Outread Aubrey! Challenge discussion

Never read the whole book of "Princess Bride"...we just got in a hardcover copy of it at work, so I am able to check it out now to read...(we can take home hardcover books for two weeks for free at work)... I look forward to finishing it!

Where do you work, Hannah? O.O

Barnes and Noble. :)

I want to work at Barnes and Noble now. o.o

Hannah wrote: "Barnes and Noble. :)"

Words cannot express my jealousy. ;) You can take them home for two weeks? For FREE? o.o

Apply for jobs at BN.com! Even cafe people get to borrow books! :)

I really thought that working with books would make me read less. Instead I read more!!! It helps for making recommendations to customers.

I do use Goodreads a lot on the job when we have the people that come in looking for "that book you featured that had a train and a blue cover" or "the one where the girl wakes up married in Mexico"...or when they pick up a book and randomly ask what it's about and if it's worth reading!

The nearest B&N is an hour away. D: But that's pretty cool. ^_^ You've got a whole bookstore to borrow!

I tried applying to B&N awhile ago, but I had no job record at that point. I should try again. I've got food experience so I bet I could get in on the cafe. That would be awesome. :3

Guess whaaaat! I got to read Grace Pennington's newest book last week and Y'ALL DIDN'T! *cackle*

My nearest B&N is an hour away too... * wistful sigh *

I read the most amazing writing craft book ever: "Write Your Novel from the Middle." Everyone should read it; seriously. I can loan it to people, if you like.

And then I read the second Harry Potter book which was almost, but not entirely, exactly like the first one.

So now I'm reading Ellery Queen. Good 'ole Ellery.

Maybe I should shoot for a B&N job after I move out west... hehehe.

Aubrey wrote: "Guess whaaaat! I got to read Grace Pennington's newest book last week and Y'ALL DIDN'T! *cackle* "

Firmament? o.o Givit! Gimme! I need my Crash! *Whirls on Katie* Gimme Floyd! Gimme the Crash and the Floyd and nobody gets hurt!

But if not...

I has Percy Jackson. I finished book 2 today. I love Percy's funny narrating. Although the kid's gonna have rough teen years by the looks of it.

* backs off, hands in the air *
Hey, hey, hey! Let's not get excited here! There will be enough Floyd and Crash for everyone in a few months. O.O

Aubrey wrote: "Guess whaaaat! I got to read Grace Pennington's newest book last week and Y'ALL DIDN'T! *cackle*"

I want to read it! But I got to read another author friend's unfinished work, so I guess I can't complain too much.

I am currently reading "Kenobi: Star Wars" by John Jackson Miller and I am listening to "Death Comes to Pemberly" by P.D. James. Both are very different, that's for sure.

Katie wrote: "* backs off, hands in the air *
Hey, hey, hey! Let's not get excited here! There will be enough Floyd and Crash for everyone in a few months. O.O"

A few months? I cannae wait that long! D: I've done my waiting! 2 months and 2 weeks of it! In my house!

...Has it really only been that long? o.O Okay, fine.... I will wait. ;) I'll stop being overly dramatic.

I FINALLY finished Bede's Ecclesiastical History! Well, that took a while... hehe.

I want to reread the Artemis Fowl books so I've decided for every 'new' book I read, I can reread one. Therefore I've finished Bede so I can reread the first one. And one of my library books has finally arrived -- once I've collected that I'm sure I'll get through it quickly.

I will get back to Kenobi one of these days...

Reread the first AF book. 'Ash' by Malinda Lo has finally come into the library, so I'm going to go and collect that in an hour or so. The one advantage of being ill on World Book Day is that I can get to the library before it closes... shame I didn't get a chance to dress up though.

Finished Ash. Not entirely what I expected, but I did enjoy it. Now I'm probably going to reread the second Artemis Fowl book and then start on the two books by Ben Aaronovitch that I picked up at the library, part of a series I've read some of.

(I'm not very well and don't have the energy to do anything useful so I'm just sitting on the sofa reading and have been most of the day.)

I just finished "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" by Joshua Harris. It was just as good as the sequel, "Boy Meets Girl"; I very much enjoyed it.

Read a book I got on Christmas clearance for $2, "Comfort and Joy" by Kristen Hannah. She's a really good writer. The nearest thing I can compare the story line to is the Sandra Bullock movie "The Lake House". Very unusual story!

I finished book 3 of the Percy Jackson series. :D Just two more to go, then I have another six of Riordan before I attack the library for the last two Divergent books.

Hey...random question. Would anyone here be interested in being a beta reader and giving their honest opinion on a few short stories I'm thinking about publishing? (Historical fiction)

I'm reading "House of Iron Men" by Jack Steele this week...the same fellow that wrote the "A Husband By Proxy" that I enjoyed so much last year. It's a good mystery with some romance thrown in for good measure. Delightfully clean story; the murder mystery is side stage, so you can guess at the clues without reading anything yucky. And the hero gets a nice taste of danger, to keep things exciting...beginning to guess at the instigator(s) of the crime now.

*edit: Feel free to message me here on Goodreads if you're interested in being a reader...thanks!

Read Quicksilver by RJ Anderson last night. Didn't realise it was book two / a sequel, which marred it slightly, but it surpassed all my expectations. A really diverse cast of characters and also the first asexual protagonist I've come across in my entire life, which was so nice.

I finally finished Regency Buck last week—owing to a crazy schedule it took me forever to finish, but I still liked it. I haven't been doing much reading at all, since I'm deep in preparing for a book release of my own, but I've been browsing a bit in Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads when I get a few free minutes. I really liked "The Nightingale."

WHAT I totally need to read Quicksilver now...

