I wish they had nielsen ratings for books then.
It's different, than TV, because I don't really pay for TV so they have to turn around and sell my eyes to the sponsors. But books? I've paid for. So back off.
I just think you're freakin' out 'cause you have to fight someone prettier than you.
Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
Kat - Jul 13, 2012 7:01:02 pm PDT #13781 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
SuziQ - Jul 13, 2012 7:03:45 pm PDT #13782 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I want to go to sleep, but I don't know if CJ has a ride home or not. I think they were going to search until 11pm if they don't find whatever it is before then.
So, unfortunately, the bra is still on and I'm avoiding my bedroom like the plague.
aurelia - Jul 13, 2012 7:04:13 pm PDT #13783 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
We have the A/C on, and when I walk outside it feels like I'll mildew if I stay out there too long.
I haven't been in A/C since Tuesday, so I guess I've just gotten used to it.
DavidS - Jul 13, 2012 7:04:49 pm PDT #13784 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
They track everything that you do with the book, including how long it takes you to finish it, whether you start reading something else,
Heh, I beg the Hunger Games trilogy set the record for Can't Put It Down.
le nubian - Jul 13, 2012 7:05:12 pm PDT #13785 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yes, what Vortex and Cass said.
The whole thing makes me embarrassed, because I have several half-read books!
Kat - Jul 13, 2012 7:14:09 pm PDT #13786 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Me too! I'm like queen of stopping partway through and not finishing. Or reading extremely slowly and reading other stuff in between.
But I have been going to the gym every morning and the nook is way easier for that than a book is.
I think I'm flat out abandoning Gone Girl and moving on to the new Harkness book.
Also, for my petty gripe of the day: I wish people would stop call post-apocalpytic fiction dystopian. Sometimes you have both (AKA Handmaid's Tale) but often they are quite different -- (The Road vs. Hunger Games for exampled). I don't know why it bugs so much when people conflate the two, but it does.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2012 7:15:32 pm PDT #13787 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have a million not-even-half-read books. I can't even be ashamed now. I know as I search on BN.com which ones get read stat, and which ones get read slow, and which ones are going to sit...
Ah. I don't mind them knowing a lot of things, but annotations bother me. Those are my words.
(That having been said, I'd love to see the anonymised info...)
Kat, I leave here around 6:30 and get back 12 hours later, and it's perfect sweater weather still, and I'm sleeping under two blankets. I just feel like I'm not having the same experience you are, even when you were just a few blocks from where I am now. I haven't turned on a fan or AC yet, but I'm assuming that will change by August.
Man, I need to find that big poster of logical fallacies Allyson linked to. I can't work out if a "thing" is a logical fallacy or just something that's annoying me...searchy search time, and also save to my Evernote external memory store.
Amy - Jul 13, 2012 7:22:29 pm PDT #13788 of 30001
Because books.
I don't know why it bugs so much when people conflate the two, but it does.
It bugs me, too. They can be really different, and I like post-apocalyptic better.
aurelia - Jul 13, 2012 7:23:36 pm PDT #13789 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Shrift, your neighborhood has a poster. [link] They probably won't get around to mine for a while.
le nubian - Jul 13, 2012 7:26:29 pm PDT #13790 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Kat,
may be we need to take this to literary, but I have "Gone Girl" on my list. You did not like it?