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It was a fairly decent year, book-wise. On the one hand, I feel that I should’ve read more, as I certainly had the time… On the other, some great choices.
I spent time with some excellent authors, read some classics, and dipped into quite a few excellent comics.
See the 50 Book Challenge list for 2009
I now [...]

I just powered my way through a ton of books over the past month+… a lot of them in the last week or so, as a nasty cold has got me down. I am a very bad person, as I did not jump on reviewing them, as I should have. So, instead, I must torture [...]

When I was very young, our town had an Encore books. It was a special kind of bliss, because it was like the library, but all the books were new. It’s from this book store that I got my set of the Chronicles of Narnia. I spent hours browsing their selection of Babysitters Club volumes. [...]

Shen The RB Git: I have to finish reading Negotiating With the Dead, then Julie & Julia. And hopefully that will take me to the end of August and Nonfiction Month will be over.
Sreya (of the Pocket): Hahahaha
Sreya (of the Pocket): I could’ve recommended to you SO MANY GOOD NONFICTION books
Sreya (of [...]

Go me, I finally fixed the category display that was bugging me! The categories are now in nice collapsible menus. You can now see the author tag cloud without any problem. And there’s only one search bar. It only takes me a forever to fix these things.
Now I have to find a new book. Guh.

I am WAY behind in reviews, so the new handful are going to be short and sweet.
I blame it all on J.R. Ward and her incredibly engrossing vampires. Damn sexy vampires. More on them when I’m not supposed to be in bed.

So, another year is winding down. A lot happened this year. I’ve officially finished my work for college and ‘graduated’. That means no more books I’m forced to read for classes. I also finished writing my senior thesis, which was a piece of fiction.
In other news, I finished the 50 Book Challenge for this year [...]

This summer I have managed to do quite a bit of reading, for which I am very, very happy. I have also done quite a bit of writing, which also makes me happy. But the summer is winding down now, and that means school obligations are going to start encroaching. Which probably means less frequent [...]

I know, I know, I totally lied about catching up. Now I’m looking at the lists of things to write about and it’s getting scary. Goddamn.
I’m going to do my best to blast through a few, nevermind the intricate reviews and close readings. (I hate that term, ‘close reading.’)  My professors would be shamed.
And LOOK, [...]

Really!
School always knocks me for a loop. On the other hand, you’ll get some nice reviews caught up over winter break, including Oryx & Crake, Jitterbug Perfume, some plays, a little Shakespeare… Oh, and fantastic chick lit that was so good I bought the series. Yeah, THAT good.
See you in ~one month! -ish!

This summer was rather slow, and I know it. It was all those blasted Harry Potters. That and lounging around online instead of reading. Bad me.
The fall semester has started now and I’ve got my books all lined up. I’m planning reviews of:

Cat’s Cradle (begun, LOVE)
Oryx & Crake by Atwood
Fun Home (comic)
And a bunch of [...]

Crapmonkies, I knew it had been a while since I updated, but APRIL to AUGUST? Geh.
I’m not dead. Or ill. Just lazy.
I have been reading–in fact I reread Harry Potter this summer. I’ll post about Deathly Hallows later. And probably ramble on quite a bit about my thoughts on the series as a whole. It [...]

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