7 - 12 all Dean Koontz
7. The Darkest Evening of the Year
8. By the Light of the Moon
9. Lightning
10. Darkfall
11. Ice Bound
12. Your Heart Belongs to Me
13. The Bucolic Plague
14. I Am Not Myself These Days, Both my my secret gay boyfriend Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
5 & 6 of 52
In other words, I'm slacking!
# 5: Committed: A skeptic makes peace with marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert
#6: Forever Odd book 2 of the Odd Thomas Series.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
4 of 52
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. This is the first Koontz book that I've read & I can not wait to get through the others in the series. I'm loving the characters so far, and can't wait to see where the stories lead them.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Books 2 & 3 Down, 49 To Go
Helllloooooo! I've been involved as of late with a bunch of books, but the 2 that I just finished last night were.
Please note that in this 52 in 52 project, I am not planning on reviewing books or give away any real details, just notes on how I felt about them.
2 of 52: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. A lovely book that took (IMHO) a little while to ramp up into something to really keep my interest, but in the end I liked it very much. My only wish is that we could have explored a little more of the story leading up to the present day experience.
3 of 52: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. My first time reading this book was many years ago, way back in the 5th grade. Though I had always up until that point been a reader, this is THE book that made me truly fall in love with the written word and where it could take you. It was interesting to revisit this work again after so many years. I will probably go back to the Island of the Blue Dolphins a lot more in the future!
Please note that in this 52 in 52 project, I am not planning on reviewing books or give away any real details, just notes on how I felt about them.
2 of 52: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. A lovely book that took (IMHO) a little while to ramp up into something to really keep my interest, but in the end I liked it very much. My only wish is that we could have explored a little more of the story leading up to the present day experience.
3 of 52: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. My first time reading this book was many years ago, way back in the 5th grade. Though I had always up until that point been a reader, this is THE book that made me truly fall in love with the written word and where it could take you. It was interesting to revisit this work again after so many years. I will probably go back to the Island of the Blue Dolphins a lot more in the future!
Friday, January 7, 2011
52 in 52 the 2011 Version
I have a metric ton of other things to blog about, and will.. all in due time my precious! However for the moment I'll talk about my plan for 52 in 52 for 2011. In the last year I've lost a lot of my reading time to either knitting, watching TEE VEE, playing on teh intertubez or just plain being a lazy ass. So this year I've decided that I'll tackle 52 books in as many weeks. Now in the interest of full disclosure, all of these books may not actually be read, but listened to, as I can listen to books while knitting. And I'm planning on doing a lot more knitting this year as well. Soooooo...
Book 1: Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
I have been a rabid Cornwell fan in the past, however, the last several books in the Scarpetta series have been a huge disappointment. At least this is one that I listened to, for free no less from my library and didn't have to spend my hard earned money on it. Dear Ms. Cornwell, whilst I have the utmost respect for you and your accomplishments, I have to say, I think that this horse is dead, please stop beating it.
Book 1: Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
I have been a rabid Cornwell fan in the past, however, the last several books in the Scarpetta series have been a huge disappointment. At least this is one that I listened to, for free no less from my library and didn't have to spend my hard earned money on it. Dear Ms. Cornwell, whilst I have the utmost respect for you and your accomplishments, I have to say, I think that this horse is dead, please stop beating it.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Just Like The Jeffersons
We're movin' on up! Maybe not to a deeeelux apartment in the sky, but to a deeelux 2 bedroom town house right down the street from work! I've spent the last 11 years schlepping aprox. 15 miles to work, this in NJ is major pain in the ass. There are perfect days, where it takes me just 25 or so minutes to complete this task. Then, there are days where, well, not so much. Should anything even drizzle fall from the sky, my commute is now up to at least 50 minutes, sometimes well over an hour. I'm looking forward to switching that up to a 1.4 mile one way commute! Rich will make out even better in this deal, as he currently has a 50 mile one way commute. Oh and YES we are going to be moving in together... this for me is HUGE people, HUGE! After the former jerk face boyfriend, I vowed that unless I could see myself with a person forever, I would be perfectly content to live by myself. We spent this past weekend shopping for new furnishings for our future abode, and after a long trip to Ikea, we found some things that Rich liked enough to want to call his own :) So the count down has begun, this is the very last week ever that I'll be making the commute from this place to work, and I can NOT wait!
