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slyprenticeThis morning I woke with the realization that sometime during the night, the entire city and beyond was a land of fog and wetness. You, literally, couldn't see someone standing two feet in front of you if you tried. Which, let me tell you, made for some interesting driving.
It's rather like starring in your own horror movie (very much like, "The Others" with Nicole Kidman_) but with thicker fog. I wish I could take a picture to properly showcase just how foggy it is (*cue horror music in the background*) but every time I've tried, the picture was just a white-ish mass and didn't look that impressive.
Even when I was in San Francisco, which is laid with fog routinely, it wasn't quite as thick as this and dissipated by mid-morning. It's going half two and the fog is, if possible, getting a little thicker. It rather fits my mood, though, so I'm not complaining.
In fact, it's kind of fun. Idiots on the road aside. Maybe I'll take a picture later, if it dissipates some, so all can see. It's rather beautiful and murky, in it's own way.
Anyway. Enough of that.
I've decided that, much like previous years, I'm going to participate in one of those read x-amount of books in a year. This year - the Year of the Ox (my year, mind you) - I'm going to be ambitious and read 135 books, if possible.
It seems likea lot of books but I read quite often and faster than most. Any spare moment I have - in the car, during lunch breaks, etc. - is usually accompanied with reading a few pages of a book.
The past few years my goal - which I don't think I've ever really posted on here to any extent - was only to read 50 books, which isn't a great sum and I've always accomplished.
The large increase this year is only due to, truthfully, the fact that my lovely sister bought me a Sony Reader and therefore makes reading all the more easy and convenient.
I admit to starting of the year with two re-read - which I won't be count - by Naomi Novik, to refresh my memory on the goings on in the book so my first official read was...
Black Powder Wars by Naomi Novik
Which I happened to love despite the fact that a good portion of it was grim for the war and Laurence and Teremaire. I'm putting of reading the next one, Empire of Ivory, until I'm able to get my hands on Victory of Eagles so I don't have to wait impatiently.
My current read I'll be done with by tonight, no doubt, and is absolutely heavenly:
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
I had no idea that the movie - which is likewise heavenly and one of my favorite movies of all time - was book but in hindsight it makes perfect sense. I'm reading through the pages like they're going to disappear and smiling all the way.
The book itself is much funnier than thebook movie (sorry guys, I'm taking cough medicine and obviously it's not so good for my writing skills) and just as cute so I'm thoroughly satisfied with it. I'm going to have to find the movie and buy it. I've tried in the past but could only find the black and white version. I want to color one as well, darn it!
I highly recommend both the movie and the book for those of you who want to read a romantic-esque comedy. They both make me wish that movies like The Major and the Minor (1942) and The Enchanted Cottage (1945) were both books.
Anyway, down to the nitty gritty...
Books of 2009:
1. Black Powder Wars by Naomi Novik
2. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
It's rather like starring in your own horror movie (very much like, "The Others" with Nicole Kidman_) but with thicker fog. I wish I could take a picture to properly showcase just how foggy it is (*cue horror music in the background*) but every time I've tried, the picture was just a white-ish mass and didn't look that impressive.
Even when I was in San Francisco, which is laid with fog routinely, it wasn't quite as thick as this and dissipated by mid-morning. It's going half two and the fog is, if possible, getting a little thicker. It rather fits my mood, though, so I'm not complaining.
In fact, it's kind of fun. Idiots on the road aside. Maybe I'll take a picture later, if it dissipates some, so all can see. It's rather beautiful and murky, in it's own way.
Anyway. Enough of that.
I've decided that, much like previous years, I'm going to participate in one of those read x-amount of books in a year. This year - the Year of the Ox (my year, mind you) - I'm going to be ambitious and read 135 books, if possible.
It seems likea lot of books but I read quite often and faster than most. Any spare moment I have - in the car, during lunch breaks, etc. - is usually accompanied with reading a few pages of a book.
The past few years my goal - which I don't think I've ever really posted on here to any extent - was only to read 50 books, which isn't a great sum and I've always accomplished.
The large increase this year is only due to, truthfully, the fact that my lovely sister bought me a Sony Reader and therefore makes reading all the more easy and convenient.
I admit to starting of the year with two re-read - which I won't be count - by Naomi Novik, to refresh my memory on the goings on in the book so my first official read was...
Black Powder Wars by Naomi Novik
Which I happened to love despite the fact that a good portion of it was grim for the war and Laurence and Teremaire. I'm putting of reading the next one, Empire of Ivory, until I'm able to get my hands on Victory of Eagles so I don't have to wait impatiently.
My current read I'll be done with by tonight, no doubt, and is absolutely heavenly:
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
I had no idea that the movie - which is likewise heavenly and one of my favorite movies of all time - was book but in hindsight it makes perfect sense. I'm reading through the pages like they're going to disappear and smiling all the way.
The book itself is much funnier than the
I highly recommend both the movie and the book for those of you who want to read a romantic-esque comedy. They both make me wish that movies like The Major and the Minor (1942) and The Enchanted Cottage (1945) were both books.
Anyway, down to the nitty gritty...
Books of 2009:
1. Black Powder Wars by Naomi Novik
2. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
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