Filed under: Awkward Conversations, General, Make Lists of Things, People I Know, Review Things, Things I Do, Things I Read | Tags: Books, reading, recommendations
I love to read.
When I say I love to read, what I really mean is that I love to read. This year has been light on content, but high in quantity. Years past have been the reverse. I don’t discriminate between genres. Very little is too fluffy or too heavy for me to devour. I’ll read just about anything.
This is what makes it particularly hard for me to decide not to finish reading something. (more…)
Filed under: Get All Mushy, Listen to Stuff, Make Lists of Things, My Kids, People I Know, Superheroes, Things I Do, Things I Read, Torchdrool, Unrequited Lust For Jim, Vacation, Watch Stuff, Work at Susie's | Tags: blue rodeo, torchwood, Jim Cuddy - sex god, extraordinary baby shoppe, Bluesfest, Alex Beecroft
I’ve been quiet on the blog front for a bit — busy with vistors, work, and other stuff. Thus, I shall do one of those convenient point-form posts to catch you all up on what’s going down in my life:
Filed under: Activism, Dwell On Things, Things I Do, Things I Read | Tags: amazon rank, #amazonfail, LGBT, erotica
Shamelessly borrowed from those wonderful ladies over at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books:
Amazon rank: (verb) 1. To censor and exclude on the basis of adult content in literature (except for Playboy, Penthouse, dogfighting and graphic novels depicting incest orgies); 2. To make changes based on inconsistent applications of standards, logic and common sense.
Etymology: from 12 April 2009 removal of sales rank figures from books on Amazon.com containing sexual, erotic, romantic, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or queer content, rendering them impossible to find through basic search functions at the top of Amazon.com’s website. Titles stripped of their sales rankings include “Bastard Out of Carolina,” “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” prominent romance novels, GLBTQ fiction novels, YA books, and narratives about gay people.
Example of usage: “I tried to do a report on Lady Chatterley’s Lover for English Lit, but my teacher amazon ranked me and I got an F on grounds that it was obscene.”
Alternate usage: “My girlfriend wanted to preserve her virginity, and I was happy to respect that, then she amazon ranked and decided anal sex was okay.”
Filed under: Awkward Conversations, Listen to Stuff, Make Lists of Things, My Kids, Random Geekery, Things I Eat, Things I Make, Things I Read, Watch Stuff | Tags: 1:12, BBC, Books, coffee, free stuff, Indian food, kids, LibraryThing, miniatures, overheard, Sweeney Todd
A little list of things currently making me smile:
- Free books — I just “won” my first two books through LibraryThing and am eagerly anticipating their arrival. I’m also having a great deal of fun randomly adding to my library from books that I own and books that I’ve read — it’s a pretty scattered combination at this point of library books borrowed and read, and stuff I actually own. When I tire of trolling the groups and people’s libraries, I review a couple of the things I’ve listed in my own. It’s fun and essentially no-pressure. I’m finding myself thinking about the fun I could have with a CueCat.
- Indian food — made two really yummy new-to-me recipes last night and had leftovers for lunch. So. Much. Yum.
- Miniatures — I used to collect them as a child, and made some too. I was poking around Etsy and found some things that lead me on a four hour trip down memory lane, reading some of my miniature design books and (kind of seriously) thinking about constructing a miniature building of some sort. I think I’d have a lot of fun with a miniature cake shop. Or green grocer.
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