GateGypsy

Few things beat walking into work and spotting a stack of books that I didn’t even bring in in the OBCZ in the corner. I love it! YaY for the safe and free sharing of books!

Finishing this goal makes me feel good!

It’s important to keep up a regular pace for reading, even when life gets kindof hectic. I liked being able to sit back and relax with a book and feel justified about it, even when life was whirling around and everything felt out of control.

I would definately recommend this to anyone. I love reading! Keeping such a demand for books up exposed me to more books and different types of books than I’ve seen for quite some time. It was great to expand my horizons!

Between Research Reports and Final Exams, I still managed to read an aweful lot!
I read Marriage: A History, and What is Marriage For? for my English research paper. Both were incredibly educational, but also incredibly depressing.
Besides those, I read a book called May Contain Nuts, about a british uber-mom who suddenly realizes the error of her ways. I can only hope things don’t get that bad before I figure out I’ve gotten off-track.
A wonderful collection of short stories, Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat was also in there, too.
Not to mention Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore (way confusing! Nothing like contemporary Japanese literature to have you chasing the plot out into left field!), Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam (another of the 1001), then the incredibly quick (but still satisfying) Brokeback mountain. After exams I settled into reading my ring books that are so backlogged, and finished Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s co-operative effort Good Omens (and loved it!), Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry (she’s one of my new favourite authors!), and the Weedon bros Diary of a Nobody (also a 1001).

Ergo, here I am on New Year’s Eve to say, Hurrah! Books for each week, read! This is a good pace (though difficult to keep up during school!) and I’ll probably try to keep it up come the new year.

(Sorry for the no-photos. I’ve been having trouble uploading entries with pics, so I just gave up.)