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Eventually I’ll post an update. Honest.  These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you own but have not read. Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellAnna KareninaCrime and […] ↓ Read the rest of this ( Read more... )

Eventually I'll post an update. Honest.

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you own but have not read.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
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Is there anything more pathetic than watching for the email that’s not coming? Probably. Originally published at www.liakela.com. You can comment here or there.

Originally published at liakela.com. Please leave any comments there.

So having uploaded and transfered all of my LJ blogs to my actual site (and having done this months and months ago.. ahem) I’m starting to go through them all and categorizing, while also culling from the herd those posts that just don’t cut the mustard. Those tend to be meme posts where the links […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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I was introduced to Kelley Armstrong, if you’ll remember, through my last good read, Dates From Hell.  The protagonist was an interesting woman, and I was more than eager to delve into her ‘Women of the Otherworld’ series. Bitten is the story of Elena Michaels, a woman with the dubious distinction of being the only […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry ( Read more... )

This will likely start out as a padder post, one made in order to test the fact that someone has graciously and most awesomely created a cross-poster from WordPress to Myspace. I’ll admit, I can be pretty lazy, and it sucked hugely to have to copy/paste my blog into the Myspace blog section, format correctly […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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My friend from work, Sky, suggested that I start reading the Kim Harrison books, and because I’d developed a love for all things Charlaine Harris, I agreed.  Kim Harrison has written a series about a witch named Rachel Morgan, and they could not be more engrossing books.  The character development is not obvious or clunky, […] ↓ Read the rest of ( Read more... )

High school was pretty hard for me.  It was better than middle school, though.  I remember thinking what a blessing it would be, going from Metcalf Middle School to North Kingstown HS, because so many people would be there that I wouldn’t have to endure the constant barage of insults, teasing, and outright hatefulness of […] ↓ Read the rest of this ( Read more... )

I remember, back before the kids, A. and I used to go with our friends every weekend, hiking the trails in Pisgah Forest, NC.  Most of us were part of the Forestry training program there, and so had a little leeway where off-campus activities were concerned. And we took advantage of that ‘clout’ as much […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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