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Anna Begins

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  1. Burial Rites sounds great! Definitely will have that on the soon TBR pile!
  2. Nope, does not sound like TLB Thanks! I am feeling better- finally. Just a bit tired now. That's really too bad, since I planned on taking it with me on vacation.
  3. Thanks! I like your thread That's really cool, because we pay an arm and leg for cable right now, for two households and except for Saturday Night Live (which I usually miss on DVR) I rarely watch anything except news, which now I can watch on the computer So if I did something like the stick, I could watch Netflix or Prime like I do on my computer anyway? Can you get Youtube? Definitely something to think about, as I hate paying so much for TV I don't watch. And they always have them on sale too. I am trying to talk myself out of the 6 inch Fire for travel Pretty hard to do when it comes in Cobalt
  4. Sorry, I am not eves dropping or anything but I saw "Amazon Fire Stick" and wanted to ask what you think of it. Did you try one of those cables that connects your Fire to the TV at all? I didn't even know such a thing existed (the cable, not the stick) Does the stick work like a mini computer?
  5. After a week long illness I am easing back into reading (still with a fuzzy head) with a short story by Stephen King. Written with Stewart O'Nan and called A Face in the Crowd. If my head clears, I will go back to A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick.
  6. I will! I love traveling and Amsterdam is my favorite place I've ever been to.
  7. I'll be meeting up with Athena
  8. After much deliberation and changes and ho hums, I have finalized my list of books I am taking with me to Amsterdam. I figure with a 13 1/2 travel time (plus an hour after security here in San Francisco) I will need at least one book for the flight there and one shorter book for the way home or at least, one that I can start and stop, as by that time, I think I will need some sleeping! I'll have 7 wonderful days + 2 travel days. Here they are: Plane Ride: Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neil along with Lawrence Rees' Hitler's Charisma The Girl on a Train By Paula Hawkins Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945 by Max Hastings. Firefight by Brandon Sanderson will be next and for the return trip.
  9. Thank you! And we have a friend in common that lives quite near
  10. You have such smart grandchildren! What was it- a little extra candy from grandpa?? Oh no- that's to make them sweeter Yes, let's hope it is nothing serious! In a month and 10 days, I will be traveling to Amsterdam for the 5th time!!
  11. Aw! That bites! Here I thought you'd like it so much BY no means am I a convert to this coloring business *crosses arms* ( ) but I did order her postcards to send to a friend. They are so pretty I don't want to color them in (and probably won't!). Ok ok, I also bought a book to color in different decorated cakes, cupcakes and candy I look forward to this, as this is one I hope to read (although definitely not on the plane!).
  12. You finished! I will start A Scanner Darkly over again and get to it today, hopefully. I am only 50 pages in.
  13. Ya I found the story matter and the graphicness of it to be pretty hard to take (me, yet ha ha), plus all the courtroom stuff had me bored but I am glad you liked it, I had been looking forward to it for a long time. Are you going to see the movie? (Kevin Spacey, Matthew McConaughey and Samuel Jackson)?
  14. I was just coming in here to say Poppy Z Brite's Exquisite Corpse. Under the Skin sounds intriguing *downloads sample but approaches timidly* I'm just gratefully we all live in countries where these books are not banned.
  15. I am hoping to pick up the speed soon. I planned on a lot of books this month but now that I'm doing World Without End, It might just be a few... but since I am coming to Amsterdam on my vacation next month ( ) I will have at least some time to read, being a solo trip. I hope you do get to it, I think you'd be greatly affected by the historical point of view. I always wished,as a teenager, that I could have Nelson Mandela as a grandfather Sounds like an interesting read, you must have books going on the side too?
  16. I went in a rented Altima one year and a 77 Pontiac one year (somehow I managed to go to FOUR promos ). I hope prom is great! That sounds much harder than my final coming up Hopefully (we haven't received the assignment yet), it won't be too torturous, but you never know what they will throw out there, it could be an all in class timed research paper. (Let's hoping its not).
  17. This is from the disturbing novels thread, as it was too us and not "communal" Have you tried any of Steinbeck's shorter novels, like The Red Pony, The Pearl or Tortilla Flat? Surely you've read Of Mice and Men? Are we talking about the same Steinbeck? And I think you would LOVE Damned by Palahniuk, (don't read Fight Club or anything extreme), but I think you'd love his protagonist, Madison... just stay away from the sequel, I think he's jumped the shark (shhhh don't tell anyone I said that )
  18. Ya where is he?? I've heard of that hike to get behind the falls, would've loved to have done that but I think it is only a Canadian side thing and I did have a 6 month old strapped to my front lol I am ADDICTED to stories of people that go over those falls... it totally fascinates me. Speaking of going to the edge: did you hear about the guy who recently climbed UP the frozen part
  19. I guess you tend to get a tad wordy when you are paid by the line/ episode You should get your hands on Nolls suggestion ^^ of Yesterday's Gone. Season One is free (it's serialized fiction) on Kindle. There are 6 episodes a season, each about 70- 80 pages.
  20. Do you know if they do the "Mist boat" where you go around the falls and everyone gets soaked? If I thought I could've braved it, I totally would of. The Canadian side seemed so different to us, with all its neon and casino's and such, ours was just like parks and open spaces with manicured grass But oddly enough, we did see people on the rocks to the stream that went right off into the falls One woman bathed her face in the water I figured Muggle would have some cool PHOTO or story about the falls but... I guess not
  21. Ok, I gave up on Naked Lunch and have a long history with that book, in fact, I can turn my head slightly to the left and it is one of maybe 100 books that remain in my house. It belongs with the Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Jack Kerouac section. I love this section dearly and it shaped my early teens (I read a tad early lol), but I just couldn't hack it (and I had read some pretty heavy books on drugs and extreame lifestyles by that time). It's not so much the subject matter (I don't think it is any worse than Trainspotting), but the way it is written is so hard to read. I am determined to give American Psycho another go, especially since I saw the awesome movie (Christian Bale yum). Read Oryx & Crake. It should be on this list. So should the whole damn trilogy. What is the What? is on my TBR from June, she read it last year. I have read 7 of Chuck Palahniuk's books, but never heard of Guts. I'm like Noll, waiting for the posts to roll in with glee Thanks for the thread!
  22. Hopefully mine will just be a research paper (I currently only take an English course). But I know they are out to get me with correctly citing my sources Not only will I have a bad final, but I will also get a bad grade in the corresponding computer lab class that I must take. We try to go off season to avoid lines, it gets too hectic and too hot in So CA in the summer. I guess the humidity can get you in FL but in Los Angeles, it can be 90-100F in the summer. That's just too much for me, to stand in lines that are 2 hours. All those sweaty people- gross But the off season is nice and we do like you, ride our favs, have a meal, walk around, window shop. Then rest in our rooms or in the hot tub. Did you go to prom yet? We were just mall shopping and my daughter (6 years old) had to check out all the dresses. I guess prom is coming up here, but I know all schools are different, I never know til I see the rented Limousines. God, that last sentence made me sound like I'm 80. I promise I am not lol (not like there is anything wrong with that) *get off my lawn*
  23. I hoped so
  24. Ya me too, unfortunately. Well, I still look forward to you getting to the end. I've never watched Once Upon a Time, but I think if I watched more TV, I would like it. I had a 1/2 film, 1/2 reading day yesterday, so I get it I hope you like it. I liked the world Dick created and have A LOT more stuff by him in my Samples. Really interesting plots. After I read the book, I Wiki'd it, just to get the symbolism I had missed... the "story within a story" part of the Wiki entry was really cool. I hope to get to at least one more, if not two or three more of his works this year.
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