I JUST read a book for the first time. A whole book! Ok a junior reader version of a book, but the whole thing. I shod have brought 2. This is one reason doing things alone sometimes rocks.
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
msbelle - May 24, 2014 3:26:35 pm PDT #28410 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Connie Neil - May 24, 2014 3:27:35 pm PDT #28411 of 30000
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I just went to the library to get copied of books that I know I own, but I think they're in the garage some where.
Cass - May 24, 2014 3:38:07 pm PDT #28412 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I read more new books when I could read the first chapter crouching in the aisle at Powells before I bought them. Although a few of those are still on my shelves too.
Amy - May 24, 2014 3:45:03 pm PDT #28413 of 30000
Because books.
I've made a real effort the past two years to only read new stuff because I was a serial re-reader for years. Even on really bad days I try to only reread absolute favorite scenes.
And yet more than ever I feel like I'll never get to read all of the books I want to. There are just too many.
-t - May 24, 2014 4:56:57 pm PDT #28414 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm struggling to just get through my fiction magazines lately. Novels and nonfiction = too much.
Keep buying books, though. It's a sickness.
Kat - May 24, 2014 6:14:31 pm PDT #28415 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I have a big stack on my TBR pile -- Quiet and Sixth Extinction top the list. But I'm currently reading Burial Rites which is so damned depressing, while still being beautiful. I just don't want to read a Big Heavy after it. I also have The Girls of Atomic City waiting.
-t - May 24, 2014 6:33:57 pm PDT #28416 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I am making pretty good progress through The Cool Impossible. Running likes carrots.
Calli - May 24, 2014 7:33:06 pm PDT #28417 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I just got back from the theater. I saw Two Noble Kinsmen, a lesser-known Shakespeare play (strictly speaking, Shakespeare and Fletcher, and I'm inclined to think it's heavy on the Fletcher). It was in an outdoor theater, and there was belly dancing and gymnastics before hand, and fire dancers during intermission. The weather was perfect, I was there with friends, and it was just generally a delightful experience.
meara - May 24, 2014 9:10:12 pm PDT #28418 of 30000
One of the good things about all the travel I do is it gives me lots of reading time on planes.
-t - May 25, 2014 5:50:51 am PDT #28419 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It seems grossly unfair to wake up with a stomachache on the second day of a three-day weekend.