Book #15: Mother’s House Payment by Ronnie Schiller
I thought this was well done. I like her pacing. I like her voice. She is descriptive without going into lists like I do.
She’s tribe and a better writer than me. Damnit.
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This series of books is the best.
Book #14: Your 5-Year-Old Sunny and Serene by Louise Bates Ames
Oh man. Now I’m looking forward to five. This whole “Wild and Wonderful 4” crap is getting old. I hear I will be the best thing in the whole wide world. I can live with that for six months or so.
I’m going to read this whole series in a week. I can tell.
Book #10: Alanna The First Adventure: Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce.
I freakin love this book. I am so glad my friend handed me the first four books in the series. I like the plot exposition. I like the language. I like the characters. Just plain win. Excellent. Now that I have children comatose on the couch maybe I can catch up on reading.
The book starts out with the main character as a 10 year old and it only lasts till she is 13. This is going to be wonderful to read aloud in another two or three years.
#11: In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce
#12: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce
#13: Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce
Slowly reading.
Book #9: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond.
Oops. I didn’t mention that I really enjoyed this book. I highly recommend it. I found a lot to think about.
I am officially four books behind already. Maybe I’ll go read some of those candy-coated YA books a friend loaned me.
Supposed to be reading.
Book 7: The Myth of Ability –it’s about teaching maths. It was ok but very public school formulaic. Book 8: Animal Farm by George Orwell. No, I’ve never read it before.
I’m rereading Outlander for book club and I’m working on Mindstorms and Collapse in a few pages at a time. That means if I finish Mindstorms and Collapse I only need to read three more books in the next three weeks. Oy. Maybe I will read the childrens books my in-laws sent for Christmas. I need to screen them anyway and they will be shorter. (Like YA childrens… not picture books.)
I need to catch up on March.
I read. I swear.
Book #5: Over Sea, Under Stone
Book #6: Giving the Love That Heals
Technically #5 is one that Noah read to me. But it’s new to me. 🙂 I’m glad that #6 is over. Woof. It’s a good book–I highly recommend it if you have kids. I promise you that you are doing shit instinctively you shouldn’t be doing and they are constructive about how to handle those situations.
Still readin Mindstorms, Collapse, and I have The Myth of Ability out from the library. That will satisfy February I think.
I am seriously thinking of no longer participating on MDC. I’m tired of getting spanked by moderators because I am jolting. Yeah. I talk about rape. I guess I should learn how to be quieter and more euphemistic so you never have to feel jolted. Or I could just stop posting there and go back to my sandbox and say fuck the fascists. That will feel more satisfying.
January reading officially done.
Only four weeks in the month. Woo.
Book #4 for the year: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling.
That’s technically a reread. So it’s not a “new” book. But I read it in 2003 (I think) so it is practically new to me. It’s for the book club next weekend.
I’m also half-way through Mindstorms in addition to still plugging away at Giving the Love that Heals. I expect to finish both this week. I will probably finish one tomorrow with the way the weekend is going.
I’m in a terrible mood. I am sick and skipping pot because my lungs are pissy. And I’m feeling massively resentful about all kinds of rational and irrational things.
I should probably try to go to sleep.
I’m trying to read more.
This month I have read all three of Stieg Larson’s books in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.
I’m most of the way through Giving the Love that Heals.
I occasionally read a few more pages in Mark Twain’s autobiography.
I want to finish at least one more book this month. I’m trying to do one book a week this year. We’ll see.
Reading.
I haven’t read much in a few years. I would say that I haven’t read a book a month in years. I think I should do a book a week. Rereads are fine. Kids books are ok as long as they are long chapter books. I’m going to count graphic novels just because it makes Noah happy for me to read them. Before I was willing to post about this I tried it for a month very quietly. It worked! Here’s what I read in January:
Girl Genius by Kaja and Phil Foglio volumes 1-9 in paper.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess also by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
I read like my friends start knitting projects. These are the ones I am in progress on:
Hideous kinky by Esther Freud
Autobiography of Mark Twain by… Mark Twain. This one is going to be a slog. Holy moly. I’ve been working on it for weeks.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Neverwhere by Neil Gaimon
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaimon (this is the one Noah is reading me)
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice (I don’t want to talk about it.)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle or something like that. The Kingsolver one.
I need to change the stories in my head. Time for distraction. It’s making it hella hard to edit my book. It’s too sad.