I've been reading manga. also got a Flavia de Luce book that I'd like to read this weekend.

(The manga titles are Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, Ouran High School Host Club, and Kamisama Kiss)

Jenni - the first book is called Ultraviolet and I'm reading it now. It's narrated by a different character, but it's still good. Primarily set in a psych ward, which makes for unusual reading. :)

I have read lots of books this week. I think I'm in denial that school is a thing.

My kindle isn't charging. I'm in book withdrawal!

I finished two books today (one normal sized, one short one...I was behind in my challenge goal), both of them were good in totally different ways.

Corporate Kid was good because it was a good story and a general market book with awesome morals.

Throwing Stones was good because I've been thinking a lot about birth moms/teen moms/crisis pregnancy situations a lot and this story fit in perfectly.

I reviewed both of them if you happen to want more details. ;)

Next week i'm going on a movie fast so hopefully i will get lots of book reading in.
(Though i've got a lot of sports and tabletop RPG's planned.)

10 of the last 12 books I read were new rather than rereads. Success! :)

I plan to actually make progress with Roman Britain: A New History this weekend, as well as read Anansi Boys which finally arrived from the library. And I just picked up A Face Like Glass when I was in the library this morning -- I've read two other books by the author, and even though they're really aimed at people younger than me, they're so good that I thought I'd give this one a go.

On the other hand, I really ought to be doing some work...

I've read an average of a book a day for the last 10 days, so you can tell I was supposed to be working, can't you?

You are amusingly amazing, Miriam.

I randomly stopped at the library today as well. However, I mostly got books I didn't finish reading the first time I checked them out...

Aubrey wrote: "You are amusingly amazing, Miriam."

I can live with that as a testimonial.

I finished book 4 of Percy Jackson. I love all of these characters, and don't want to say bye yet! D: I suppose there's still one more book, but still!

I finished "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" It was the weirdest book I've read since Farenheit 451. Now I'm working on Slaughterhouse Five which is nothing like what I was expecting. Don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this!

I finished my Flavia de Luce book. I think I'm in love.

Finally finished the Clockwork Angel audiobook. Now I await the Fault in Our Stars audiobook from the library. I had hoped it'd be just the books that would have long wait lists, but audiobooks are too. :P

I've begun the last Percy Jackson book. It has been a crazy middle-grade adventure. ^_^

Just finished Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage. Gah! One of those books that's sad, but in a way that makes you too mad to cry. Read it!

I enjoyed the Percy Jackson series -- Percy's 1st person POV is hilarious.

I just finished "Revisoning Little Red Riding Hood Around the World" for my Eng. lit class on fairy tales. Hoping to read more fiction books during spring break, but I have a stack of reader judge books to get through. :O

I just read a Mrs. Southworth book...I got it in the mail last evening and read almost all of it at once! It was a true page-turner! Reminds me exactly why she's one of my favorite authors...

I read Anansi Boys. I have no idea what I'm going to read next...

I've finished Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The last book is probably my favorite. I've now begun The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan, which book two in the Heroes of Olympus series. I read book one of this series before I had read any other Riordan book. It's kind of weird to finish the first series and jump right into the second one and see Percy again, but this time in third-person.

A certain someone inadvertently got me out of bed on my day off, so I decided to read a bit before getting up.

Novel idea, right?!

I do have to format (as usual!) today, but I'm kinda hoping there will be time to squeeze Katie's new book in (which I recently formatted) or maybe FINALLY clear out my unread comic stack (which is granted fairly small, but I said no new issues until all my current ones were read).

I'm innoceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent.

Also my dearest Leah is going to catch up on the lovely Pandora Hearts and ALL ITS FEELS ARGH.

I'm almost done with "Seeing Red" by Halton Arp! I've been working on this book since OCTOBER! Unfortuanately "Quasers, Redshifts, and Controversies" is out of print and unaffordable, so I'll have to move right along to "The Big Bang Never Happened."

I'm dreading the day one of my co-workers asks me what I'm reading. "Are you into astronomy?"
"That's, um..."
"Study of the heavens."
"Not really."
"Then there's really no point trying to explain."

Ha, Katie...I run across the funniest things. Booksellers that can't pronounce rhetoric, managers that ask me to define "ruddy"...but lots of people know about astrology. Apparently study of the "magic arts" is huge right now. And people do get confused between that and astronomy.

I also am a big astronomy lover. One of the highlights of my summer was going stargazing with a bunch of my friends, laying out on blankets in a field with a gorgeous spangle of stars all the way across the sky. I only know a handful of constellations, but I saw four "falling stars" that evening and had a great time.

Yeah...I guess I haven't run into that much. But people are always asking me what I'm reading at work. Trying to explain "City of Dreams" was a tough one.

Alternate conversation:
"Are you into astronomy?"
"Well I like stars."
"Do you know how the universe started?"
"Evolution?"
"Wrong. And I'm not saying that because I'm religious. Oh look, a customer!"

Stargazing is fun! I keep getting glimpses of the stars and hurrying past them because it's freezing cold out. My big thing is actually cosmology but no one knows what that is, and then they think it's cosmetology. * headdesk *

Katie, did you ever hear of God's Voice In The Stars: Zodiac Signs And Bible Truth? I haven't actually read it, but my Dad did a few years back and he told me a lot about it. We spent quite a few nights stargazing in our yard.

I haven't really read anything recently, but I got a good way through rereading "I Am The Messenger" today, which I read a few years ago and really enjoyed, so that might help break my streak of not reading.

Read The Burning Hills by Louis L'Amour earlier this week, which was pretty good, and also finished up Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald yesterday—thoughts here.