Iltu - I love Christopher Moore. Very tongue in cheek Vampire books on his end. I also loved The Stupidest Angel and Dirty job. (Of course I've read them all.) If you like him, you should check out Tim Sandlin. The themes of his books are different, but the tone of the books are similar if that makes sense. Also Matt Ruff's first couple of books Fool on a Hill and the Sewer Gas and Electric trilogy have a similar feel.
Dream- Yeah I also wish more people would get into Kim harrison. She does a really good job with her books and solving problems without death and sex. I like how she goes a different direction than many people who write in the same theme.
Moxie- I've only read his vampire books and Lamb, though I've got A Dirty Job sitting on my bookshelf and waiting. His books crack me up, and I sure do love to laugh. I'll have to read the rest of his books, and look for those books and authors you mentioned.
I'll have to keep an eye out for Kim Harrison books... Can anyone tell me what the first book in the series is?
Iltu: If you remember like three (Oh crap make that six, when did the time go?) months ago when my library just didn't have any books in that I wanted and then two wound up being lost... Yeah they were the Kim Harrison Books. xD
xD
I did complain about that quite a bit because there were about 24 books I wanted that were out for over a month. @_@
After I posted I realized that I basically was expecting you to have been stalking my posts. It would have made more sense if I remembered talking specifically to you all those months ago but... XD
Haha, I don't remember if it was you specifically, but I remember someone having problems with their library not having anything... For some reasonmmy brain insists that Kim Harrison was involved, but memory is a tricky, fickle thing, and she likes to make stuff up all the time. :P
My library is a big network of over forty branches, so you can have stuff sent over from the other libraries. I rarely have a problem getting books I want. Every now and again I've got to wait for a month, month and a half, but it's usually no more than a few days to a week, unless I'm after a really popular book they don't have a lot of copies of. The only MAJOR wait I've had to deal with was I had the Aladdin CD on hold for four months before they got it in. They only have one or two copies of the CD for all 40-odd branches, though my friends and I always joked that the librarians were just hiding it in the back room and laughing at me every time I went to pick up my holds. XD
The sad part is my library has a system like that as well... I think there's about 31 in total, and mine's the largest. So it's a sad day when I can't get a book. T_T
The librarians secretly steal books and pretend the were lost. It's the truth. xD
Awww, that is a sad sad thing. D: *hugs*
You know, if I was a librarian and someone who came to the library a lot was a jerk or brat, I would totally hide books from them.
My local library has a librarian who totally hides books form people and saves them for his friends or regulars. I love being a library regular. I also love how my library lets me reserve books online and then go to my local library and pick them up. Awesome. I find that my librarian actually is helpful- which is a change from the sort I had growing up. I think the librarians then never believed I actually wanted to read the books I was asking for.
Haha nice! He sounds like a pretty awesome guy. My library lets me reserve books online as well, and they keep those holds on the back wall, so you can just go and grab them when they come in.
My favorite librarian is super sweet- last winter, when my dad was late picking me up and the library closed, so I had to wait outside in the cold. She offered to let me sit in her car (which I declined, never get in the car with strangers and all that, even if they are super kind librarians) and let me use her cellphone to call my dad to make sure he was on his way. And then she waited in the parking lot until he showed up, even though I assured her he'd be along shortly and I would be fine. c: So I like her an awful lot.
The librarians at my the library I usually go to are really nice and I really like them. But some librarians just aren't that patient T_T once I wanted to get this DVD from this other library a bit farther from my house, but it was closer to my mom's work place and I asked her to help me pick it up, but then she couldn't find it and she asked a librarian to help her, right? but the librarian just said if the DVD isn't there it isn't there. So, she called me and told me. She sounded so tired over the phone that I biked over myself and the librarian there almost shouted at me saying "IF THE DVD ISN'T THERE IT ISN'T THERE!!! IT MIGHT BE IN SOMEONE'S HANDS, I DON'T KNOW!!!" and a bunch of other stuff. I kind of got a little hurt and I haven't gone over to that library ever since. So if I ever want I book, I always put holds over the internet and get them at my local library.
