@ Guivre: yes! 6 is very visually enticing. I would pick the book up and actually read the description. I also like number 5 a lot, but it gives away enough of the concept that I would be more likely to walk past the book instead of picking it up to read the description.

@Kitami: Yay! Alright, I'll see what I can do. Update us on how fast you're going! I loved The Hobbit, and I'm really excited that they're making a movie. I read Fellowship before seeing the movie, but I didn't get through Return of the King in time.

@Kat: Can you get them through Amazon? Syrup is hilarious
Oooh! And as an alternate to Amazon for the UK set, the Book Depository gives free shipping to over 90 countries. It looks like Syrup is out of stock for them, but they have Company.

Way to go, Taiyo! How long have you been doing the challenge?

I've been doing it since last June. Eleven more books and W00T!

Taiyo - Oh ok, Well if you ever run into it, it's a pretty good read :yes: Also HOLY MONKEYS!!! :shock: You're almost done?!? I'm impressed :yes:

Originally Posted by colorsbold

@Carn: I'll try, I promise! Her dad's in on it too. He's actually bribing her to read the series this summer, so finger's crossed.
Also: yes, yes she does have the coolest dad ever. I want to be bribed! :lol:

Oh what a lucky! I wanna be bribed to read too! :o

Originally Posted by `Kitami

:lol: -puts you in a cheerleader uniform-

Hey wait!! Can't we talk about the outfit?!? :gonk:

If you want I can hide it for you....*holds up white cloth bandages*

Uh... :sweat: I'm not sure I'm cut out to be a mummy! heh! *backs away from Taiyo and her mummy outfit* :shock:

Ooh, the second hand Max Barry books on Amazon are a lot cheaper than I remember them being last year. I'm thinking of getting an e-reader this summer so hopefully that'll open up more books for me too.

I'm not sure I've heard of Max Berry. What's he write? Also I see you're thinking about an ereader! Which one are you thinking of? I got a Kindle over christmas and boy it's just awesome :P You can't ever replace a real book of course but it's nice to be able to have so many different books in one place :yes: I especially like that when I finish a book in a series, I can immediately go download the next one :yes:

I was thinking of getting a Sony PRS 350 because I was worried about being tied in to Amazon if I bought a Kindle but the internet hasn't been much use in answering my questions. Lots of websites still say the Kindle isn't available outside the US which is obviously untrue. ¬_¬

@Car'a'Carn -- I know of Max Berry from Jennifer Government. I also want an e-reader -- I don't have much space in my apartment, and would like things to look as not-officey as possible. They also just look fun. So outside of my old books, or the ones that come in my favorite paperback size, I really don't see a problem with collecting books that way.

I think I'll start a new challenge on June 1st. That should also help with the magazine habit I've developed again. Mostly art magazines, but still kind of superfluous in a way.

@Carn: Max Barry is a hilarious writer whose works often satirize/lampoon corporate culture, marketing, etc... and yet, it never comes across as preachy or even pointed, because mostly you're too busily engaged laughing and following the storyline. He's a very funny Australian man. Of his works, I have read Syrup, Jennifer Government and Company... which is all of the books currently published, actually, I just went to check. :P He's got a new book, Machine Man, about to come out. He's also got an adorable daughter about whom he writes on his blog frequently. Here's a bit he wrote about her teddy bears, which made me laugh considerably.

Originally Posted by Max Barry, from twitter

I'm telling my kid that the reason ladies on the radio sing "Turn me on" is they're pretending to be robots.

I follow a lot of my favorite writers' blogs. Does anyone else do this compulsively? I have them all on an RSS feed. Speaking of which, Hyperbole and a Half is going to be put into book form.

@ Guivre: I know what this is like! :glomp: I just added a 'zine section to my book list the other day so you guys wouldn't think I'm just some slob who never reads anything at all. :sweat:

@ Carn: Oh, you're not getting out of it that easily...it would cover the outfit at least! *starts walking towards you with a smile on my face*

Carnie:: Yes, we can talk about the outfit. You can either wear red and black, for my high school, or green and gold for the local university. :insane:

...I get the feeling I don't like where this is going.....

:lol: You don't think he'd look stunning in a cheer uniform? XD
Its not like he would have to wear a dress. There's male cheerleaders too. *__*

Kita finished The Return of the King!!
Parrttaayy!
:boogie:

Pahaha, I was lurking in the spy and saw the beginning of your post Kit.. I just had to find out what you were talking about!

Silly Carzee. :lol: :hug:

@ Kit: I know there's male cheerleaders! But if he doesn't want to wear the uniform, I've always got an alternative........

I'm so over being sick :(

You've been getting sick a lot lately.

Yay, Kitami, yay! I shan't be able to catch up, I don't think.

Reading The Belgariad, currently. :)

I know :(

on a us side I'm currently reading the Harry potter series from start to finish :)
<3

Colors:: My mom promised she'd watch all the movies if I finished the series before mother's day. -victory-

Sweets:: Kita was going to do that, but I'm reading the Anita Blake books from the beginning instead. The newest one is coming out soon. :eager:

Sweet- Harry Potter is always a good choice! I've got to reread those books soon.


Augh, no! My mother was cleaning and she moved my book and doesn't remember it. :gonk: I just want to read The Resistance. ;a; I swear, leave your stuff somewhere for ten minutes and it gets moved...

@ Sweets: I don't blame you for rereading Harry Potter. And you might want to get checked out if you keep on getting sick so much.

@ Iltu: I know the feeling....

Oh, I want to re-read the Harry Potter series before the movies come out... they're my weakness, those books. I've already reread Sorceror once this year. :yes:

Do you guys ever read Top Ten fiction and non-fiction? Generally, I try to avoid it, but one of my age-old writing mentors has this irksome habit of lending me a two-to-three book stack of "popular literature" every time I see him. The anarchist in me rebels against such nonsense. Bleh. Yet I want to teach English, eventually; certainly I'm supposed to read popular fiction? Largely, I don't want to. Majority rule should not be applied to literature...

Still. what if I miss a gem?

Here are the two top-ten lists from Entertainment Weekly.X

Teehee. Yes. My family gets that magazine. I am not ashamed.

Originally Posted by Mass-Market Top Ten

1. Water For Elephants by Sarah Gruen
2. The Search by Nora Roberts
3. A Game of Thrones by George Martin
4. Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
5. Chasing the Night by Iris Johanson
6. The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark
7. Caught by Harlan Coben
8. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
9. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
10. The Burning Wire by Jeffrey Deaver

Originally Posted by Trade Top 10

1. Heaven Is For Real by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent
2. Water For Elephants by Sarah Gruen
3. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
4. The 9th Judgement by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
6. A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
7. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
8. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
9. Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz
10. Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

*I smallerized doubled titles

Are you guys familiar with any of the books on these lists?
Would you recommend reading any of them? (or really, really recommend not reading them?)


I'm trying to broaden my horizons/reading-list a little. Which is hard. I am a literary hermit, and I have my preferences. :sweat: