idle musings

I now have two years worth of books read recorded here on my blog. The reason this is so cool, and will only continue to be more so the longer I keep track – tonight I was thinking about a book I read in 2008. I couldn’t remember the title or the author, but I [...]

My goal for 2009 is to read 130 books. 2009 (88) December (4) The Rich are Different* by Susan Howatch Funeral of Figaro by Ellis Peters Death Mask* by Ellis Peters The Knocker on Death’s Door by Ellis Peters November (5) The Black Tower by PD James The Dark Shore* by Susan Howatch The Death [...]

There is a used bookstore that specializes in mysteries down the street from my new house. I look at it every time I drive by, thinking I should go in there. Today I did, and I walked out with 6 books. Who is surprised? Not me! It’s such a classic used bookstore – the bookcases [...]

My goal for 2008 is to read 35 books. Achieved in April. My goal for 2008 is to read 50 books. Achieved in May. My goal for 2008 is to read 100 books. Achieved November 1. My goal for 2008 is to read 120 books. Achieved December 5. My goal for 2008 was to read [...]

This afternoon I finished my 100th book read in 2008. (Technically, I read 103 but those extra 3 were books I read twice this year, so I didn’t count them.) You can see my list on my books page.

As you all know (because I keep bombarding you with the link) I am on LibraryThing. A few weeks ago I used my scanner to get covers of the 20 or so books I had in my library that did not have a cover listed in the database. For the two books that I only [...]

Literature Map The tourist map of literature. Enter an author’s name, then see what authors are similar. The closer the name to the centre, the more similarities, or the more likely one will enjoy that author’s work. The further out, the less likely.

From Judith Gould’s Too Damn Rich: Taking a long, deep breath of delight, she lowered her mouth and trailed the feathery rip of tongue teasingly along the length of the engorged shaft and then reverentially across the succulent globes of scrotal fruit. Bwahahaha!

Tonight, I finished my 50th book of the year. See the complete listing here. It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog’s love, once given, is not reconsidered; it just is, like sunlight or mountains. It is for human beings to see the shadows behind the light, and the [...]

One third of the way through the year, and I have already beaten by three my original goal of reading 35 books in the year. In February (I think) I upped my goal to 50. If I’m already at 38 now, 50 is just around the corner. I’m thinking I might go for 100. I [...]