Tag: books

They’re gonna clean up your looks, with all the lies in the books

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I have a book haul! Well, a book haul over the last two days. Completionist? Yeah, it’s been picking at me.

When I first got to TinyTown, I found The Lord of the Rings. Cool, I thought. Then a few weeks later, I was in a rush and thought I was picking up book two, when it was really book three. That annoyed me. Like a month or two ago, while in SlightlyBiggerTown, I found book two, but thought, I didn’t need it right away, but if it’s here the next time, I’d pick it up. That went on for weeks. I finally got it today. Set completed.

I’ve been searching for this one for a while. Like I told my mom, this will be good (set completed) until I can buy it so it matches the other ones in the set. Now, finally, I can read the whole saga again. Woot! Lmao now the mission is to find all the mass market paperbacks for the saga! Oh my god, what have I started?

This one is for Crystal. I know how much she loves this series, I saw it at the end of last week. I asked her if she wanted me to get it. She said not to worry about it, but you should’ve seen her eyes light up when I showed it to her last night. It made my whole week to see her happy with it. Now, another series to find all the books for her! Granted, I’ll probably read it too.

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And if you get to heaven, I’ll be here waiting, baby

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Awake! I have coffee, and I’m ready to greet the day! It’s Friday, and probably in a few hours, we’ll be heading to SlightlyBiggerTown for the weekly grocery trip. So far (knocks on wood), I’m the only one awake.

So we’ll see what time we actually leave. My mom told my grandmother, that we’ll leave when everyone is ready, around 9:30-10.

I’ve been thinking about it, and if the second hand store is open, I’m going to go and get the Two Towers – I’m really trying not to be a completionist, it’s just annoying me to see book one, and book three on the shelf.

I can’t think of anything else to share right now. It’s almost time to start the weekend everyone! Only a couple more hours!

Sometimes I’m a strong man, sometimes cold and scared

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So I emailed the local library asking when the next book sale will be they didn’t have a date planned, but they said I could come down and poke through their shed of books.

Nothing jumped out at me – a lot of Readers Digest Condensed books, kids books, a couple of James Bond novels, but nothing I had to have.

I did volunteer to organize the books and take photos for an online book sale. But we’ll see if that pans out. I’ve offered to volunteer at a couple of places, and people seemed excited, but nothing has come of it. It’s been six months and nothing yet. But maybe I’ll be able to help the library out.

So from there, I hoofed it over to the second hand store. I stood in line for half an hour – as they have their pandemic rules in effect, only six people in at a time. That’s ok, I’ve never seen it that busy. Then I saw why, they’re doing a bag sale – stuff a bag full of clothes, and only pay $7

I did manage to find two books!

Can’t wait to start them after the book I’m currently reading. Crystal always says that his short stories are really good, but I don’t think she’s read these ones because they are some of his newer ones. We’ll see how it turns out.

Yay reading!

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These fragile bodies of touch and taste

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Good morning everyone. Time to get up and greet the day – the day of Tues. it looks sunny and bright outside, and it’s warm enough to already have the door to the garage open.

I slept like a log again last night, only getting up once in the night, and I was able to go right back to sleep. The bed was so snuggly, I didn’t want to get up. But I did, made some coffee, and now I’m watching the Canadian today show. They have some of the worst jokes – I think even worse than Al Roker. If I remember, I have a joke for Crystal when I call her tonight.

I just passed chapter 5 in The Historian. I’m enjoying the slow burn story so far. It’s Tuesday, and only 15 more chapters before the first Book Club meeting. But it’s like I can see the future, and I’ll post about the first 20 chapters, and I’ll be the only one talking about it, and no discussions will follow. And that’s ok.

But, time to drink some coffee, and watch some TV, happy Tuesday!

But they don’t mean a thing if you’re not with me

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So sitting here and thinking about the book club I’d like to start, and Crystal is napping, so I can’t bounce ideas off of her, I decided to plow ahead full speed* and I decided the first book for my Lockup Library Book Club, and that is:

The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova.

There’s 79 chapters in the book so I broke it down like this:

  • Chapters 1-20 due Oct 10th
  • Chapters 21-40 due Oct 17th
  • Chapters 41-60 due Oct 24th
  • Chapters 61-79 due Oct 31st

I figure every seven days we come back and discuss the previous chapters, you know that deal – what we thought, where it’s going, etc.

* it’s better to keep my head thinking about this, otherwise, I’d really be freaking out about my mom taking my dad to the hospital 30 minutes away. His knee/leg is all swollen. I’m a little freaky-outie right now to be honest.

Big sigh