Anyway, I'm currently hiding in my room while my parents have a dinner party. I've been social for like two hours straight, so I figured I deserved a break.
Oh, and question - I'm thinking about buying a Kindle with my Christmas money. Pros? Cons? I travel a lot, I have limited space for books in my dorm room, and I want to be able to read embarrassing things without being judged for it, so I think this might be a good idea.
Oh, and quick pimp: I thought some of you guys would be interested in A Year of Feminist Classics. It starts this month with A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft and So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba. I'll definitely try and take part, but I'd like not to be the only one!
I don't have an e-reader yet, but my library has been running a thing on their homepage about comparisons between models for the last week or so. It's here if you want to take a look. Also, the romance novel blog Dear Reader has done a lot of that sort of thing, too. I know that the Kindle isn't compatible with my local library's available ebooks, which is why when I get one it won't be that, but that's the only huge negative that I know of.
I think I've probably mentioned this before, but I've had trouble getting into reading on a ereader. I didn't think I was going to be that person, but I want my physical books! In particular, it drives me crazy that I can't easily flip backwards and forwards with an ereader.
The only thing I'd caution about a Kindle in specific is you can't download library books on to it. And while most libraries don't seem to advertise it well, there are a ton who offer ebooks.
...I am so that person. XD It's just not the saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame. Pages! Visual memory of where the words were! The book smell! And, yeah, on a more practical note, being able to fact-check back and forth. /weird continuity nerd
Oh, perhaps I should actually join this comm as suggested...I wonder if it will let me post right now without having done that?
Anyone have book-related resolutions for 2011? I've been doing "read 25,000 pages" for the past years and failed completely in 2010, even though I had no problem for the past 3 or 4 years. I'm wondering if I should go with a number of books instead, maybe 100? What are you guys doing?
I just want to go back to keeping track of what I read. I did spreadsheets of books read in 2008 and 2009 and then just abandoned the practice this year and I wish I hadn't done it. I just want some idea how much I'm reading, you know?
I'd also like to kind of do a "classics you should have read in school" thing, maybe at least one a month. We'll see.
Do you use a website of some kind to keep track of books? Maybe that'd be more fun than spreadsheets. I'm on Goodreads.com and it's really fun. The only annoying thing is that it's harder to keep track of re-reads.
Oooh, that's a good idea! I often end up just reading books like this month's pick instead of more serious literature ;) So I'm a bit lacking in that department. If you end up making a list or something I hope you'll tell the comm about it, maybe it'll inspire me!
I haven't before, but I might look into doing Goodreads. I think part of the problem I'd have is with rereads, though. Because as a general rule I don't read anything new to me before I go to bed, because I fear getting sucked in, and so I end up doing a lot of spot rereading and I never know how to classify that stuff.
I will definitely do that! I think I'm going to go looking for one of those best books of all time lists and start there. I need something to make me finish reading Gatsby finally.
I'm reading Matched by Ally Condie, which, okay, my main concern about this book was the love triangle, and I'm not sure if I want to say it's well done or not because it is in some ways, but, um, I also kind of don't believe she's really in love, so that's probably not good.
It's also making me want to read adult dystopia literature. I'm a big proponent of YA, but most YA isn't written in style conducive to that kind of backstory, if that makes sense? I just feel like I don't know enough about this world.
I think I like it when the dystopia's cause/effect isn't like, the main concern--some of my favorite novels have it as a background, but something else is the central conceit. IDK.
YES! Or, like I'm more interested in how they experience the world than necessarily rebelling against it? Like with the Hunger Games again, I don't care about them rebelling and creating a better world. I was interested in the world presented. I wanted to find out more about it.
My reading resolution is to plan out almost all the books I will read that month so I don't get too stuck in a particular genre and then tire of it and not want to read anything else
I'm still doing this, too. Even though I failed horribly at it last month, haha. What are you doing for this month? I think I'm sticking to my idea of trying to read mostly Dresden. I don't know if it's realistic or even good to read them all in a month, but it might be fun.
I do want to get off my butt and go to some book signing.
I'd try and read the Dresden books quite close together, if possible - once you get to about the fourth book (IIRC), there are a LOT of callbacks to previous books. I've ordered the latest one, and I'm just really hoping that I remember all the things I need to, since I don't have time to reread them all.
That's good to know! I was kind of wondering about that, in a way, just in terms of buying vs getting them from the library. I knew I might want to go back and check stuff.
I have two more books (that I'm in the middle of) to finish and then it's back to Dresden. Though I still only have the first three in my possession at the moment.
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Anyway, I'm currently hiding in my room while my parents have a dinner party. I've been social for like two hours straight, so I figured I deserved a break.
Oh, and question - I'm thinking about buying a Kindle with my Christmas money. Pros? Cons? I travel a lot, I have limited space for books in my dorm room, and I want to be able to read embarrassing things without being judged for it, so I think this might be a good idea.
Oh, and quick pimp: I thought some of you guys would be interested in A Year of Feminist Classics. It starts this month with A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft and So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba. I'll definitely try and take part, but I'd like not to be the only one!
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I don't have an e-reader yet, but my library has been running a thing on their homepage about comparisons between models for the last week or so. It's here if you want to take a look. Also, the romance novel blog Dear Reader has done a lot of that sort of thing, too. I know that the Kindle isn't compatible with my local library's available ebooks, which is why when I get one it won't be that, but that's the only huge negative that I know of.
Oh, excellent! Thank you for the link.
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The only thing I'd caution about a Kindle in specific is you can't download library books on to it. And while most libraries don't seem to advertise it well, there are a ton who offer ebooks.
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Oh, perhaps I should actually join this comm as suggested...I wonder if it will let me post right now without having done that?
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Anyone have book-related resolutions for 2011? I've been doing "read 25,000 pages" for the past years and failed completely in 2010, even though I had no problem for the past 3 or 4 years. I'm wondering if I should go with a number of books instead, maybe 100? What are you guys doing?
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I'd also like to kind of do a "classics you should have read in school" thing, maybe at least one a month. We'll see.
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Oooh, that's a good idea! I often end up just reading books like this month's pick instead of more serious literature ;) So I'm a bit lacking in that department. If you end up making a list or something I hope you'll tell the comm about it, maybe it'll inspire me!
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I will definitely do that! I think I'm going to go looking for one of those best books of all time lists and start there. I need something to make me finish reading Gatsby finally.
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I'm reading Matched by Ally Condie, which, okay, my main concern about this book was the love triangle, and I'm not sure if I want to say it's well done or not because it is in some ways, but, um, I also kind of don't believe she's really in love, so that's probably not good.
It's also making me want to read adult dystopia literature. I'm a big proponent of YA, but most YA isn't written in style conducive to that kind of backstory, if that makes sense? I just feel like I don't know enough about this world.
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I think I like it when the dystopia's cause/effect isn't like, the main concern--some of my favorite novels have it as a background, but something else is the central conceit. IDK.
YES! Or, like I'm more interested in how they experience the world than necessarily rebelling against it? Like with the Hunger Games again, I don't care about them rebelling and creating a better world. I was interested in the world presented. I wanted to find out more about it.
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I'm still doing this, too. Even though I failed horribly at it last month, haha. What are you doing for this month? I think I'm sticking to my idea of trying to read mostly Dresden. I don't know if it's realistic or even good to read them all in a month, but it might be fun.
I do want to get off my butt and go to some book signing.
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I have two more books (that I'm in the middle of) to finish and then it's back to Dresden. Though I still only have the first three in my possession at the moment.
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