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Did I mention recently that I am LAZY?
But starting up oh so many projects. :P
April had 4 goals.
1. Draw two Fanart100s.
I drew... 0.
2. Read five books.
3. Go to a training seminar, April 16.
4. Go to co-worker's birthday party.
FINAL GRADE: B+ (75%).
Woo?
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May I didn't even have goals, other than the implicit ones:
1. Draw three Fanart100s.
I drew... 0.
2. Read 5 books.
I read... 0. Or rather, FINISHED 0. I've been plugging away at The Name of the Wind, but half the time I get home and just want to sleep, not get sucked in to reading two hundred pages. (Because I can't read just a little bit of it, and long book is loooong.)
*sigh*
FINAL GRADE: F- (0%)
Wait, no, I guess that's not true. There were also three other implicit ones:
3. Buy presents and go to the birthday party for my aunt and dad.
4. Buy Mom a Mother's Day present.
5. Write the pilot script for Brad.
So let's call it...
FINAL GRADE: C- (60%)
A lot better, but still not fantastic.
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50 Book Challenge
10. Wicked, Gregory Maguire (1995)
This was... weird. I think it might have made more sense if I had read Wizard of Oz first. I enjoyed it to an extent, but it was... well... weird.
11. Best Bisexual Erotica 2, ed. Carol Queen & Bill Brent (2000)
Enjoyable, though erotica is always a bit hit-and-miss. Some stories were very hot; others were literally laughable.
12. Lucky, Alice Sebold (1999)
Katie G. says she never finished reading it because it was too depressing. (For those not in the know, it's a memoir of Sebold's rape and the aftermath.)
From a reader's perspective, I was kind of torn on it. There were moments of really riveting writing, but also a whole lot of meandering and seemingly meaningless tangents. It felt like it would have been better if she just stuck to the events as they happened, without the side quests into her family history. Part of that may stem from the fact that she wrote her family as just plain unlikeable...
I agree with most of the Amazon.com 3-star reviews, I guess is what I am saying. :P
13. A Fine and Private Place, Peter S. Beagle (1960)
This book was also an odd one. Not at all like The Last Unicorn - which makes sense; the latter was written eight years later and is pretty much a very different subgenre (magical realism vs. high fantasy).
...
ASIDE: in looking up facts for that last sentence, I discovered that someone wrote a MUSICAL for A Fine and Private Place. This kind of wigs me out, but also: I must see it. Also there is apparently a novelette tying together The Last Unicorn and a new novel being written in that universe, slated for next year?
Wikipedia better not be lying to me.
(Well, it isn't about the novelette.)
14. The Best American Erotica 2001, ed. Susie Bright (2001)
See comments to #11. I remember enjoying a bunch of these, but sometimes I just find them laughable. I DO remember that this one was a much quicker read than Best Bisexual Erotica 2, I think because I was more interested in the stories.
But starting up oh so many projects. :P
April had 4 goals.
1. Draw two Fanart100s.
I drew... 0.
2. Read five books.
3. Go to a training seminar, April 16.
4. Go to co-worker's birthday party.
FINAL GRADE: B+ (75%).
Woo?
-----
May I didn't even have goals, other than the implicit ones:
1. Draw three Fanart100s.
I drew... 0.
2. Read 5 books.
I read... 0. Or rather, FINISHED 0. I've been plugging away at The Name of the Wind, but half the time I get home and just want to sleep, not get sucked in to reading two hundred pages. (Because I can't read just a little bit of it, and long book is loooong.)
*sigh*
FINAL GRADE: F- (0%)
Wait, no, I guess that's not true. There were also three other implicit ones:
3. Buy presents and go to the birthday party for my aunt and dad.
4. Buy Mom a Mother's Day present.
5. Write the pilot script for Brad.
So let's call it...
FINAL GRADE: C- (60%)
A lot better, but still not fantastic.
-----
50 Book Challenge
10. Wicked, Gregory Maguire (1995)
This was... weird. I think it might have made more sense if I had read Wizard of Oz first. I enjoyed it to an extent, but it was... well... weird.
11. Best Bisexual Erotica 2, ed. Carol Queen & Bill Brent (2000)
Enjoyable, though erotica is always a bit hit-and-miss. Some stories were very hot; others were literally laughable.
12. Lucky, Alice Sebold (1999)
Katie G. says she never finished reading it because it was too depressing. (For those not in the know, it's a memoir of Sebold's rape and the aftermath.)
From a reader's perspective, I was kind of torn on it. There were moments of really riveting writing, but also a whole lot of meandering and seemingly meaningless tangents. It felt like it would have been better if she just stuck to the events as they happened, without the side quests into her family history. Part of that may stem from the fact that she wrote her family as just plain unlikeable...
I agree with most of the Amazon.com 3-star reviews, I guess is what I am saying. :P
13. A Fine and Private Place, Peter S. Beagle (1960)
This book was also an odd one. Not at all like The Last Unicorn - which makes sense; the latter was written eight years later and is pretty much a very different subgenre (magical realism vs. high fantasy).
...
ASIDE: in looking up facts for that last sentence, I discovered that someone wrote a MUSICAL for A Fine and Private Place. This kind of wigs me out, but also: I must see it. Also there is apparently a novelette tying together The Last Unicorn and a new novel being written in that universe, slated for next year?
Wikipedia better not be lying to me.
(Well, it isn't about the novelette.)
14. The Best American Erotica 2001, ed. Susie Bright (2001)
See comments to #11. I remember enjoying a bunch of these, but sometimes I just find them laughable. I DO remember that this one was a much quicker read than Best Bisexual Erotica 2, I think because I was more interested in the stories.
