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[orangerful]

Woo and hoo - I got an A in my Stats class! 90%! PWND! *dances*

That was really the only class I was concerned about. The other two should be okay as long as I didn't totally FUBAR the final papers. Which I don't think I did!!

I was a reading FOOL last night. I finished off The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which was a great read! Reminded me a bit of King Dork in its not pulling any punches and very realistic teenage characters. It just won the National Book Award!

Then I read Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi. I had forgotten I had this book checked out, it was buried under a pile of YA titles! But it was a quick read, being a graphic novel. An odd little story of a man that is so broken hearted that he decides to die and just lies in bed waiting. Not as good as Persepolis or Embroideries but I like her style so I enjoyed it.

I wasn't quite ready to sleep yet, so I pulled out Robot Dreams which I had heard about via westerblog. It has absolutely no "spoken" text. It's all pictures. It's cataloged as children's in our library but it has a story that is...mature in a sense. I mean, a kid could read and enjoy it, but I think they could pick it up again as an adult and enjoy it to! Quite a surprise!

And my copy of No Future For You IV (or BtVS s8 #9) FINALLY arrived yesterday too. Kick-ass ending to the BKV arc. Now I want my Angel #1 to arrive!!!

I'm up to book 3 in the Georgia Nicholson Confessions series. I have to agree with jellibean and heiland_coo, these books are SO FUN! I've been reading them on break while at work and they are just perfect for that!

I still have a bookmark in The Other Boleyn Girl. After spending most of this year reading Young Adult books, I realize that "grown-up" books are very long! haha. So I read the equivalent of a YA book in pages, then got bored and switched to something else. I'll pick it up again soon, though I did put my name on the Book on CD list. Perhaps it would be an easier story to listen to...has anyone else on here read it yet?

Speaking of bookmarks - I also have one in An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England, which started out strong. I just got distracted!

I have so many books checked out right now! And Christmas is soon and I know I have a BUNCH of books on my list, mostly Whedon related, which I will want to read right away! AH!

...and why do I still not have a "reading" or "bookish" icon???!! tsk tsk.

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[lostacanthus.livejournal.com]

OMG I LOVE the Georgia Nicholson books! I think I've only read the first five though. But they're so great!

Speaking of The Other Boleyn Girl (Which I haven't read yet) I bought The Queen's Fool awhile ago and maybe because it's a sequel to the first one (which I didn't know when I bought it) or maybe it's the length but I just can't finish it! :( Maybe if I read the first one? IDK.

Have you read the Gossip Girl books? I was never interested until I unintentionally got SUCKED IN TO THE TV SHOW.

I don't have any bookish icons either :(

[oppppp2000.livejournal.com]

congrats on your "A"!!! Keep up the good work....

[faeriesfolly.livejournal.com]

I read The Other Boleyn Girl....I really liked it, but I like all that historical, might-as-well-be a 6-hour costume drama from the BBC stuff. heh. The movie looks really pretty (even if Scarlett J annoys me to no end for some unknown reason--Keira Knightly does the same thing). I think Natalie is gorgeous though, so we shall SEE. I did like the two of her books that I have read though.

It looked to me like the movie was a bit different as far as the story went, but I can't be sure of that since it has been a few years since I read it.

[faeriesfolly.livejournal.com]

Also....we are putting that A up on the fridge, Miss Sammers. XD RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE!

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

This is the first Phillipa Gregory book I've tried. I was cruising along, but when a book called "the absolutely true diary of a party time indian' shows up on my desk, how can I resist??

We have the 'Gossip Girl' series at the library and it's always in horrible condition! They must be good reads, or perhaps the kids are trying to hide them inside more respectable books so their parents don't yell at them. They are not very big, they look like you could finish them off in a week.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I can only hope next semester goes just as well!

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Well, they will probably have to dumb down the movie a bit to make it a watchable length! I mean, the book is really long! They will probably cut to the chase a bit quicker with whatever Anne is concocting (poor Mary still thinks she has chance at this point, I just got up to the part where they realize the queen as hit menopause...its all so odd).

I like Scarlett more now than when she was younger, and I think I prefer her in period pieces. I liked her in 'Prestige'. Keira Knightly annoys me too but that's just because I haven't seen her in anything where I loved her character. (PotC 3 was SUCH a let down, I can't even bring myself to blog about it!!!)

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!!! I'm hoping this means Santa Yoda will know I've been a good little Jedi that studied hard and deserves Mario Galaxy!

[lostacanthus.livejournal.com]

I just looked up the summaries for Gossip Girl on Wikipedia and the TV show sounds a lot more interesting xD It makes me not want to read the books, because they're so ridiculous sounding! I'll probably check them out anyway lol