really I don't see a reason why I won't enjoy it to the end.
The other book - this one an audiobook - is actually The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks that I'm finding strangely informative and not just from a what-if-zombies-rose kind of way. It gives quite a bit of useful information as well as making you think about what you would do in a survival situation. Also, you know, it's zombies, which right up my alley. The problem, of course, is that it's an audiobook and so I only listen to it while at the gym. I only go to the gym for an hour a day, four-five times a week, and the audiobook is over seven hours long. It's going to take me a bit to finish it.
Oh, and, before I forget, the numb3rs_awards are once again open. I'm not nominated this year (it was exciting last year to be nominated!) but I'm still excited because I use the nominees as a kind of guide to what NUMB3RS fan fiction to read. I'm lazy when it comes to checking communities so this time of year I get to load up on fic (and Don). I'm happy! XD
I've been thinking about writing another Don Eppes/John Sheppard story like my previous 'Eppes in Atlantis'. Not a sequel, necessarily, but maybe something in the same universe. The 'Las Vegas' episode of Stargate Atlantis really works well since, you know, Rodney was an FBI Agent. Oh...man...now I'm going to have to write it. ...
Admittedly, I don't have to read it all right now or even any time if I don't want to but it's still easy to get swept up in a Fan Fiction Haze (FFH - we have a support group, yo) and felt like your mind is bending or turning into mush. *tries not to drool* :P
Anywho, I did start in on two new books this week that will count towards my overall goal but I really felt that I should have had them out of the way by now. I keep getting sidetracked by fan fiction. Mostly Merlin based *points to icon*. I have a weakness for Arthurian Legend (well, okay, to be fair, while I was growing up I was drowned in this kind of thing thanks to my mother's love of castles, knights, etc. etc.) or any legend at all. It doesn't hurt that BBC's Merlin is about as gayilicious as you can get *shifty eyes*.
That Said, the icon by thelake :
Is something I heartily agree with.
Anyway. Back to the books.
I started reading Bram Stoker's Dracula on Tuesday. The style it's written in - journal entries with vivid descriptions - took me a while to get into and enjoy but now that I'm past the initial 'er, whot?' faze, I'm enjoying myself immensely. The descriptions are surprisingly rich (if not a little pedantic, though I realize the neccesity of it). I'm going to reserve my overall opinion until I'm finished but really I don't see a reason why I won't enjoy it to the end.
The other book - this one an audiobook - is actually The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks that I'm finding strangely informative and not just from a what-if-zombies-rose kind of way. It gives quite a bit of useful information as well as making you think about what you would do in a survival situation. Also, you know, it's zombies, which right up my alley. The problem, of course, is that it's an audiobook and so I only listen to it while at the gym. I only go to the gym for an hour a day, four-five times a week, and the audiobook is over seven hours long. It's going to take me a bit to finish it.
Oh, and, before I forget, the numb3rs_awards are once again open. I'm not nominated this year (it was exciting last year to be nominated!) but I'm still excited because I use the nominees as a kind of guide to what NUMB3RS fan fiction to read. I'm lazy when it comes to checking communities so this time of year I get to load up on fic (and Don). I'm happy! XD
I've been thinking about writing another Don Eppes/John Sheppard story like my previous 'Eppes in Atlantis'. Not a sequel, necessarily, but maybe something in the same universe. The 'Las Vegas' episode of Stargate Atlantis really works well since, you know, Rodney was an FBI Agent. Oh...man...now I'm going to have to write it. ...