I was going to wait until the next page so it's not full of my whining about it. ^^;
It rains all the time here because I live about a mile away from the North Sea. During both of the only reasonable lengths of time I spend 'dahn Sarf' there's been a thunder storm.
I like snow but its been snowing on and off all week so under the layer of 4 inches of snow is that crusty ice/snow which hurts. There's enough on the ground to be fun, so it can stop now. I just got in from shoveling my driveway and by the time I got to the end, the beginning had about 4 cm of snow again. T_T
@kat - this is true. XD <3 next page, then.
that. sucks. D: YOU NEED SOME SUN.
@dani - you know, that's like an inch and a half. that's ridiculous.
@gray - noooodlessss~ now i'm hungry again.
ps.
i apologise. it was an awful connection to make, but out of context it is hilariously funny.
especially when you think about trolls stealing twilight books and cutter being a crazed twilight fanboy. XD
KatMagenta's 50 Book Challenge List
:boogie:
Start date: 29/09/08
End Date: 29/09/09
1. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
2. All Balls and Glitter: My Life - Craig Revel Horwood
3. Coraline - Neil Gaiman
4. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett
5. Astrotruckers - Mikael Niemi
6. Maurice - E.M. Forster
7. Halting State- Charles Stross
8. Jennifer Government - Max Barry
9. All Points North - Simon Armitage
10. Poirot Investigates- Agatha Christie
11. Last Chance to See- Douglas Adams and Mark Cawardine
12. The Sandman: Endless Nights - Neil Gaiman (c)
13. The Sandman: The Dream Hunters - Neil Gaiman (c)
14. Regeneration- Pat Barker
15. Portuguese Irregular Verbs- Alexander McCall Smith
16. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo- Steig Larsson
17. Across the Universe: The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore- Alan Moore (c)
18. Arctic Summer- E.M. Forster
19. Everything I Know I Learned from TV: Philosophy for the Unrepentant Couch Potato- Mark Rowlands
20. The Saga of The Swamp Thing- Alan Moore (c)
21. Little Green Man- Simon Armitage
22. Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
23. Coraline: The Graphic Novel- Neil Gaiman/P. Craig Russell (c)
24. Lockpick Pornography- Joey Comeau
25. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 1- Alan Moore (c)
26. The Graveyard Book- Neil Gaiman
27. The White Stuff- Simon Armitage
28. Torchwood: Border Princes - Dan Abnett
29. Torchwood: Slow Decay- Andy Lane
30. M is for Magic- Neil Gaiman
31. Lord Edgware Dies- Agatha Christie
32: The Wolves in the Wall/The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish- Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean* (c)
33. Antic Hay- Aldous Huxley
34. My Story (From the Eye of the Hurricane) - Alex Higgins
35: Less Than Zero- Bret Easton Ellis
36. Torchwood: Another Life- Peter Anghelides
37. The Big Four- Agatha Christie
38. Torchwood: Trace Memory - David Llewellyn
39. Glasshouse- Charles Stross
40. The Uncanny X-Men Pocketbook: Wolverine Dead or Alive- Chris Claremont (c)
41. Anything Goes: The Autobiography- John Barrowman/Carole E Barrowman
42. Bad Science- Ben Goldacre
43. Lovejoy on Football- Tim Lovejoy
44. The Lives of Dax- Various
45. Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe during the Second World War- Simon Kuper
46. Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football- David Winner
47. Swamp Thing: The Curse- Alan Moore (c)
48. How to Speak Dragonese- Cressida Cowell
49. Bellies & Bullseyes: The Outrageous True Story of Darts- Sid Waddell
50. Torchwood: The Twilight Streets- Gary Russell
51. Thinking Outside the Box- Brad Friedel
52. Torchwood: Something in the Water- Trevor Baxendale
53. Torchwood: Almost Perfect- James Goss
54. The Power: My Autobiography- Phil Taylor
55. We Don't Know What We're Doing- Adrian Chiles
56. The Uncanny X-Men Pocketbook: Night Screams- Chris Claremont (c)
57. Wyrd Sisters- Terry Pratchett
58. The Mysterious Affair at Styles- Agatha Christie
59. Going Postal- Terry Pratchett
60. Murder on the Orient Express- Agatha Christie
61. The Girl who Played with Fire- Steig Larsson
62. The Eye in the Door- Pat Barker
63. The Devil You Know- Mike Carey
64. Motson's National Obsession- John Motson
65. Watchmen- Alan Moore (c)
66. Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Neil Gaiman
67. The Damned United- David Pearce
68. Cloughie: Walking on Water- Brian Clough
Completed overall: 66
Without comics/graphic novels: 56
Everything under here is just being recorded for prosperity's sake, and isn't included in my challenge list.
