i've been quite stessed out this year, and i haven't done any reading for pleasure since ... like ... january. isn't that terrible??

i've started to reread shadowmarch because i wanted to read shadowplay, but i can hardly remember shadowmarch.

i think my life is WAY too busy. i need to slow the heck down.

I'm still working on The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon.  I only have about 20 pages left but it's taking me forever.

Book is very good, I just can seem to concentrate well.

My biggest problem with reading good books, is I tend to rush through them, get to the end and think "I wish I had read that slower."

Stefan wrote:

That's another of my problems. I read Shadowmarch way too fast and remember little about it, so I can't read the sequel yet. I'll have to reread it, or I might wait till the final one is out, then read all three in a row.

Yeah, I read Shadowmarch quickly when it came out in hardcover, and since I hadn't read it since then, I barely remembered many of the events of the first volume when I read Shadowplay. Slowly, I remembered some things, but I don't recommend doing it that way.

My latest amazon order showed up. Night Watch, Day Watch and American Psycho.

I'm not gonna read any of them, though. I'm waiting for the third book in the Night Watch series before I read those. American Psycho I just read and loved so I had to own it. I'm prolly gonna read the first three Ripley novels by, uh, what's her name... Patricia? Highsmith? People keep telling me I'll like them. *shrugs*

What? No TBR stockpile?

What kind of disaster training DO they give you over there? We have our flashlights (with batteries), candles, bottled water and ....

BOOKS!!!!

Wish you lived closer. I'd jest run over with a pile of wonderful Summer reading.

Now, now, Jen. There's more than enough to go around.

I live in a friggin' library. The books and bookshelves move in first when we move.

Magpie wrote:

*throws a book at Jen*

no, wait, that was wrong.

*mourns the loss of her book*

*intercepts, at the 10-year line*

*runs book up the field to hand-off to Magpie, who buttonhooks to bed*

And the crowd goes WILD!!!!

(Jen, that is definitely off-sides and holding! Fer shame!)

Ack! A quarter-back sneak play. I call fowl *quack*

Would you look at that tight-end? *drools*

That is such an illegal move, Jen! You cannot rough the passer.

Half the distance to the goal line!

*looks under the seat cushions for Jen's virginity*

Didn't find it, but found these *hands Jen a handful of linty coins*

I think there's doctors who will graft a new one on.