Sometimes you read a book and you kind of fundamentally know it's not good, but there's something about it that appeases you. It's kind of like powering through fan fic that has some questionable characterization just so that you can get to the hot and steamy parts of it.

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One of the things that I promised myself that I'd do this year was to get back on track with my reading. I usually read at least forty books a year, but last year I only read twenty-three. It was a stressful time, and I just couldn't focus enough on anything. I would check out books from the library, finish one or two of them, and not get around to ( Read more... )

WOW, it has been a while. I've had a mix of Big Real Life Things happening (my mom's back in NC right now to see about my grandma, for one) and Fun Real Life Things happening (I WENT TO THE BSB CONCERT AND HUGGED THREE OF THEM AND IT WAS AMAZING). In addition to that, I've been trying to get myself together, and tomorrow I'm going to a job fair ( Read more... )

I have been cleaning in some way, shape, or form all day, since my plans ended up being abandoned.

However, I did find a cool read: Holly Black's short "The Coldest Girl in Coldtown", which has been expanded into novel form, with a release date as-yet unknown.

Yes, it is YA lit about vampires; but no, it is not in the Twilight vein (no pun ( Read more... )

I have been weaving like, almost all day. And mostly, it's because it's soothing. But mainly, it's because it's part of something that I'm working on for 3D design.

( Picture of the big kind, because trying to explain this is complicated. )

One of my favorite books of all time is The Westing Game. I read it for the first time in fifth grade--it was one of the last books we read during the school year, and while I was reading it I found myself skipping ahead because I could not put it down. This was a big deal, because while I had been able to be that engrossed in assigned reading ( Read more... )

On Twitter yesterday, I mentioned that I wished I could start a podcast ( Read more... )

This is one part book post, one part blah blah blah post!

I finished reading The Fault in Our Stars earlier this week, after putting it off for weeks because I was convinced it was going to make me cry. Having cried (or, at the least, gotten very teary) while reading books before, I tend to want to do it when I'm alone and not in public. I got ( Read more... )

If you watch enough TV and enjoy it in a non-passive way-in the kind of way that those of us who are in fandom and tend to get very into our shows do-you might have thought up the kind of show that you would one day like to watch, if only you had the connections and money to create this show ( Read more... )

Since the last post, I have become a car owner. It's a dark blue Nissan, and I still have to get used to it. It all happened kind of fast--Dad and I ended up on the lot intending to just look, and then there were forms and lots of reading. It was kind of overwhelming, but, y'know, I can handle it ( Read more... )