Monday, August 30, 2010
Holy Guacamole!
The days are slipping by so quickly this summer, I have no idea where the last few months have even gone! Mind you it's been so miserably hot and humid this summer, I won't at all mind the cool, crisp fall weather once it finally arrives, but wow, times does indeed fly. So much has been happening, work (as usual, a 4 letter word), working on my business, spending time with Rich, and family and friends, planning our vacation (my first in 9 years), planning our move, whew! I feel like I haven't had any time to just sit and be.
With all the said, this past weekend was wonderful. Rich's 40th Birthday was on Thursday 8/26. We had a lovely dinner out and just enjoyed spending time together. I made him a Fornicating Deer hat (that I have to re-work because the stranded knitting is a bit snug) and he was happy as a clam! Over the weekend, we celebrated with his family, spend the whole day together, playing with the kids, eating homemade baked ziti and sampling delicious cakes for dessert. One of these was a white cake with lemon mousse, then there was another that was red velvet cake and both a caramel and black sesame mousse. We took the younger boys fishing at a small pond near Rich's house. They did a great job and were so proud of all of the sun fish that they each caught. Rich is so wonderful with these kids, you can clearly see how much they both adore him as well, it's all terribly sweet to witness.
The next few weeks are going to be equally as hectic, if not more. The count down to vacation has begun. Four more days of work for me after today then I'm off from work for 9 glorious days! This will be a busy week however, as I have dyeing and tagging of yarn and fiber to get done to bring up to Jesh for NJS&W she's been kind enough to offer to be the pimp for Plays Well With Colors that weekend. We have a Labor Day weekend BBQ planned with Rich's family, then I'll be packing for our trip to Portland, OR (YAY!!!!!) Once we're back from Portland, the following weekend, we've got to find an apartment, and from there on out I'll be packing and planning and repainting my apartment. The good news is that Rich has decided that he's okay with living very close to work, so our commute times will be next to nothing, that will save us both a fair amount of money in gas each month. I have a few places close by in mind to check out. I'm SOOOO excited to get this move over with, and start the next chapter of our life together.
With all the said, this past weekend was wonderful. Rich's 40th Birthday was on Thursday 8/26. We had a lovely dinner out and just enjoyed spending time together. I made him a Fornicating Deer hat (that I have to re-work because the stranded knitting is a bit snug) and he was happy as a clam! Over the weekend, we celebrated with his family, spend the whole day together, playing with the kids, eating homemade baked ziti and sampling delicious cakes for dessert. One of these was a white cake with lemon mousse, then there was another that was red velvet cake and both a caramel and black sesame mousse. We took the younger boys fishing at a small pond near Rich's house. They did a great job and were so proud of all of the sun fish that they each caught. Rich is so wonderful with these kids, you can clearly see how much they both adore him as well, it's all terribly sweet to witness.
The next few weeks are going to be equally as hectic, if not more. The count down to vacation has begun. Four more days of work for me after today then I'm off from work for 9 glorious days! This will be a busy week however, as I have dyeing and tagging of yarn and fiber to get done to bring up to Jesh for NJS&W she's been kind enough to offer to be the pimp for Plays Well With Colors that weekend. We have a Labor Day weekend BBQ planned with Rich's family, then I'll be packing for our trip to Portland, OR (YAY!!!!!) Once we're back from Portland, the following weekend, we've got to find an apartment, and from there on out I'll be packing and planning and repainting my apartment. The good news is that Rich has decided that he's okay with living very close to work, so our commute times will be next to nothing, that will save us both a fair amount of money in gas each month. I have a few places close by in mind to check out. I'm SOOOO excited to get this move over with, and start the next chapter of our life together.
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