Ah. I'm familiar with it, a little. My youngest niece was big into Monster High and to a lesser extent, EAH, so I had some exposure.

I think I have most of Boo York memorized by now. Some of those songs are pretty catchy.

I do like to read kid's books on occasion, for memories, simple reading, and just because they can be cute. I write, or have been trying to lately (blocked here) and exposure to all sorts of writing styles is good for that.

Trystan: I love The Time Machine, I have read it many times, its quick but its just the perfect little book isn't it.

I need to update my list but I believe I am at 40 or 42 right now. I have been on a reading tear this year, mostly because I don't spend all day on my iPhone anymore.

i agree, Moonshadow!

also, i see 'Ever After' and think of the Hollows series.... XD

Finished one more book, which puts me at 15!
Only 5 more to actually catch up with my list!
XD

I'm sure when 2018 rolls around I'll have another list for that and I'll have to really step into gear if I actually want to make progress. Or, find some very short books that will knock off the specifics.

Maybe next year I'll just go for the flat 30 books and list them as I go.

im just hoping to have the time to read.... looking for work is taking up to much time >C<

Purple Box: good luck finding a job.
I'm losing interest in the book I am reading now. Its called The Boy Who Died and Came back by Robert Moss. It's a bit repetitive.

I'm actually close to finishing my two books but I'm bouncing between each because I don't know which one I want to finish first! My genre book or my other book.

I still find myself interested in my video game book each time I pick it up. I wonder if I can't get away with sliding it under "book on about a difficult topic" as, while it's focus is video games, so far we've looked at them in the context of depression, societal upheaval, life trauma, etc.

The chapter I just read on "Empathy" talked about the different thoughts on video game like Battlefield 3 or Call of Duty in countries like Iran. Video games are encouraged by parents because they keep kids entertained inside where it's safer than playing out in the streets where they could get shot or caught in a suicide bombing. The warfare in the games isn't seen as a big deal because it's what's going on already.

Ugh....I am having trouble staying interested in a lot of my books.
Plus have realized that I really do have a lot of projects I need to work on soon. Only 1 major one though. A blanket that I need to do for a christmas present. But it's going to be an actual good one and not my quick type one that I normally do, so it will probably take a bit longer than normal. Also want to work on my mermaid blanket even though that's not really a top priority project. But finishing it would free up my one blanket loom so that, if I have time, I could make another blanket for a friend because they love Doctor Who so I want to make them a blanket using the colors and general design of the Tom Baker scarf.
Ugh. Sorry for the rant/babble stuff.
XD

tl;dr: Having trouble getting into current books because have too many craft projects.

I'm into a "little bit each day" mode. It seems to be working alright. I read a little from both books, draw a little, make a few more notes on a couple of writing projects, etc. I don't get anywhere very quickly but I do feel like I've done things. My chore for today was doing a load of dishes so I'm into some fun stuff now.

Yeah..I did like...just over 4 rows on the blanket I'm starting on for my dad's Christmas present. I'm still not sure I like the yarn colors, but they're fairly "manly" so hopefully he won't hate it. So after work, my goal is to get a load of laundry in (because I desperately need to wash my work jeans since I only have the one pair currently) and then finish the row I am doing on the previously mentioned blanket and also to read at least 1 chapter in a book and finish the decrease section on the mermaid blanket that I have started. (which is essentially I think 5 rows...but I have decreased quite a bit already plus the stitch is easy, so it should only take maybe an hour on that)

Edit: I lied. I don't have my other job tomorrow. I have it Saturday. Afternoon. So I have time to do laundry tomorrow. And/or buy a second pair of work jeans.

I find myself just reading.
I don't do anything else, and I'm not sure that is too good.
Last Sunday I just spent the whole day reading instead of going anywhere.

I have become a recluse.

Nothing wrong with just reading.
Although I do recommend getting out on occasion.

a day to yourself like that every now and then is ok

Yes I go out too, I don't have lots of friends, but I meet some acquaintances twice a week at the local bar, which is always fun.

I've just been in such a funk lately. Just about everyone I know has been.
We will snap out of it, soon I hope.

I have me book for this year's Reading Link Challenge. Wasn't going to read much this weekend but I can't go anywhere without a book, "just in case." ;)

Decided to just stick my reading challenge lists in my sig. Hah!

