Checked Out
- Riders of High Rock by Louis L’amour
Bought
- King’s Dragon by Kate Elliott
- Prince of Dogs by Kate Elliott
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman (e-book)
- National Geographic Tales of the Weird
Read
- Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
- “Morality” by Stephen King
TBR: 33
Tis the season to start spending money on people. I don’t mind spending money on people. I love to make my friends and family happy. I’m just not particularly good at it. Seriously. I am horrible at buying gifts. I have no idea what to buy anyone and I am on a budget. My Christmas Club is never big enough to be much of a help. This year I’ve decided to make some gifts for friends and to buy gifts for the family, one person per check. To kick off this holiday shopping season, I take care of the first gift to be given: Hubby’s birthday present. Hubby’s birthday is in early November but with all of the budgeting and planning I may as well include it in my Christmas shopping.
What does this have to do with my reading life?
I may have just ordered his gift early with two day shipping from Amazon because I needed to order a book anyway. Shit. I am selfish. But his gift will be here two weeks early and Welcome to Night Vale will be here two days after release date. I was TRYING to get free shipping, you guys. Come on. (Also, I was thinking that the sooner we got his gift, the more reading time I would have. Shhh.)
It feels like fall is slipping away from me. Because it is. What I need is a day to sit on the couch and read with kitties and tea and blankies. Don’t we all? But I also need a couple of pumpkins and some cider and horror movies and hoodies. Life is kind of like that.
I am currently experiencing the disconnect that I completely forgot from my first read of New Moon. In Twilight I decided that Bella wasn’t that bad. Actually, she was kind of cool. She was stubborn. She was writing a paper about feminism. She was strong. Who cared if she was swooney too? Then I started New Moon and it’s like I’m reading about a completely different character. She’s so washed out! She’s so… CLINGY! Man, it’s almost embarrassing to read. I’m going to power through though, starting right after I finish this post. I’m going to take a break and read for a bit.
Tonight, I would like nothing more than to go home and set myself up in bed and eat some pot pie or stew and read. (Yes, I will eat stew in bed. Don’t you judge me.) Alas, I have to help move some furniture because…. WE’RE GETTING ANOTHER SHELF! My brother in law has gifted us an entertainment center which we will be putting in Hubby’s room and piling with books. He has a whole plan to make a little reading nook with a couple of wall mounted shelves and his armchair. I’m actually a little jealous.
Let me close with this tale of Hubby’s room: Half of the basement is Hubby’s room which we have been discussing turning into a music room for a while now. It currently houses his guitars and two drum sets, only one of which is ours, plus all of the stuff he had in his room at his old apartment. Well, one night he was jamming with our drummer friend and as they were walking out of the room, D said, “Hey man, are your shelves supposed to lean like that?” Hubby had bought one of those five shelf shelves for super cheap and it was leaning a little to the side. Hubby shrugged and forgot about it. Until the next day when the whole thing came crashing down. We actually walked over a pile of books and splintered shelf for a while.
We have problems.