Audiobooks listened to:
Torchwood: Hidden- Steven Savile
Peril at End House - Agatha Christie
Radio plays/series:
Torchwood: Asylum
Torchwood: Golden Age
Torchwood: The Dead Line
Torchwood: Lost Souls
Seymour the Fractal Cat
Last Chance to See
Comics/manga series:
Sandman
Lucifer
Preacher The Big O
Books I have bought but not read Always in progress >.<
My bookcase cannae tak' it captain!X
The Amulet of Samarkand- Jonathon Stroud
Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid- Tibor Fischer
The Right Man- Nigel Planer
The Man on Platform Five- Robert Llewellyn
Singularity Sky- Charles Stross
Small Gods- Terry Pratchett
The Science of Discworld (II and III) - Terry Pratchett
The Bromeliad (Truckers/Diggers/Wings) - Terry Pratchett
1984- George Orwell
Great Apes- Will Self
The Merlin Conspiracy- Dianna Wynne Jones
Red Dwarf: Backwards- Rob Grant
Colony- Rob Grant
Brothers- Ted van Lieshout
Various Jeeves & Wooster- P.G. Wodehouse
Starship Titanic- Terry Jones
Changing Planes- Ursula K. Le Guin
Deathscent- Robin Jarvis
Soho Square- Various
Gladys Reunited- Sandi Toksvig
The Innocence of Father Brown- G.K. Chesterton
Stephen Fry in America- Stephen Fry
and more!
Italics = in progress
(c) = comic/graphic novel... I need to read more real books. XD
* These both count as one book because of their length and simplicity.
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My list: (It has a lot of plays on there because of my major)
These were all I could think of right now, and I'll add more to the list as I come across them. =3
~50 Book Challenge List - To Finish by the End of 2009~
Finished
1. Medea by Euripedes
2. Her Warrior Slave by Michelle Willingham
3. The Night in Question by Kelsey Roberts
4. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Reading
5. QI Advanced Banter by Johns Lloyd & Mitchinson
6. Gilgamesh, a play by Izumi Ashizawa
7. QI Annual “F” by Johns Lloyd and Mitchinson
8. Historic Costume for the Stage by Lucy Barton
9. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
10. The Book of Animal Ignorance by Johns Lloyd and Mitchinson
Still to Start
11. The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allen Poe
12. The Roald Dahl Omnibus by Roald Dahl
13. Joyce's Finnegan's Wake for Theatre by Mary Manning
14. Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory by Wade Trappe
15. Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce
16. Trickster’s Queen by Tamora Pierce
17. Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce
18. Wolf Speaker by Tamora Pierce
19. Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce
20. In the Realms of the Gods by Tamora Pierce
21. Terrier by Tamora Pierce
22. Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
23. The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce
24. Melting Stones by Tamora Pierce
25. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
I've finished four books so far, with six in progress. I just need to find the time to read two omnibuses. O_o Those are like, 6 books each but I'm counting each as one.
@Gray: So much snow. @_@ I decided to shovel the rest tomorrow, but my dog and I made show angels in the driveway. xD
@leenie: Yeah, it's stopped now.
The library called and my books are finally in!! Unfortunately when I got there (after walking in the snow) it was closed on account of the weather. T_T
The roads were pretty bad, hence why I walked instead of drove to the library. Its just that, they called me this morning. Why call and say I can come get books then less then an hour later be closed. It was already snowing so they had to know they were going to shut down.
Its just that classes resume tomorrow and I really want a book in case I get there really early (I have to find my rooms).
