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I get some of the weirdest friends requests over at GoodReads. I have no idea how these people even find me. Like, Gary, 15, from Highlands, MI.
Profile quote: "i like to all extreme sports. i dont really like reading book but i would like to learn to like them."

How can I not add Gary back? He wants to learn to like books! It's adorable! Plus, he is from Highland, MI, and wherever that might be, it sounds as if they are wearing kilts over there.
I wonder if he is really fifteen.

For a while I also had a little fanclub in Wixom, MI, but then I denied one of the friends requests from there, and now they don't like me anymore. There doesn't seem to be much going on in MI if all they have to do is stalk me on GoodReads. :-)

Actually, it's not really stalking on GoodReads. That's the great thing about the site: because it only has bookreviews and no blogging content, you have no real connection to your "friends" list except that you get updated about the books they read and the reviews they write. It's a very literate and completely impersonal kind of stalking. And they have a "best reviewers/librarians" etc list for each country, and yes, it does give me a kick to be on there. Never let it be said that reading is not competitive... ;-)

My plan for Saturday was:
- buy book as soon as Hugendubel opens
- buy food on market, possibly reading at the same time, if market is not too crowded
- read
- meet people to watch Christopher Street Day Parade
-read
-go horseriding
-read

Instead I did this
- crawled out of bed an hour after Hugendubel opened
- bought book
- crawled through market, feeling sick at thought of food
- read 50 pages
- feel sick
- read ten more pages
- sleep
- read another ten pages
- again with the sick
- and the sleep

NO FUN AT ALL!
I managed to finally make it through the book at about 11.30 p.m., cuase it's Harry Damn Potter, and I'll be damned if I don't read that book on the day it is released, and which - considering that I slept all day - is quite alright. But it would have been more fun it I hadn't fallen asleep all the time.

( My reaction (completely unspoilery, but I know how some of you are. Including myself.) )

Hot Library Smut

The British Library does it for me. What's your kink?

I've read an insane amount of fanfic these last two months, so I didn't have time to read many books. Here's what kept my eyes busy inbetween all the fanfic:

( Annie Proulx - Close Range -Wyoming Stories )

( Mark Frost - The List of Seven )

( John Banville - The Sea )

( Kathy Reichs - Break No Bones )

( Nicole Krauss - The History of Love )

You can find more of this (I hesitate to call these reviews) here.

I haven't had much time to read in the months before my exams, but I'm trying to catch up with my reading list. Here's what I read during the last three months:

( Rita Mae Brown - Catch as Cat can, Murder on the Prowl, Cat's Eyewitness and Cat on the Scent )

( Alex Garland - The Coma )

( Jeffrey Steingarten - The Man Who Ate Everything and It Must have been Something I ate )

( Robyn Sisman - Weekend in Paris )

( Julie Orringer - How To Breathe Underwater )

( Peanuts 1950 - 1954 )

I have a little over 100 books on my amazon wishlist and about twenty unread ones lying around, so I guess I won't get bored. Ever again. ;-)

If I continue to read like this, I may post my reading list regularly. You can find my last one here, if you are interested.

But on to the books I read in the last three weeks

( 1) Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife )

( 2) Karin Slaughter - Blindsighted )

( 3) Kathy Reichs - Cross Bones )

( 4) Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the dog in the the night-time )

( 5) Carolyn Parkhurst - The Dogs of Babel )

And then there was of course 6) J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. But I don't think I need to tell you anything about that, do I? *g*

Next on my reading list: "John Henry Days" by Colson Whitehead, "The Book of Nothing" by John D. Barrow and "Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise" by Dai Sijie.

Sometimes I feel adventurous and read original fiction.
Uhm, I mean books. That's what they call them.
Like Andrew Pyper's "Lost Girls", where I found this little quote:

"I'm uncomfortably aware of my buttocks squishing and slipping against each other like mating seals."

Oh, I'm so easily amused these days. :-)

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