Stayed up last night to finish The Hunger Games. Reserved the second volume this morning. Thankful that I am only hold #4 because I don't think I can wait that long to read it.

I started Bad Monkeys on the walk back from the library, and I was already intrigued. And then I read some more at home and I seriously wanted to just keep reading until I was done. I stopped myself, though. But, damn, I haven't encountered a true "page-turner" like this in a while.

Stayed up last night to finish The Hunger Games. Reserved the second volume this morning. Thankful that I am only hold #4 because I don't think I can wait that long to read it.

When I read them, that's basically what I did; when I realized I was getting close to the end, I ran to the computer and reserved the second one.

I'm horrible at delaying gratification, especially when it comes to books, which is killing me, because I ordered the 4th Skulduggery Pleasant book from Amazon UK, since it's being released there this Thursday and there is no US release date yet. But since I know it's being release Thursday, the waiting for transatlantic shipping is going to KILL ME.

I am only now reading Death is a Lonely Business by Bradbury. My god, what a writer. The problem with ebooks is it's not so easy to flip to the end to peek to see who's still alive at the end. Too much deliberateness about hopping to the end instead of oh-so-accidentally letting the book fall open at the last page to see who's speaking to whom.

Steph, I have the same problem with delayed gratification so I bribed my brother with Peeps (for some reason he can't find them in North Yorkshire) to pick it up and send it to me. I'm the worst parent though, I "pulled rank" with the kids so I get to read it first - they are not happy at all.

Steph, I have the same problem with delayed gratification so I bribed my brother with Peeps (for some reason he can't find them in North Yorkshire) to pick it up and send it to me. I'm the worst parent though, I "pulled rank" with the kids so I get to read it first - they are not happy at all.

I just couldn't bring myself to pay for express shipping. For that matter, it was release in Australia/NZ in March, and I was soooooo tempted to order it from a bookstore there, but the shipping was more than double the cost of the book at every bookseller I checked. So I decided I could wait until April, but now that April is 2 days away, I'm DYING.

I totally cheated... all it cost me was a couple of boxes of yellow peeps, of course, the flip side is that I will undoubtedly be sending him Big Bang Theory DVD's when they come out soooo it evens out. I seriously thought about calling him today to make sure he was going to stop at the bookstore on Thursday and send the book out as soon as he could. OTOH, I haven't talked to him in months...

I seriously thought about calling him today to make sure he was going to stop at the bookstore on Thursday and send the book out as soon as he could.

If I'm lucky, I'll have it in a week-ish. But probably more like 10-14 days.

And, you know, I have other books to be reading between now and then (notably, Boneshaker [how could I pass it up? steampunk! zombies!]), but I still NEED IT NOW.

I want to read Boneshaker too. I saw Cherie Priest at Writers with Drinks last month, and the book sounded interesting.

Ohhhh Boneshaker looks like it would be a good read. I will have to look for it.