I already renewed them... it's that I work, go to school and have a 3 year old. On top of that we've been going to doctors appointments a lot more and have been moving... so I really just don't have any time. It's a nightmare.

I'm baaaaack!

Yippee! I've finally got the lates volume of D. Gray-Man in!

Yeah, the HP fandom was probably the first big fandom phenomenon since Star Trek -- and to my knowledge, it was the first to take advantage of the internet. I remember reading fanfic on my dad's old computer, still running Win NT, I think, back in 1999. As such, and because the books were so widely published and translated, the fandom was/is worldwide and attracted a wide spectrum from society.

Plus, Sirius/Lupin and Harry/Draco were far too tempting!!

LOL hehe i will have to agree to those fandoms anime. smiles then giggles those are usually the ones i read whenever i'm in the mood to read fanfics.

Most yaoi fanfics I've found are just....well..wrong. I've got a friend who's writing a Death Note fic that's got some yaoi in it, and it's very well written. I guess it's just part of me that says I won't read yaoi unless it's well written.

hehe i don't think i blame you any at all. a well written one is better than one that was just thrown together and you can tell it was even if i do prefer some originals like what my boyfriend is writing.

Originaly stories are better, I agree...as long as they don't suck. But reading about you're favorite characters in a new setting is pretty fun.

Yes -- it both amuses and saddens me to read bad slash/yaoi/yuri. Young authors get tititllated writing boy/boy or girl/girl, but never think about, well, the "plumbing." Or, more often, they don't consider the fact that in the real world, and in many of the fan worlds, gays and lesbians are stigmatized. As a bi who still hasn't really come out to her RL friends (partly because I'm already married), I can kind of understand the fear, and I've read very few fanfics which address the social issue of yaoi/yuri/slash.

*climbs down from soap-box*

I've got nothing against homosexuality. If I married a guy and he told me he was bi, I'd just say "so?"
I've even got some RL friends who're bi. No problems here! Still love 'em like sisters...even if stupid DCFS ripped one away from us! :cry:

Yeah, for me it's more like -- well, so I'm bi, but I'm married, and so what good does it do to make a point of it? And more than 50% of my department is gay or lesbian or bisexual (and we have one gender-changed person, who began the program female but is now male), and that includes the professors.

So? I've got no problems with it.

But I'm still mad at DCFS!

*shrugs* I don't really have a problem with it, either -- I'm just saying that in my current situation, I can understand the difficulty of coming out better than I could as a 13-year-old who thought she was straight.

Originally Posted by FeyonaSaibre

I feel HORRIBLE!! I just returned a bunch of books to the library because I haven't had time to read them at all... T_T It makes me wanna cry.

Ugh, I hate that feeling too!

But with libraries, at least you know that the books will still be there when you have time to read them again. It isn't as if they'll disappear forever after the due date. :lol:

Okay, I'm going to start with all the books I've read since July 1st, if that's alright...

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FINISHED.
1) Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson.
2) Montana 1948, by Larry Watson.
3) Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See.
4) Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, by Jeff Kinney.
5) Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, by Jeff Kinney. [I know, I know... I was bored. xD]
6) Paper Towns, by John Green.
7) Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green.
8) Bruiser, by Neal Shusterman.
9) Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd, edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci.
10) Catcher In The Rye, by J.D. Salinger
11) My Losing Season, by Pat Conroy.
12) The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger.
13) The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown.
14) Q&A, by Vikas Swarup.
15) Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson.
16) Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown.
17) Pride and Prejudice (Simplified Version) [I'm so ashamed of myself, really xD]
18) Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow.
19) Living Dead Girl, by Elizabeth Scott.
20) Hate List, by Jennifer Brown.
21) A Child Called "It", by Dave Pelzer.
22) The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold.
23) Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher.
24) Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, by Bryan Lee O'Malley.
25) Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, by Bryan Lee O'Malley.

IN THE PROCESS OF READING.
1) The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles.
2) My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult.

PLANNING TO READ.
1) Charlie St. Cloud, by Ben Sherwood.
2) Catalyst, by Laurie Halse Anderson.
3) By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead, by Julie Anne Peters.
4) Trigger, by Susan Vaught.
5) Change of Heart, by Jodi Picoult.
6) Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen.
7) Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell.
8) Bee Season, by Myla Goldberg.
9) Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness, by Bryan Lee O'Malley.

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25 down, 25 more to go? x)
Who knows, I might shoot for more than 50, hehee. : D

Welcome, Crunch. =D

I'm still chugging along after finishing those three huge books last weekend.

Originally Posted by Knerd

Ugh, I hate that feeling too!

But with libraries, at least you know that the books will still be there when you have time to read them again. It isn't as if they'll disappear forever after the due date. :lol:

Meh... I know... but it feels like I'll never have time to read anything anymore... my life is so cluttered it's driving me mad...

>.> oooooooh! Knerd looks sexah!

Thank ya!

And welcome aboard Crunch! I'll add your post to our master list right now. :)

Hiyas! Finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets last Saturaday...and then went nuts until my mom and I got back home. I didn't think to bring HP 3 with me!

:lol: At Knerd's signature!

~~~~yayyyyyyyyy!!!~~~~~~~

Just bought A Lick of Frost (Merry Gentry) for 50 cents at the library ~~~ <3 me ish happy <3 I wonder if I could collect the whole series that way @_@

@Guivre&Knerd- Thank youz! <3

I'll try to get started soon... which might be in a couple weeks... XD

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Oh! Never mind! I edited just now! : D
And I made it pretty... hehe.

@ Knerd

I was looking at the list of users, who have been added to the challenge. I saw that my name wasn't on there, if it wouldn't be too much trouble could you add my name as well?

Sure thing! Can you link me to your post?

Thank you ^^

http://www.menewsha.com/forum/commun...-dare-596.html

I'm back after a long AWOL period.

If anyone goes AWOL for random periods of time it would be me. XD
:posts two posts then disappears for three weeks: Whoops!

So how is everyone doing this fine event? I should probably go look around the event threads... >.>