Following along...

[wildrider]

It's Groundhog Day!

I noted a number of people keep track of the books they read on their LJ, and I think I might do that, as well, because lately I seem to forget I've read a book the moment I finish reading it...

So far this year:

Inventing Billy the Kid: Visions of the Outlaw in America, 1881-1981 by Stephen Tatum (although technically I

Comments

[sillymagpie]

God, I keep forgetting Bale isn't American, too. What makes me nuts about losing 63 pounds (probably a third of his body weight) was that he went to a nutritionist once, at the start, then lost it eating fruit and drinking nonfat lattes and such. When losing that much weight that fast, you should be under a doctor's care. You can damage yourself! SHEESH!

It amazes me what actors will go through for roles. Bulking up, dropping weight, gaining weight...their poor metabolisms must be like yo-yos.

Yay, more Killer Bunnies!

[wildrider]

Scary, scary, scary.

[framefolly]

Must. Kill. Bunnies...

And 63 pounds! What a surreal number...

[wildrider]

If I lost 63 pounds, I'd weigh a staggering 108 pounds.

I haven't weighed that little since, I think, grade school...

Bunnies!

[cornerofmadness]

i'll try to breed you a silver

i'm the worst apostrophe abuser ever

the novel i'm currently reading has typoes. That bugs me

[wildrider]

I'll have to set up my IM and see if we can coordinate.

I'm sure I do things that annoy people.... *g*

Same here; there are several in Paths of the Dead, the sort of typo that says someone relied too heavily on SpellCheck, since the spelling is right, it's just the WRONG WORD... (such as "out" for "our" and a few like that); and since I'm reading it for pleasure, those are just the ones I've happened to CATCH.

[cornerofmadness]

these typoes weren't even that. My Uncled shouldered the gun (or something to that effect). Uncled?

[davidatn]

Apparently, the Brits are so fed up with the proper use of the apostrophe, they've outlawed them.

http://tinyurl.com/cevc2t

[wildrider]

I'm one of those sticklers who notice the difference an apostrophe makes... although I would far rather not see it at all than see something like "the mark's of Zorro," which is for me the worst offender (using possessive when a plural is needed--not the other way around).

[davidatn]

I agree. I've even been tempted to carry the Punctuation Repair Kit stickers that came in my copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

And, while I'm not a perfect punctuator, I do dread the results when I'm writing my editor/author friends...what would THEY think?!

[wildrider]

Or a bottle of liquid paper (there was a sign on the front door of one of our buildings that had a misplaced apostrophe like that -- fortunately, it's the building that houses Word Processing, and it didn't stay that way for long. I noticed not long ago that all of them had been corrected).