Stocking a Home Library?
If you had a home library to stock, would you do it this way? Have you ever been to someone’s home who had done this?
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November 2006
Daily Dose of Life – 101 Update
November was the best month EVER for this 101 things list. No I haven’t managed anything as excellent as drinking Vos water. We haven’t bought a whaley boy car or the perfect house (though we are actually LOOKING for the perfect house, which is sort of a step in the right direction). No traveling was done at all and I spent absolutely no "mommy & me" time with anyone.
I did boring things like clean out my blogroll, clean out my spurls and my bookmarks. I read a ton of non-fiction (have I mentioned I read a lot more non-fiction than I originally thought?) and I sent more birthday cards.
Sounds like a boring month for the 101 things list, doesn’t it? Well that’s because you aren’t aware of the BEST thing EVER.
Christopher’s dead white Toyota – is GONE from our driveway. Gone. For. Good. Donated to charity. Amazing. If I can magic that car away, then I can do ANYTHING! EVERYTHING! The sky! It is the limit!
I love November.
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My g/f, the webmaster
TW: there is a big bee that keeps flying by my window
TW: really big
Denise: lol
Denise: it’s not bee season!
TW: I know but it is like 300 pixels long
Denise: giggle 300 pixels long
Denise: lolol
TW: yes
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What Kind of Reader Are You?
There’s a problem with this meme – the question where you have to choose the “set” that you’ve read all of (or the most of)… I could have chosen all three…I’m sure that means something, doesn’t it?
| What Kind of Reader Are You?
Your Result: Dedicated Reader
You are always trying to find the time to get back to your book. You are convinced that the world would be a much better place if only everyone read more. |
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| Literate Good Citizen |
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm |
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| Book Snob |
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| Fad Reader |
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| Non-Reader |
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| What Kind of Reader Are You? Create Your Own Quiz |
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So, Where Was I?
Good thing I’m not one of those nablomo people, isn’t it? Not that I haven’t been blogging, because I have been – just not HERE. The not blogging here is weird because I have had an awful lot to blog about over the last week or two or three. Having stuff to blog about is good, but what good is that stuff when you don’t have the energy to blog it? No good at all, that’s how much good. ("How much good." Heh, I should say that more often.)
I should sleep more often. Or drink coffee more often. Or some combination of those two things.
Speaking of coffee … about those Starbucks sleeves, well, what do you think? Busy, busy, busy aren’t they? And multi-colored too, what’s with THAT? And, how can all of the stores in my little town be low on holiday sleeves already? (So low that we were double cupped with holiday cups this morning.)
And speaking of sleep, TW is making noise about us NOT getting new sheets for Christmas. This is troubling – we always get sheets for Christmas. Super expensive sheets. I have come to really appreciate these sheets and look forward to them, as long as they are white… Even though they are expensive, and I do not like buying expensive things. You would think I would be happy that TW is not spending a gazillion dollars on sheets this year but no, I’m not happy at all. I wouldn’t be happy if I was hung with a new rope…
Speaking of new rope, uh no, I wasn’t actually speaking of new rope and have absolutely nothing to say about new rope. Or old rope. Sorry.
Killer Dreams
Is Killer Dreams a sequel or something? It felt like it and that bugged me because I hate reading a sequel before I’ve read the original.
Anyway, as with the odd book or two I’ve read by Iris Johansen, Killer Dreams is nothing to write home about. If you want a drama that doesn’t make you think and you don’t mind some silly dialogue sprinkled throughout the story, then you won’t mind Killer Dreams a bit. If you like to read dramatic thrillers at the beach or on some other vacation, then this will do the job.
If you prefer something substantial – something really GOOD, this isn’t it. Try Dexter instead.
The Rules of Survival
TW was pretty troubled by the idea of her kids reading The Rules of Survival. Not that they’ve read this, they haven’t. It’s just the idea that this book is a young adult book – something RJ might pick up off of the shelf – that idea troubled her. It didn’t trouble me at all.
Some kids do live this way and I think all kids should know this. Life isn’t all peaches and cream and sometimes people who say “I love you” are the ones who are doing their damnedest to hurt you. That. Is. Life. For some kids.
Nicely written book. Good ending, which is often not the case with “problem books”. Possibly triggering for kids who’ve lived with abuse or adults who have survived it.
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Chuck Palahniuk?
Until reading Diary yesterday, I’d never read a book by Chuck Palahniuk. I know, you’re shocked. As much as I read, you’d think… well yea, you would wouldn’t you? I’m not sure why I haven’t read one before. I’ve certainly SEEN Fight Club and I’ve certainly meant to read his books before. I think I went so far as to get Lullaby from the library over the summer but I never managed to read it. (Neither did Michelle, and she’s the one who asked me to get it in the first place!)
Anyway, about Diary. I liked it a lot. Very non-horror Stephen King-like in some ways. Very “Fight Club-like” in other ways. I really liked the art lessons sprinkled into the coma diary. I hope Michelle finds time to read this before it has to go back to the library – or maybe she can borrow it from Jared who is a huge Palahniuk fan. I’d hate for her to miss it – and I think this might make a better movie than Fight Club did.
Kate Delafield
Sigh. Detective Delafield, you were not at your best in Hancock Park. Are you showing your age? Or is it Katherine Forrest who is showing hers? I can’t decide. All I know is that I don’t like it and I hope we see improvements with the next Kate Delafield mystery.
The good detective is a drinker and should definitely get that under control. I’m all for that. She’s also the kind of dyke who doesn’t wander around the sisterhood with a rainbow bumper sticker attending empowerment seminars and that should not change at all. Leave the woman alone. Let her do her job and go home to a nice g/f at the end of a hard day. Or let her do her job and go home with a screwed up lesbian relationship at the end of the day. But quit beating her up about not being an active participant in the community. That’s BS and Katherine Forrest should really know better, shouldn’t she?
Yes, she should.