It even has its own trailer...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
On My Reading List
I sorta, kinda want to read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but I'm concerned that I might not understand some of it since I've never read anything by Jane Austen before. I really, really, really want to read Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Killer.
It even has its own trailer...
It even has its own trailer...
Monday, April 19, 2010
Weekend Assignment: Summer Reading
The Weekend Assignment has a new home, a blog of its very own. This week's assignment has to do with our summer reading plans...
I've written before about my strange reading habits. I used to be a voracious reader until the Internet came along and gobbled up all of my free time. Now, it takes me much longer to get through a book, but I'll read from almost genre except romance.
My only hard and fast rule is that my next book is always completely different from what I'm reading now. To illustrate: I've been slowly (very slowly) working my way through the bibliography of Charles Dickens, and at this moment I'm about 120 pages into Great Expectations. Before that, there was (working backwards) a quick read about the history of NASCAR; The Black Ice by Michael Connelly, a police procedural thriller/mystery; Mila 18 by Leon Uris, a great piece of historical fiction; The Colorado Kid by Stephen King, an atypical King work -- more unsolved mystery than horror; and The Barrens and Others by F. Paul Wilson, a book of mostly horror short stories.
I've never really noticed any perceptible changes in my reading habits from one season to the next. Summer, winter, spring or fall, my reading doesn't fit any sort of pattern or genre. In the coming months, possibly during the summer, I'll try to find another Dickens book, another King book (I'm waiting for the local library to cough up a copy of Under the Dome), and anything else that strikes my fancy. The point is that I don't know what I'm going to be reading this summer, but the weather outside probably won't play much of a factor.
Okay, yes, I know, it's still spring, but this is when I begin thinking about what kind of summer reading I might like to have on hand for those too-hot-to-clean days of summer. So, for this week's assignment, I want you to share with us the kind of summer reading you look forward to the most. Sci-fi? Horror? Political Thrillers? Romance? It's all good. Now, tell me more!
I've written before about my strange reading habits. I used to be a voracious reader until the Internet came along and gobbled up all of my free time. Now, it takes me much longer to get through a book, but I'll read from almost genre except romance.
My only hard and fast rule is that my next book is always completely different from what I'm reading now. To illustrate: I've been slowly (very slowly) working my way through the bibliography of Charles Dickens, and at this moment I'm about 120 pages into Great Expectations. Before that, there was (working backwards) a quick read about the history of NASCAR; The Black Ice by Michael Connelly, a police procedural thriller/mystery; Mila 18 by Leon Uris, a great piece of historical fiction; The Colorado Kid by Stephen King, an atypical King work -- more unsolved mystery than horror; and The Barrens and Others by F. Paul Wilson, a book of mostly horror short stories.
I've never really noticed any perceptible changes in my reading habits from one season to the next. Summer, winter, spring or fall, my reading doesn't fit any sort of pattern or genre. In the coming months, possibly during the summer, I'll try to find another Dickens book, another King book (I'm waiting for the local library to cough up a copy of Under the Dome), and anything else that strikes my fancy. The point is that I don't know what I'm going to be reading this summer, but the weather outside probably won't play much of a factor.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Quotable
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on President Obama...
"It's very interesting to be with him. The most important thing that distinguishes him from many other people -- I won't name anyone by name -- he's a thinker. He thinks when he speaks."Hmm. Wonder who he might be thinking of?
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