A friend of mine from school has entered a radio station contest to try to get some dental work paid for. He was in a car accident awhile back that messed up his teeth, but his wife has MS and they have a young child, so his health has always come last ( Read more... )

( As usual, long poll within. )

Responses to the poll: 35
5 have read none of those books.

Top responders:
*cgbookcat1 79
*vierran45 53
*blue_ant 53
cissa 48
usa_p 34
agentclaudia 31
sassy 30
jorghes 30
*attolia 29
*tortoise 28

*Top responders in a previous year as well.

cgbookcat1 again gets the (non-existent) prize for having read an amazing number of the books I read - well over half ( Read more... )

( Long poll within )

The list is in the order I read them (with the duplicates removed), so there are lots of series that are not together and so on. There are ( Read more... )

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Responses to the poll: 33

Top responders:
*cgbookcat1 67
alasen 54
*vierran45 41
*blue-ant 40
stfg 36
*otterevil 36
*nessreader 30
*lisa-bee 29
*tortoise 26
*nwhyte 22

*Top responder in a previous year, too. cgbookcat1 wins something for having read half of the books I read this year. Wow!

Most read books:12 ( Read more... )

Stuff that is probably not interesting to anyone but me :)

Total books: 135 (last year: 144)
Total new books: 68 (last year: 62)
Total pages: 29599 (last year: 39517)
Total audio book time: 2d21h50m (last year: 65h20m)

F/SF rereads: 56 (last year: 79)
F/SF new reads: 59 (last year: 56)
Fiction rereads: 11 (last year: 11)
Fiction new reads: 6 ( ( Read more... )

The list is in the order I read them (with the duplicates I found removed), so there are lots of series that are not together and so on. There are:

*New reads (anything without an asterisk is a reread)
^Non-fiction (I don't read much non-fiction)
&Books I read twice this year (only a couple this year)

( Very long poll within )

Are old jewelry/beading magazines worth anything? I don't mean can I sell them at a profit and become rich, I mean would anyone ever be interested in anything like that? I just found a stack of magazines, the one date I noticed was in 2003. Of course any pricing info and so on is way out of date, but patterns and suchlike could still be useful ( Read more... )