Solution! Yay!

I think I figured out a solution to my problem I mentioned in my last post.

Ebooks! :D

I'm on one of my computer binges, when if I'm not at the computer constantly checking my email or downloading books I'm fidgeting on the couch trying to read something that can't keep my attention because I'm thinking about a website. But with an ebook I can click back and forth between the book and a browser and not pause in my reading.

Worked out pretty well, actually-- just finished Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow.

I'm sure in a few days I'll be back on a treeware binge, but for now this'll work.

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Current Happenings

I hadn't realized it had been so long since I finished a book. For some reason I'm having trouble getting into a one. I may need to go to the library and see if I can find one there.

But! Even though I haven't FINISHED a book, I have been reading a few. I'm currently about 60 pages into The Tightwad gazette (averaging about 4 pages a day @_@), and 47 in Sophie's World. I've also been peeking into Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead, The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring, and Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage.

Gone Tomorrow is pretty boring, actually, but I'm hoping it'll pick up soon. I'm only on page 15, after all.

Speaking of boring books, right after I finished The Freeway I started reading Walkabout. I hate almost everything about it-- the bland, too-perfect characters, the plot, the writing style. Hopefully I can foist it off on someone else. (I was thinking about keeping it around in case I became especially bored, but remembering why I stopped reading it in the first place makes me want to get rid of it ASAP.)

If anyone's reading this and has suggestions, go ahead and give 'em to me. I had a list of around 70 books I want to read, but I lost it somewhere in my room. So I'm up for recs. I'd especially love any good travel narratives.

50 Books Read in One Year

Current progress:

♥ = recommended

01. The Girl with the Silver Eyes - Willo Davis Roberts (1 Jan.) [198 pages]
02. Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade - Barthe DeClements (1 Jan.) [137 pages]
03. Tangerine - Edward Bloor (6 Jan.) [294 pages] ♥
04. The A.I. Gang: Operation SHERLOCK - Bruce Coville (7 Jan.) [211 pages]
05. Chasing Vermeer - Blue Balliett (17 Jan.) [254 pages] ♥
06. The Case of the Haunted Health Club - Carol Farley (20 Jan.) [101 pages]
07. Spying on Miss Muller - Eve Bunting (20 Jan.) [152 pages]
08. The Codebreaker Kids - Gearge Edward Stanley (21 Jan.) [104 pages]
09. The Woman in the Wall - Patrice Kindl (28 Mar.) [185 pages]
10. The Princess Bride - William Goldman (6 May) [332 pages] ♥
11. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (7 May) [434 pages] ♥
12. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (8 May) [330 pages] ♥
13. A Pound of Paper - John Baxter (14 June) [417 pages]
14. Bloomability - Sharon Creech (16 June) [273 pages]
15. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster (16 June) [256 pages] {I STARTED reading this sometime in January and only finished it in June. Heh.}
16. The Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte (18 June) [362 pages] ♥
17. Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn (18 June) [208 pages]
18. Sam and the Moon Queen - Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mail (18 June) [168 pages]
19. I Am Dracula - C. Dean Anderson (19 June) [350 pages]
20. Capture the Prince, Vol. 1 - Fuji Mitori (20 June) [199 pages] {Scanlated by Hochuuami}
21. Asayake no Diamond Life, Vol. 1 - Nishimura Shuuko (20 June) [186 pages] {Scanlated by Hochuuami}
22. Apron de Choushoku wo, Vol. 01 - Hiiro Reiichi (20 June) [173 pages] {Scanlated by Hochuuami}
23. The Secret Life of Dilly McBean - Dorothy Haas (20 June) [202 pages]
24. Fujimi Orchestra - Akitsuki Koo and Gotoh Sei (20 June) [196 pages] {Scanlated by Hochuuami and mochi*mochi}
25. Last Target - Mamahara Ellie (21 June) [179 pages] {Scanlated by Hochuuami}
26. The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks (21 June) [181 pages] ♥
27. The Return of the Indian - Lynne Reid Banks (21 June) [189 pages]
28. The Secret of the Indian - Lynne Reid Banks (21 June) [147 pages]
29. The Mystery of the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks (22 June) [246 pages] ♥
30. Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman & Various (22 June) [240 pages]
31. Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman & Various (23 June) [256 pages]
32. The Freeway - Dori DeCamillis (3 July) [369 pages] ♥

Start: 1 January 2006
Total Books: 32/50
Total Pages: 7,534

I've decided to try writing more reviews. Hopefully they won't totally bomb. :D