idle musings

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 [...]

I am cataloguing more books today and I appear to have lent out one of my favourite books – Deerskin, by Robin McKinley. If I lent this book to you, please, I need it back. Can y’all check your bookshelves to see if you have it?

My first love is reading. I knew how to read before I hit kindergarten. I have one memory of not being able to read and the main feeling in it is irritation because I’m looking at the comics and I want to be able to read them to myself. I have always had a bookshelf [...]

I discovered this cool site tonight. It’s a community for exchanging used books – give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you want. My id on there is ‘twilight’ if you plan on joining and want some friends. (I want some friends, so join up, dammit!) I think this is a [...]