Transcripts and other stuff

[residentgeek]

According to the online application status thingy, I have to provide a high school transcript along with my college transcript. I have not found a way to do that online, so it looks like I have to go back into the belly of the beast

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[geonncannon]

I love that there are book geeks like you in the world. It makes me feel less alone. ;-D

[residentgeek]

What? Is this not normal behavior?

My next house will have a library. A dedicated room with floor-to-ceiling shelves on every wall and a nice comfy spot to read in.

Now if I just had TIME to read. Like I told the Montessori kids when they were giving me grief about not having read their favorite stuff: I used to read 5 or 6 books a month. Now it's 5 or 6 months per book.

Wizard's First Rule is 836 pages. I haven't read a book that long since I read Battlefield Earth before CJ was born. I used to read books like that in two, maybe three days. It's been a week and a half and I'm barely 200 pages in. And this is just the first book out of something like 12.

[geonncannon]

It is normal in my book. ;-D I like your idea of a library! If Brother ever moves out (although why would he? Free rent, free electricity, mo-fo has it made) I will petition to turn his room into a library as a reward for helping the family out for so long. My room would be so clean and spacious if I could just get rid of all the books cluttering the place up!

Wooow. I'm lucky that I can fit reading into my schedule. I write during the day (when I do write... being lazy lately for some reason) and then I read from about 10pm until bedtime. I can usually get 50-100 pages a night if I'm lucky.

I just finished a trilogy that reimagined Robin Hood as a Welsh king, rather than British, and that was only 1300 pages total. It was extremely well-done as well... very effective at creating a realistic version of events (His name was Bran, the word for king was Rhi, and "Hud" is Welsh for trickster. So he was called Rhi Bran y Hud and only became Robin Hood when the minstrels started spreading the legend after his death

[residentgeek]

Y'know, I've been meaning to ask if you ever told your parents that you were a published author. And if they know what you published :o)

I don't get to read every night. Sometimes that's my choosing (we watch a movie or TV on DVD or something) and sometimes I'm just wore the hell out. When I do, I typically get to read 20-50 pages if I don't pass out first. Paksenarrion was the first book in a long time that I've had to force myself to put down because it's 1am and I need to sleep, not because I can't keep my eyes open. I do a lot of my reading on the weekends and on any vacations we take.

I think I read about that Robin Hood book somewhere. Probably in Scalzi's Big Idea pieces. Periodically he publishes an author essay on his website where the author describes the "big idea" behind their story, where it came from, what influence it had on them or the story, that kind of thing. I find a lot of good new stuff there.