I use my bank card with paypal. *Ninja.*

xD I don't use paypal =w=

XP I have nothing to be bale to send it electronically. I usually just wrap the money around a paper and hope the mail people don't recognize the address as a site. Since it's the Trisphee person's name, though, I think it'll be safer, even, than say, Solia or Gaia.

Yeah. Stealing cash in the mail is the big reason that they tell you not to send cash that way. Good luck. <3

._. messing with someone elses mail is a federal offense and yet it still happens.. which pisses me off D<

The worst part is I think it is postal employees who do the messing. o.o

It has to be them.. and no one cares D: except for the people who sent or was to receive money Dx

The problem is you have to catch them, and the only people there in the rooms are fellow workers. v.v

*nods* and they are prolly just as guilty D<

Well, of not reporting it at least.

hows it going in here!
I saved this thread from going off first page!

I'm doing well.

I was going to get a book out of the library, but then I remembered that I had best finish doing my taxes first.

i finisehd my taxes already and got my money back as well.
Not many people post here. . .

I got my local and state taxes done.

Now all I have left to do is the federal ones.

I've gotten back into reading so you guys may see me around. :3

thats great sushi we need more people around

wow i am so glad I don't have to do that! There is only one tax to do here in Canada. Just income tax no government levels.

I just finished a new book. Been messing around on Shelfari too. I love that site. xD I found it a couple years ago but never really got active on it till late last year.

::walks in reading and hits the doorframe::
ouch, you'd think I'd learn.

Hello, figured I'd poke my nose in here, I'm always on the lookout for new authors and books to read. I just finished three books(well, five if you count the ones I was rereading between new books), The Red Pryamid, The Looking Glass Wars and The Land of Painted Caves. Recently had a lot of 'virtual bookcases' type sites shown to me and I sorta live in terror of getting everything up I own, let alone have read.

So, uhm, yeah ::waves:: hi! And why did people have to remind me about taxes, I was wearing my blinders happily, lol

i have never heard of any of those books Fey are they fantasy?
I am have been into historical fiction latley.

Well, lesse, The Looking Glass Wars is definately fantasy, it's a different take on the Alice in Wonderland books. I've been told there's more than one, but I've not gone looking for the next ones.

The Red Pyramid is by the same author that did the Percy Jackson books. So, in a way it's fantasy, but not the way I'd classify it. I'm a huuuuuuuge Egyptian mythology fan, so this was right up my alley, its very heavy into it.

The Land of Painted Caves is the last in the Earth Children series; the one that started with The Clan of the Cave Bear. I guess it would be classified under (pre)historic fiction. While I love the other five books in this series I can't say I loved this one...it felt...rushed? unedited? something.

The first two I would recommend to any reader that enjoys fun, fast paced books with good characters, the last...unless you're willing to invest the time to read over 6k pages to read all the other books too, not really worth it.

But books with over 6k pages are fuuuun. I found the Looking Glass Wars to be...very simple. A nice reading, but I didn't even finish the first one because it wasn't complex enough for my tastes. If that makes sense. =( I'm gonna peek at those other series you mentioned, though, since they sound interesting!

Also, welcome!

Lol.

Also! Keiko! There's a post in the music hangout. But I'll tell you here. After-spring-break schoolwork has overloaded me, but I'm still working on the charts and stuff. =) If you get too impatient for me, you can plug in the info here: http://www.chaosastrology.net/freeastrologyreports.cfm and it's free and accurate and can give you more info that I can't without advanced math (that I can't do), such as a Moon trine Mars and stuff. I'm still going to do the ones out of my book, but it's still fun. =)

I love longer books, but most people sorta look at the big ones and cry in a corner. As to the Looking Glass Wars, I'm not saying it was high literature, or even the hardest read you'll find, but I found it entertaining for my trips too and from work for a day. I mean, I read at an insane pace, so I try not to judge how fast something is for other people.

Depending on what you like I also recommend the Dresden File books; I've only read the first two after coming across them via my brother, but they're really engaging.

:: ponders other things she's enjoyed reading::

Lee Childs is a hit or miss author, but I do love a couple of his Jack Reacher series(Die Trying is my favourite), they're big suspense/actiony books. Avoid Tripwire, for some reason that books drags(a corpse) so slowly it's nearly painful.

That sound like the book from my Honours Literature class in 9th grade. We read Silas Marner and even the teacher hates that book. Before we started, she even had this big speech about how she's so sorry to put us through this and even she wishes it weren't in the curriculum, but she needs a job and so it must be read. An entire chapter, 20 pages, on a conversation between farmers about ghosts and cows, made utterly DULL. Gyuh.

More books to check out! I'm a huge bookworm. The bigger the book and smaller the text, the better. I read too fast, so books don't last that long. =( I need longer ones to make them last longer.

i am a slow reader so I tend to go for simpler books that aren't too long.

I enjoyed Clan of the Cave Bears, but have not read The Shelters of Stone and later in that series.

I almost have my federal taxes ready to mail. I just have to see about a voucher form and the proper address to send it to since they did not send me forms.

Ew, taxes. D; Have fun with that.

It was a bother, and I am glad to be finishing it up.

Angel Spirit Girl- I'd recommend stopping now if you've gotten through Plains of Passage. I didn't dislike Shelter of Stone, but it really starts to bring in stuff that you're not going to care about. The last book I've decided shouldn't have been done, they should have just ended it and left us to make up our own ending.

lol did they do that bad of a job with their ending?

The ending felt less like an ending to a book and more like a 'just stop writing, okay, you've killed it, let the corpse have some dignity'. If you feel you haaaaaave to read it, they divided it into three parts, read the first part. That is all. The second section is 'lets go look at caves', seriously, nearly two hundred pages of it. The third section is almost like a different book, or at least a different authors take on the book.

I sort of know what that's like. I read a series that was pretty neat the first two books, but come the second book, there is an ending and you can totally feel like the author just lost passion for the story and just threw something together just to be done with the thing. It was horrible.

Hummm. I know that some people don't much like Auel's style because she puts so much of her research directly into her work.

I went and wikied the Shelters of Stone so I found out the basic plot.

I actually loooooooove details, and her books got me super interested into studying prehistoric man(I seriously aced all my prehistory classes and had great debates with profs thanks to her stuff). I just had issues with the fact that this book felt so much more rushed/unedited. She was bringing up things every third chapter that wasn't really necessary, it was just rehashing information she'd already given us. A good example was she constantly brought up the definition of a 'fa'lodge'. And we're not talking a one sentence definition, sometimes up to three paragraphs. But she'd already reminded us(it was in the previous book) a couple other times in the same book. I can't help but feel her editor was just not reading by that point.

Well, that book had come out a long time after the one before.

However, yes, sometimes you wonder if the editor of some big authors goes over the manuscripts as tightly as they had before.

Yeah, I expected a certain amount of rehashing past knowledge. I happened to reread the whole series right before this one came out, but most people wouldn't have. Who knows, I may re-read this one in a year or so and not be as upset...but I don' know.

I do like the detail that she puts into the book, especially since it is not set in our everyday world.