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Turn the Page

Apparently, Dez wants to read 25 books this year or did last year or whatever. I am such a horrible friend. I don’t pay enough attention. Anyway, when I saw this announcement I thought “That doesn’t seem like a lot of books” even though it’s slightly more than two per month and almost double what I read last year. I can count all the books I read, more or less, off the top of my head.

I’ve technically read 1.5 books this year so I’m on a roll. I’m finishing one that I started last month and I’ve got two more on my plate so I’m doing pretty well. Inevitably, I’ll slow down at some point as my life is taken over by MMOs or blogging but I hope to be slightly more consistent this year than last.

Pee Ess

I finally finished the book I have been reading for something like 7/8 months! God! I’ll probably finished the second edition of Ultimate Sandman and start Neverwhere and/or the next novel in the Death Gate Series.

On the mention of books, I entered to win a signed copy of Neil Gaiman’s the Graveyard Book – but you shouldn’t (so I can win, duh! ;)) Giveaways are also the subject of one of my recent posts on Reviews by Cole.

Hello Hello

hearing: Lennon(music) and the wind
feeling: dirty

Just a little update. I know it’s been a while. I started reading Eragon as an illegal e-book a while ago. I figured it looked interesting and the movie looks decent, too, so it was a place to start.

While browsing through gobs and gobs of illegal e-books I took the time to download quite a few more, including much of the Narnia series. I remember reading The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in elementary school but I’m not entirely sure we finished it. As it is a classic, I figure it doesn’t hurt to read.

We went to look for furry rodent type things at the petshop at the mall off base but they didn’t have anything so I might just find an old warehouse and steal a rat. Kidding, about that but I was a little disappointed.

We did, however, get this cute Nightmare Before Christmas clock. It’s an analog clock with Jack and Sally figures “behind” it and there legs move like a pendulum, or they would if I knew how to make them work. -l- I think I’ll make Rian take a picture so that I can show the world.

We’re slowly adding domestic type things to the place. I think that after I start working, I’ll start adding “womanly” decorative touches as the place is pretty bare as it is. That’s okay for now but, in the long run, I’ll want to spruce it up.

The weather has been rather crappy lately. It’s either drizzling rain or blowing insanely and while I don’t much mind the rain, when I hear the wind outside it makes it feel like the world is extremely desolate and lonely and makes my mood a little more blah than it otherwise might be.

I’ve been posting at forums more as of late so why don’t you waste some time with me, too? At all of these I go as anaesthetic.

Lavish JRI Tape Reservation Road

A Bit About Books

I just recently stumbled across this book in the Milwaukee County Library Catalog system and decided to give it a whirl. Although it wasn’t what I expected, it was an interesting read but certainly not a work of any literary genius. The chapters of the book float through author Robin Shamburg’s experience of being a dominatrix to subsidize her her life as a write and cover her theories on the life and the clients, her advice on being a dominatrix and her experiences in the profession which does not involved sex or prostitution and is completely legal. It’s an interesting read if you’re interested in becoming a professional dominatrix, alternative lifestyles, or just have an open mind.

The second book I finished recently I picked up upon the day of its release as I had been anxiously awaiting it: Phantom by Terry Goodkind. I had been reading the series since graduation and had finally caught up to Terry’s writing speed so I’d filled the offtime with several other books of considerably less pages. (The books in the Sword of Truth Series often are between 600 and 900 pages.)

Anyway, I picked up this book, the second in the ending trilogy of the series and went through it anxiously as the war loomed impossibly over Richard Rahl’s head and there seemed nothing which could be done to win it. Simultaneously those closest to Richard, while they may or may not believe in Kahlan’s existance, beg him to stop chasing phantoms which gives Riachrd an idea which may be the key to turning the tides of the war.

At the end of the book Kahlan is still missing and Richard is kidnapped by a witch woman no one knew existed, and although the war is turning slightly in their direction the conflicts are ongoing and won’t be resolved until the very end, the end of the series that is. I heard the enxt book won’t be out until 2008. -pouts-

Anyway, this is a good book which will really keep you on the edge of your seat and Terry has made it very easy to understand Richard’s conflicting emotions about the war and Kahlan. While any of these books really stand on their own, if you’re interested I suggest you start form the beginning of an awesome series.

Your Favourite magazine?

what’s your favorite magazine?
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