I've been trying to go through a list (challenge) it will take me more than 1 year!
I am now reading H is for Hawk. Up to page 30 and have cried a bit. I hope this book is not going to be a torture read like The Lovely Bones.

I remember my teacher reading the into to The Lovely Bones and I noped right there.

I though for a second there that you make an alphabet list and were on H reading a book called "Hawk." (But then I remembered there's a series that works like that.)

Well I have to say that I read The Lovely Bones and saw the movie after my mother died. Before I saw The Lovely Bones I did not understand, afterward I did, so it was very helpful to me.

Ugh! I need to start reading my project book. I just seem to be putting off all my books. I wandered into fan fiction again.

I started two books yesterday, read about 20 pages each and gave up!
Horrible non-fiction. H is for Hawk and Ghost Boy. Too depressing and sad.

Ugh I haven't done much reading lately. Have been too busy with work. XP
Damn morning shifts.

I read a little today but not much.

Two chapters!

The short, easily read chapters, but still...

just finished book #29! now i'm onto #30, with Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne. i haven't read this one before, but i somewhat remember seeing commercials for the Brendan Fraser movie not all that long ago (imdb says 2008... well that feels like 'not all that long ago'!)

and i have another book (#31) waiting for me at the library that i have until next wednesday to get. heee.

i may very well get to my goal of 'more than i read last year' this year! (last year i read 32 books.)

Two chapter is good! I read one chapter today of the book Lily Dale.

4 chapters! A whole 4 chapters! I'm on a roll!

slowly working my way through my current book. Can only get a few pages in between job hunting.

OMG! Read 70 pages of LIly Dale and gave up! That is the third book in a row, that I have not been able to even really start. I am on a bad roll!!!

You certainly are! I hate abandoning books but I guess it's worth it if it's no fun. I've abandoned movies before.

Half way through my current book. It's a good read when my mind won't shut down and i cant sleep. Hope every one is enjoying their summer !!

Quiet: I give a book 50 pages! (obviously sometimes more. If I don't care about the characters or to know what happens in the end, then it really is no point continuing. I abandon movies all the time. I started watching Dune (an old movie from the 80's) and I gave up after 15 minutes. It was so dopey.

I am currently reading The Lost Child and up to almost 100, this one I like and will finish.

I've never seen the old 80s film but I did watch the mini-series. Dune is on my list for a books that's been on my "to be read list" for way too long. I'm interested in the setting though, and it has it's own pile of culture fodder.

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Dune! i love Dune.

*ahem*

uhm.

i'll be getting 'Navigators of Dune' hopefully at the end of the month when it's out in paperback.

I don't plan to branch into the posthumous books, or even the series itself beyond the first, really, but we'll see what happens when I get there.

Finished the short book! Now back to the medium and long books. I should work on Death by Video Game so I can loan it to my sister. I think she'd be fascinated by it.

personally, i've enjoyed all the Dune books... but your mileage will vary, so whatever you do read, it's all good.

also, i finished Journey to the Center of the Earth, which is book #30 for the year, and now i'm reading Dragonsworn - it's another Dark-Hunter novel by Sherrilyn Kenyon. i love her stuff, even if it's all the same formula. XD

I have started another book but haven't finished any!
8D
Lol might have to read some tomorrow if I have time.
Have a lot of craft projects I want to work on and try to finish. And it's my only day off again. XP

@Trystan: I tried watching Dune (the movie from the 80's) I watched 15 minutes, it was so awful. I assume the book is better?

well, a few things here:

1- there's always more in the book than the movie, and it's difficult to craft a movie as well as the book, so you could argue the book is better.

2- i like everything i watch AND read.

so: i liked the book. the movie was.... weirdly done, but that's David Lynch for you. there were a few good things about the movie (and one definitely not good - it wasn't even in the book, so....) - but one of the good things was it served as a primer for the world of Dune, the Navigators, the feud between the two families.... and how to pronounce things like Harkonnen (but then the miniseries went and said it differently... LOL)

if someone wants to read the book, but they know nothing about it, i'll recommend the Lynch movie as a primer, and also for a cast of characters in the book as well.

so.... the book is better overall, but there are good things about the Lynch movie too.

does that make sense?

i think a summer heat wave is coming to where i live >c< I am not looking forward to job hunting now >C<