We killed a homeless man on this bench. Me and Dru. Those were good times. You know, he begged for mercy, and you know, that only made her bite harder.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Polter-Cow - Dec 09, 2009 8:09:24 pm PST #24144 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I went through my LJ book posts and counted, and I think I'll hit 24 books by the end of the year, but I would have a lot more if you included graphic novels.


meara - Dec 09, 2009 8:18:02 pm PST #24145 of 30001

Hah! Yes, I watch TV. Though I'm kinda behind on the TiVo, having been gone for almost two weeks. I've got season passes to...um...hmm. Glee, Grey's, Flash Forward, NCIS, Top Model, SYTYCD, HIMYM, a few other things....

Mostly it's that I read fast, love to read, and spend a heck of a lot of time on planes and in airports. And hotel rooms. And while only a few of them are YA books, javachik, they're definitely NOT deep reading--they're mostly divided between trashy romances and thriller type things (medical, legal, Dan Brown type stuff, that kind of thing--I get a lot of things at the library or off clearance at the used bookstore, so there's lots of those). And science fiction, but those take a little longer, and I read fewer of those on trips because I'm less willing to toss them when I'm done.

[edit: it evens out, see--the other day, I was on a flight from Hawaii to Spokane. On the airplane/airport for nine hours. I read five books]


megan walker - Dec 09, 2009 8:19:34 pm PST #24146 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Meara, most of those are YA, right? Or a lot of them? You're not reading stuff like Catch-22 and 400 page tomes, right?

I just got Don Quixote out of the library and I swear it's so heavy it could kill a man.


javachik - Dec 09, 2009 8:24:41 pm PST #24147 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

I could read a lot more if I weren't so hooked on Tetris on the iPhone. But when I play, I get a lot of thinking done. Still, I think the height of that addiction is long past me; I haven't played it in days.


§ ita § - Dec 09, 2009 8:28:36 pm PST #24148 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I started reading again shortly before I got the new gig. In theory I could have devoured the library at Alexandria during my unemployment, but I didn't have it in me. Now I'm trying to work out how to balance my week. But I need to put books back in.

I wish interlibrary loan could work like Netflix with only a few things popping off the top at once. Or, say, one. Because I always get overenthusiastic and then dinged.


beth b - Dec 09, 2009 8:30:09 pm PST #24149 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

8 to 12 books a month. mixed , but lots of lighter books. However, there were only 6 books this mont - which I blame on facebook.


bon bon - Dec 09, 2009 8:44:04 pm PST #24150 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

At some point during the summer I decided to start using my lack of employment for good -- or personal enrichment, at least -- and went looking for a top-100 books list to plow through by spring. I found this one: [link] which aligned with what I thought the top books were and what I wanted to read. I started with the first book, War and Peace, in August.

It's December. I'm still unemployed. I still haven't finished War and Peace.


Vortex - Dec 09, 2009 8:45:14 pm PST #24151 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I need to read more. But between the tivo and internet, I only tend to read when I travel.


Polter-Cow - Dec 09, 2009 8:46:16 pm PST #24152 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I read at lunch, on BART, and sometimes a little before I go to bed.


javachik - Dec 09, 2009 8:48:25 pm PST #24153 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Um, I read YOUSE GUYS.