I've never heard of my library closing.. Hehe.
Only during holidays, which is normal.~
Plus, it's like a freaking heat wave outside! I swear, it's at least 30 degrees out there. I took off my jacket walking home- I was sweating.
Anyways, anyone have a good book to share about something wintry? >>
Weird, I could have sworn that you had already started the challenge, Kat. I don't know why I 'remembered' adding your list to the front page.
I'm cracking up, guys. :drool:
But, in good news, I finished A River Runs Through It.
Truly an amazing story. I hate that I never read it before now, I would have fallen head over heels for it just a few years ago.
@Rainbows: If by wintry you mean snow and ice. Then yes, The Snow-Walker trilogy but Cathrine Fisher (my book is newish and is only called The Snow-Walker, but it's all three). If I remember correctly it's Young Adult/Teen but its was a good read. At least for me, but I have weird tastes. xD
Quote:
From the swirling mists and icy depths beyond the edge of the world came the snow-walker Gudrun, to rule the Jarl's people with fear and sorcery. But a small band of outlaws are prepared to risk their lives to defeat Gudrun and restore the land to its rightful leader. This trilogy follows them in their quest, from the first terrifying journey to meet the mysterious snow-walker's son, to the final battle in the lands beyond the rainbow bridge...
@dani - hahaha snow. p:
that. sucks. libraries should stay open all the time.
i don't really have anything else to respond to the rest of you. D:
::cries::
ps.
i am watching batman begins right now. (i have no clue why my torrents are taking so damn long to download even though there are supposed to be 20-30+ seeders, but i am connecting to NONE of them. T_T)
but i can not stop laughing at the movie. i don't know why, it's just funny to me.
am i going crazy? 8DDDD
I must say, this does seem like an awesome thing to start, especially since I'm new. I have most likely read much more then 50 books in a year, since I am a book fanatic. I ready everyday. I can only read romance is what seems to be my problem. I don't get into anything else but that. I am very much into vampires as well. I wish I knew what books to read that have these combination's. I have read the twilight serious, have started when the book first came out 4 years ago. Since that has come to an end, I find myself having nothing to read. So I'm wondering, before I start this challenge, does anyone have any suggestions?
edit; Also any good mid-evil romance is nice as well. c:
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Reason: because.
Medieval romance novels? Well, as much as I hate to admit it, I read one recently that was a real page turner. It was called "Her Warrior Slave", and it's a Harlequin Historical novel. That might be a good place to start.
Thank you very much. I will have to make sure to pick that one up.
: D
I really am in need of a good book. Since I am in fact a loser, and am only into romance novels, it's hard to find a good read. Most of them are kind of, how do I put it? I can't find the right work for it. -__-
Well, most romance novels read like a porn. They're an extremely guilty pleasure.
If you want some meaty good reads, look into His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (It's the Golden Compass trilogy), and another good trilogy is the Inkheart/Inkspell/Inkdeath trilogy by Cornelia Funke. And I love Tamora Pierce's novels, I had a whole list of them somewhere in the thread. I'll post the link once I find my list.
I just got a load of books yesterday, ones I've been dying to read and excited for. Specially "Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler", I've read the first chapter online and have been wanting to read it for quite sometime. Also got 'Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson' cause I've been dying for some poetry and Dickinson is one of my favorites : )
Books are always better than movies. I'm not sure how Inkheart is going to go over with people, probley fans of the book going to see it too see what they cut out and how they did things.
Well, most romance novels read like a porn. They're an extremely guilty pleasure.
I would disagree, even the graphic ones read like romances. You probably haven't read enough porn novels. Shockingly, they read like porn.
Not like you'd want to, but I've read quite a few for professional reasons. :stare: That is not to say I did not find a couple 'fun'.
I like romances to a point. They know their genre. They know their audience. On You know what you're going to get on page 100, 150. They tie themselves in with brands, like "NASCAR." They have lines of titles with "secrets" where you find out a terrible secret about one of the lovers in the middle of the book, or titles based on Cinderella, or any number of gimmicks. They come out as frequently and consistenly as magazines. You have authors who write under five or more pen names. I dunno, pretty fascinating in their own way.