EDIT: Knerd>> I'm a high school student XD hello Ms.Knerd, what a WONDERFUL Monday XD by the end of the week all the teachers go - TGIF XD. wait, social studies in HIGH SCHOOL??? doesn't social studies get separated into courses after Gr. 8?
I like my local librarians, but I don't visit them as much as I used to, sadly. I used to be in and out of there several times a week, but sadly, I don't have the time to be reading books with a time limit anymore. So I buy all my books, or borrow from friends.
I think I might become a librarian though, when I'm too old to work anywhere else. Because by the time I get old, the retirement age will have been upped to eighty, and there's no way I'll be doing my current job after I turn fifty or sixty, haha...
Risika>>Oh, over here it's actually better to start early as a librarian, you can start part time when you're 14 or 15. People start early because librarians count as government/social workers and they get increased pay per year. like, year 1 = $10, year 3 = $20 and so on and so forth, although I'm not sure about the exact amount or exact increase.
LaVida- Really? Nice! Here, you can get a job as an assistant when you are 16, but you can't be an actual librarian with the real pay and all the benefits and whatnot until you've graduated college with an appropriate degree.
I'm wanting to be a librarian myself. Or, it's at least one of many career options I'm seriously considering.
I haven't been to my local library yet, and I moved 6 months ago. The only thing I've read so far is part of my history textbook. I've got a box of books in my room that I've been meaning to read for at least a year now, so I think I shall take this challenge. I've got seventeen boxes of books in storage...I've read most of those, but maybe this will give me the motivation to finish what I've got started.
Books I'd Like To Read
*Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs
Well, my challenge is officially over!! My year end totals come tooo...
:drum roll:
Total Books: 115/100
Total Pages: 38,822/30,000
Total Manga/Comics: 33/50
Total Pages: 6,524/15,000
(Sad but I just don't own that many. T_T)
:does a dance:
So tomorrow it starts all over again!
Oh and Knerd, I'm going to use the same post, I'll just fix it and prettify it again.
Hmm prettify is one of those words I can never remember is real. :shrugs:
I have always heard about this challenge but was always too lazy to actually take it. xD So sign me up!
Edit: I never made the challenge last year, mostly because I was too lazy. So I'm trying again this year.
:: Jellybean's Booklist ::
- Working on-
Dropped Dead Stitch by Maggie Sefton
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Odyssey by Homer Changeling, by Yasmine Galenorn
~ Completed ~
The Ghost Brigade, by John Scalzy
Witchling, by Yasmine Galenorn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Codex by Lev Grossman
Bitten in Two by Jennifer Rardin
The Deadliest Bite by Jennifer Rardin
Everlost by Neal Shusterman.
Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
2010X
1. Sweep by Cate Tiernan
2. Dyer Consequences by Maggie Sefton
3. The Coven, book 2 of the Sweep series by Cate Tiernan
4. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
5. Covenant with the Vampire by Jeanne Kalogridis
6. Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
7. Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs
8. Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs
9. Through the Looking Glass and what Alica found there by Lewis Carroll
10. Blood Witch book 3 of the Sweep series by Cate Tiernan
11. Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs
12. Dark Magic book 4 of the Sweep series by Cate Tiernan
13. Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
14. Fleece Navidad by Maggie Sefton
15. Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles
16. Deadly Little Secret by Laurie Stolarz
17. Once Bitten Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin
18. Another One Bites the Dust by Jennifer Rardin
19. Biting the Bullet by Jennifer Rardin
20. Bitten to Death by Jennifer Rardin
21. Awakening book 5 of the Sweep series by Cate Tiernan
22. Depraved by Harold Schechter
23. One More Bite by Jennifer Rardin
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I used to read some books in English as well, but after having to read tons of difficult-to-understand academic books for university - all English- I now enjoy reading in my own mother language xD
