Kat: Oh, I see. Everything is free in my library, also the school library. I mean, for the city library, you pay a small annual fee - less than the price of a CD - and then you get books, CDs, movies and audiobooks all free. Of course the school library is just part of the tuition, I don't really know if they have any interesting audiobooks there.
All the same, I do think audiobooks should be included in the book deal. Yes, they are on CDs or tapes, but they are, essentially, books. Movies and music used to cost extra at the city library and I can sort of understand that, but I think audiobooks should be treated the same as "regular" books.
Ahah, I probably would be too. Our game happened in London but it mostly happened in made-up houses and flats. Though I have to say, I might get a bit more jumpy than before in the halls and lifts of big apartment blocks in general. xP
Aww, poor cat. You should've gone into your parents room and cuddled her a bit until she fell asleep. :P
Mmm, I'm having a lazy day. And my mum made absolutely delicious food. ^_______^
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Treasure Island and Kidnapped by R.L.Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker (really pretty paper back copy)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillip Gregory
Cerulean Sins by Laurell K. Hamilton
Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Traitor to the Blood by Barb & J. C. Hendee
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
O.o I hate you Dream. There are never any book sales where I am. My mom can find her books on sale easy but I can't. I've been dying to own some Laurell K. Hamilton besides D.M.
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In other news, I've started the 5th book in my Maximum Ride Series, I'll have to put it on hold though so I can read my AP Government book and do that cause the stuff is due in like..3ish weeks.
Iltu: I was obsessed with Oscar Wilde for about 10 minutes (I blame Wilde the film, darn you Stephen Fry) and I just happened to get my iPod at that time. My mum named her iPod Harrold for no apparent reason and my dad named his Frodo because his computer is called Gandalf.
Willow was the runt of her litter and she didn't even make a proper noise while she was still a kitten. No meowing or anything. Then she suddenly found her voice and hasn't shut up since (she'll be three this summer I think). She just likes being fussed over really.
Dream: Yay for bargain books. As long as you can carry them all. ^^
ljos: I'd like to think my library uses the money to buy new stock or improve their buildings but they're probably trying to cover against things being stolen.
Oh ho, I like the cut of your jib! Sometimes I get confused when Bertie reduces everything to letters. Es and B for breakfast and whatnot.
This seems like a fun little challenge! I suppose I'll start.
Just by finishing my summer reading for school, I'll knock a few books off. I have to read Beowulf, either Hamlet or King Lear and The Power and The Glory, all within two months... ._.
I've never actually done all of the summer reading before. I normally just read Sparknotes and forget about it. But it's my senior year of High School, so I might as well go out with a bang, right?
@Stormy: I'm always looking for Laurell K. Hamilton books. I want to own them but there are to many for me to feel comfortable buying full price. xD
@Iltu: This one was so crowded, it was indoors and at first the air wasn't even on. @[email protected] I was a little up set because they didn't have fantasy or teen books separated. Everything was either Fiction, Non-Fiction, or Scifi. It was so frustrating.
@Kat: I had two tote bags with me, plus another person. xD
@electinae: Lucky, those are some nice books to read. I think I read all those during my senior year.
I always read my summer reading but I never did any of the projects that came with it. I'm lazy like that.
Dream: Yeah, I get what you mean. The only reason I got D.M was because it was on sale for 25%. Usually I can get her books at this little place that is a book trading place but you can also buy used books for really cheap. I haven't been there in awhile though, cause she usally just has the Merry Gent. book (which I don't read >.> )
@Iltu: Well, its about a tribe of Native Americans... I guess I liked all the emotion... And how the author described the prejudice and the hatred and the sorrow. Its also thought provoking. And its interesting how the author spins it around too to show that the native americans are also racist and prejudice to other people... and that society is kind of a circle of hate.
Kat- Oscar Wilde is like so very fantastic and I cannot even explain to you how much I love him. The Picture of Dorian Gray is OHMYGAWD awesome. <3 One of my favorite classics, along with The Hobbit, To Kill A Mockingbird, White Fang, Of Mice and Men, and anything by Shakespeare. Oh my gosh, an iPod named Harrold is amazing, and Frodo and Gandalf!? Haha, that's great! I wish my dad named his technology objects cool names. D:
Awww, how sweet. Willow is a lovely name. :)
electinae- Best of luck to you! I don't think I've ever not read a book assigned to me for school, but soemtimes I wish I was able to just trust sparknotes or something. XD;
Dream- The one I went to was indoors as well, and you had to wait in line to just move through the books, it was so packed. But at least they had the air on, you poor thing. D: Ugh, that would be annoying.
Thoth- Oh, then I will definitely have to read that. It sounds amazing.
@Iltu: yeah there were lines for mine as well. It was really bad when I bent down to get books from the boxes under the table and people backed into my face. @[email protected]
Iltu: I do like Oscar Wilde, I was just annoyingly obsessed (also known as shut-up-now-Katie obsessed) for a little while.
Willow's sister was called Twigs which sort of matches. It matched her in any case, she was as mad as sticks. :')
electinae: Have you done any work on Beowulf yet? I'm curious about it but I haven't read it. We have Seamus Heaney's 'new translation' of Beowulf in the house but because I had to study his poetry (all either about his dad or potatoes) for GCSE I have my reservations.
Dream: When I went to the last book sale at my library instead of having it in one of the conference rooms it was upstairs in the art gallery. It's a modern art gallery though, and one of the exhibits was a video of a woman dancing to Britney Spears. So I spent the entire time trying to block out the same few verses of 'Oops I did it again' being played over and over. :gonk:
:tosses money at shadow:
I really don't have money for books either but I need to stock up for when I'm out with my surgery. So I'm going without some food. xD
*stabs her loan officer and lets out a vicious roar*
Ahhhhh! They've delayed the closing on my house... how am I supposed to read when all my books are packed up and I can't unpack them until after the move...
Ugh, I am SO easily intimidated by books! I started Lord of the Flies a few weeks ago and got a few pages in, and haven't touched it since. The book is relatively small, but the text is MICROSCOPIC.
jkdfd I need to make more time for reading.
I should be doing it now, in fact.
Even though I said I was going to update my list yesterday I've only just done it now. Mind like a sieve.
I'm undecided what to read next. I've mentally narrowed it down to another Poirot book, Starship Titanic or finally starting The Girl who Played with Fire. :/
I was thinking about reading Going Postal again too, but that'll probably only take me a couple of nights.
I added The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Anne Brashares to my read list. And now I'm almost finished reading the 3rd book. These sisterhood books really aren't that bad. Waaay better than the movies. I'm on a summer reading kick so I'm reading books that take place during the summer. :D
Wee~ Just finished Wizard's First Rule ^__^ It was a really good book and I'm thinking of picking up the next in the series a little later. Technically, it would be for my fiance since it's his book that I borrowed, but then I could read it afterwards.
Currently working on Mistress of the Art of Death. It's alright, started out shaky to be honest. I don't like the author's writing style and I have a bad feeling I've solved the murders and I'm not even halfway through. So far I'd rate it to be a 3 out of 5.