Now and then I will finish whatever I'm reading and nothing in my To Be Read pile will be immediately appealing and I'll be caught up on Entertainment Weekly and Ellery Queen and I just won't read anything for a day or two. It always feels very weird.
Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.
'Not Fade Away'
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.
-t - Dec 09, 2009 8:55:49 pm PST #24155 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hil R. - Dec 09, 2009 8:56:59 pm PST #24156 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Orrin Hatch wrote a Chanukah song. As a "gift to the Jews." [link]
-t - Dec 09, 2009 8:57:24 pm PST #24157 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My dad was just telling me about that at dinner.
§ ita § - Dec 09, 2009 9:02:35 pm PST #24158 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I consume as many words as I did as a teen, I'm sure. They're just all on a glowing screen, and I talk back to many of them. And my narrative fix comes from the teevee.
I should have learnt a foreign language (or three) while I was jobless.
megan walker - Dec 09, 2009 9:05:09 pm PST #24159 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It's December. I'm still unemployed. I still haven't finished War and Peace.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to pace the three big ones -- Don Quixote, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, and War and Peace -- throughout the year so I don't get bogged down. Don Quixote is first because it's what started the whole idea. But it's pretty daunting.
Strix - Dec 09, 2009 9:09:25 pm PST #24160 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I read a lot. But I find that my reading has really dwindled since I moved in with my bf, since when I read, I pretty much have to go hole myself up in the bedroom -- no music, no TV.
And, yo, he has high-speed wireless! DUDE. I've been pirating neighbor's unWPA'd internet for three years, with varying rates of success.
And cable, but really, I'm home all day during the day and have turned it on maybe 3 times in the last few months. (This might be a different story if we had HBO or Showtime.)
I'd say I average about 400 books a year. Combo of genre to heavy -- I'm a ho.
-t - Dec 09, 2009 9:14:19 pm PST #24161 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't know that I read a lot - I read often, but it might be just a couple of pages before I go to sleep or while I'm waiting somewhere, and i might have to read the same couple of pages several times because I have somehow forgotten what was going on, or where I was in the book, or both. It eventually adds up to a whole book, but how many books a year I can't estimate. And it could be anything but it's generally paperback murder mysteries. They're like potato chips. I'm reading one right now, in between posting.
§ ita § - Dec 09, 2009 9:16:38 pm PST #24162 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, tomorrow, in addition to wearing a corset and lipstick, I'm going to start reading the book my sister sent me by a hot new Jamaican writer. I should also clean, but that's lower down on the list.
Strix - Dec 09, 2009 9:26:07 pm PST #24163 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I am going to wear red lipstick around the house tomorrow. I tried some on at the store tonight, and it made me feel smarter.
Do NOT ask me why, I don't know.
megan walker - Dec 09, 2009 9:28:46 pm PST #24164 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Yeah, now that I walk to work I don't get nearly as much reading done (although I do get more regular exercise).
I'm glad I discovered the classic tales podcasts so I can at least catch up with old favorites (he does a lot of Poe, Conan Doyle, O. Henry, Stevenson) and discover new short stories by favorite authors.