If you've been with me awhile, even just lurking, you will know how much I love changing my layouts. Even though I loved my previous Green Spring version, it took a huge amount of willpower to resist changing it early to the Orangey Red Autumn one that you see now, because autumn is without a doubt my favorite season. I love everything about it ( Read more... )

Not that this has anything to do with anything, but I went grocery shopping the other day...and had my lowest bill yet since moving! It's really exciting. I think I'm really learning which foods I can use as staples in any meal, and which foods are worth splurging on. I don't buy soda for myself anymore - I only buy milk - and I allow myself two ( Read more... )

Was AWESOME. I am so glad I got the second and third one today, because I'm definitely going to inhale them. Along with anything else Scott Westerfeld has written. It's times like this that I really wish I could write coherent book reviews. Westerfeld has such a way with words, and that was what originally won me over. But then, to have a ( Read more... )

I have started grad school, and am through week one of six. One of my classes is a literature course that discusses Tolkien and his deliberate attempt to create a pre-christian mythology for Britain. As such, our required reading includes The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and of course, The Lord of the Rings. So over the course of these six (now ( Read more... )

Just posted to 50bookchallenge because book 11 was so good I had to share. My review isn't that great, because I'm exhausted and really ought to go to sleep. But simply stated: READ In the Time of the Butterflies.

That is all.

Goodnight.

I'm not restless, exactly. I'm actually pretty tired, and will hopefully be in bed within the next half an hour or so. I can't read before bed to relax my mind, because I'm at the end of HBP right before Dumbledore and Harry get back to Hogwarts to find the Dark Mark above the castle, and really, how can you pick a stopping point once you embark ( Read more... )

I am finally beginning to feel like myself again. Well, I am still relatively sick, but it's fantastic feeling like me again. Two days ago I started rereading the Harry Potter books, and so far I'm already on the third one. Not bad, I don't think. They really do the trick for me ( Read more... )

This is basically a recap of the books I have read over the past year. While I by no means reached the set goal of 50, I'm still pretty pleased. For the most part, this does not include any fanfiction that I have read, with one major exception.

(1) The Wandering Unicorn - Manuel Mujica Lainez
(2) Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
(3) Peter Pan - J.M ( Read more... )

Book 4 was ( Welcome to Lizard Motel. )

Just finished reading Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist.

( Breathtaking )