yes, what Vortex and Cass said.

The whole thing makes me embarrassed, because I have several half-read books!

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.

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.

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.

Shrift, your neighborhood has a poster. [link] They probably won't get around to mine for a while.

Kat,

may be we need to take this to literary, but I have "Gone Girl" on my list. You did not like it?

Me too! I'm like queen of stopping partway through and not finishing. Or reading extremely slowly and reading other stuff in between.

The one interesting thing I read, and I couldn't pull a cite out of my ass, is that nonfiction (and I am recalling but not certain that it was things beyond biographies which sort of have a "life story" feel to them) is more likely to be broken up or not finished and that it was sparking people to think about putting out smaller works (for less monies, I assume) that people would be more likely to finish.

I mean, I love nonfiction like whoa but I know I read it in fits and starts. Something that is shorter and maybe serialized? I am not totally opposed. I have a huge book on evolution and one on scientific breakthroughs that I feel like I need to be able to invest at least four hours at a time to before I'll open them.

Yeah, I was going to read it, too, but maybe not.

Logical fallacies site: [link]

Poster: [link]

Shrift, your neighborhood has a poster.

FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE. And I love the poster for the Loop.