Guivre>> talking about animal stories, the Warrior series (the one about cats) ain't that bad :d the last time I read one anyways XD which is like, what? 5 years ago? XD

The book jackets for the Warrior series are super cute. =D I've never read one, maybe I should put it on my to-do list?

I'm about halfway through the dogs anthology. I've got like 5 books due on Sunday, so I really should get going on those. D=

Guivre>> yea, the Warriors books have nice jackets :3 AND they're super-thin and easy to finish XD (compared to adult fictions and stuff :P) one of the good things about my school library is that they don't charge fines for over-due FICTION books XD yay! XD although they do charge if it's a non-fiction :d

Wow, that's a really good policy.

Libraries really need to put on their thinking caps and think up new ways to move books these days. Late fees are understandable, but they don't help with finishing books. D=

lol, yea, and especially during exam time and culminating time for me because I tend to forget to go to the library when I'm focusing on the huge amount of projects I gotta do >.<

Omg, tell me why I bought book A two days before book B, yet recieved book B a WEEK before A?!?!? I just wanna catch up on my list :(

@Roxxy -- er, um popularity of title? D=?

I finished the dog anthology. The last few stories were blah, but I swear to god, there were two paragraphs in the Thurber pages that were the funniest two paragraphs I have ever read. It's so easy to forget just how funny Thurber was, but that story was great.

Guivre>> talking about anthologies, I am slowly plowing through this Anthology called "Firebirds Soaring".....well, less plowing and more reading now actually :P there were these few stories near the beginning of the book that were so boring that I was considering putting the book down (hence the plowing) but then again, all those boring stories all had some pretty interesting topics or plots, so I stuck with it......still, like, 200 pages to go.....or something like that >.>

@LaVida -- yeah, that's the trouble with anthologies. ._. I love them, but there's always that one story you just want to be over. In the dog book, besides the M. K. Fisher story there was this one really blah story about a rather refined guy who would get drunk and ramble on about his former life as a dog (to the narrator) of the story. I probably would have liked that story more if I didn't know furries so well.

The anthology you mentioned looks pretty good, I remember reading a lot of Nancy Springer years ago, but haven't in a long time. Probably because I swore off of fiction. (Which I stopped, for the time being, because I didn't want to lose touch of styles of writing.)

Well, I started reading Venetia Kelly's Travelling Show by Frank Delaney. I really enjoy reading fiction about traveling troupes and such, but I don't like this one so far. The setting is delightful, but so far he's made the lead character's world a bit too pat, and that can be boring as Hell.

Also he didn't make the lead character Venetia Kelly, lol. Or even another central character. His main character is someone who is rather uninvolved with any of the 'action' so far. Which makes sense, because the authors former job was as a television presenter. Hoo-boy, lol. I have to finish this though, because I like the genre and I want to have this under my belt, so to speak.

It just makes me want to go back to Shelfari and see if I can rate up Lily Nevada somehow, lol. That was a very well done little book.

Traveling troupe books are sometimes good and sometimes not for the ones I read. I can't really remember exact ones, but some was good and some was boring....I really like the ones that have a ton of adventure in them though :P

Reading is good. =D

Though it is kind of hard to feel motivated to read this time of year when we finally get to thaw out after winter. D=

Gah!! I haven't posted in this thread for a while! I would do the same as you Bulby!! ^^

Well then you can read books for the blind (I forgot what they were called) although I think your fingers might get tired

yeah, you might get callouses XP and I'd break my back trying to carry all those books home because the books with braille are a lot thicker and heavier because the dots take up more space than the letters we use. Plus, I'd have to learn almost a completely different way of reading the current language XD I'd have to memorized A-Z, numbers, and all the symbols as well xD

I guess that would be a lot of work. Never really realized that lol

Bulby>> well, they're developing this chip-thingy where they put it in your eye and you can see individual colors :) and then I bet soon they will have artifical eyes for you :) (*coughs* if you call 10-30 years "soon" *coughs*)

Bulby>> lmao, are you planning to ruin your eyes? XD

This thread is making my eyes throb. Bad thread! Lol ...

Still reading Venetia Kelly, it's getting better, but the first 70 pages were totally unnecessary except as a writer's exercise the author should have kept in his notes.

I need to read more of my book.....to bad I'm driving to Lincoln otherwise I would read.....Nevermind boyfriend is driving my car. Yay reading time!!

hah hah XD congrats XD nice boyfriend you got there :3 don't forget to say thank you XD