Xander ,'Empty Places'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
meara, you're a powerhouse.
I need to get as far through White Teeth as I can today and tomorrow, because book club is Tuesday. But I totally miscalculated this month, started reading it too late, and I'm spending a lot of my free time doing freelance work, so... not gonna happen. Bah.
The writing is very good, very vivid, but I admit I'm pretty confused as to where the story is going.
Holy crap. I've only read 31. 32 if you count Adventure Time, Vol. 6.
Oh, 4 of my 12 are TPBs (Ms. Marvel and 3 Hawkeye TPBs).
Wow! I can't imagine reading that much. Of course, if I watched significantly less TV and spent significantly less time on the internet, maybe I could do half that in the same amount of time. I think I have stopped and started more books this year than I have actually finished.
I think I've finished 25 books so far this year. The number of books I read a year has gone down in recent years. (And that's including graphic novels) Dunno why.
I don't watch much TV during the week (because I'm traveling and usually even if I am in my hotel room at the right time for a show I watch, I figure it's better with my TiVo on the weekend), and do a lot of reading then and on airplanes. And at meals. And on weekends...um, yeah. But also I read incredibly fast.
I'll be honest, my book-reading has really fallen off. My reading rate is slow, and my retention stinks if I do read fast. If I like a book, I want to live in it for awhile, walk around with the characters while, and after, I read, imagine the afterward. Transition from the world of one book to another is...not difficult, exactly. But I like to take my time with it. So I don't read nearly as many books as I used to.
I've also shed my need to finish every book I start. I've just about abandoned genre, as well. I read/beta so much fanfic that I get my genre quota there, so I save the book-reading time for something I don't usually get in fic. I get most of my book recs here, actually. And am seldom steered wrong. I can think of three or four off the top of my head that were rec'd here that stay with me still.
I suppose, like the tortoise I am by nature, I don't streak through books I like, I wallow.
I don't watch much TV during the week (because I'm traveling and usually even if I am in my hotel room at the right time for a show I watch, I figure it's better with my TiVo on the weekend), and do a lot of reading then and on airplanes. And at meals. And on weekends...um, yeah. But also I read incredibly fast.
I wish I could read on planes, cars, trains, etc.
I read fast, and I can read damn near anywhere. But things have been just stressful enough for long enough that I'm not reading a lot of new-to-me books, I'm hitting comfort reading. And the new-to-me books I am reading? Lurid gothic and occult thriller/romances.
I just got Cherie Priest's Maplecroft from the library -- has anyone read it?
I think I've read 12 or so novels so far this year. That'll probably fall off a bit once I go back to work this Tuesday.
I just got Cherie Priest's Maplecroft from the library -- has anyone read it?
I started it. But I just wasn't into a Lovecraftian mood, so I took it back to the library. The writing in the first few chapters was good, though. It's on my list of things to try again when I'm in the right head space.