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My current reading list is mostly fluff, though I ...

2009-08-06T03:41:21.547-07:00

My current reading list is mostly fluff, though I seldom bother to read stuff that isn't fluff. I'm still reading Wicked, which is interesting, but not enough so that I let it mess with my knitting time. I just started some vampire fluff (I think it's called Marked). I'm listing to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows while I fall asleep at night and Magyk (I think I spelled that right) and Tale of Two Cities (through the podcast craftlit) while I knit or wait for Darren. You might like Craftlit. It's done by a former high school English teacher and is all novels. She discusses the chapters, then puts in recordings of the chapters. I know you hate Dickens, but there's some other good stuff on there (and she say's that she hated Dickens at first too). Oh, and Darren and I are listening to Eclipse together (more vampire fluff).

That book about Asperger's Syndrome sounds interes...

2009-08-03T09:23:29.297-07:00

That book about Asperger's Syndrome sounds interesting. A friend's daughter has been diagnosed as having that, but I don't know a whole lot about it.

As for the day only having so many hours: I keep trying to figure out how I can get by on less sleep, so that I can have more time to do things like read and knit, but I'm getting too old to pull all-nighters...although I tried last night.

It seems like 7 a.m. (when my alarm goes off) just gets earlier and earlier.

Yeah. You could have chucked all that Hemingway. ...

2009-08-03T09:20:31.849-07:00

Yeah. You could have chucked all that Hemingway. But I probably should have mentioned that chucking Steinbeck didn't do my grade in that class a lot of good.

But I still maintain that it was worth it. That three-page description of a turtle crossing the road was just too much for me to handle. Of course, it might not have been three actual pages, but it sure seemed like it at the time.

It's the same reason I can't read Tolkien. The man thought he had to describe everything in detail. Which is fine, unless is stops the story dead in its tracks. I actually got half-way through "Fellowship of the Ring"...but only because I was supposed to be reading it for a class.

I just finished Look Me In the Eye by John Elder a...

2009-08-03T04:32:16.262-07:00

I just finished Look Me In the Eye by John Elder about growing up with Asperger's Syndrome which my daughter has. I have The Shack on my shelf. I might have read the first page, but never got around to actually starting. Now that school is starting my reading will mostly be YA stuff. There is only so much time in a day.

After your list, I'm almost (but not quite) too em...

2009-08-03T03:45:59.482-07:00

After your list, I'm almost (but not quite) too embarrassed to say that I'm reading nothing but fluff right now. However, it's darn good fluff (if not too scorchy yet, either), so here goes:
I'm on book 2 of Karen Moning's "Fever" series. I had to get to Chapter 3 of the first one before the hook grabbed me and I couldn't turn away (I leave them, too, if I just can't get into it) but it came highly recommended by a trusted source, so I kept hanging in there and now I'm so glad!

P.S. What do you mean, we didn't have to finish the assigned readings? I could have chucked all that Hemingway?!