SO! Realizing that I haven't posted in a while (seeing as Dad STILL has the internet back in California) I realized that I haven't posted anything about my latest project! Okay, goal. Probably the only goal I've ever concerned myself enough about to actually remember it, let alone reach it. Ha. Yeah, I'm a loser. But we've known that for a while now. But only when it comes to goals. Even in elementary school, when they'd make us set goals, I specifiaclly remember thinking it was stupid. And look to see how I've grown up.
Anyways! My goal!
I have pledged (to... myself, I guess. I don't think Oprah or the Queen of England really care about my particular goals) that before January 1st of next year, I will read 100 books. Okay, actually, it was more of, "I will read 100 books in the time between January 1st 2010 and January 1st 2011."
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT.
Guess who just finished Book #52? BOOYEAH.
I guess that means I'm right on schedule, eh? Only problem: I just ran out of books. Again. All my birthday books. Although, between you and me, the six of them lasted me two weeks, since I got on a writing kick after reading Stolen (read probably four posts back to my rant), and didn't read for a few days.
What you should also know is that I'm living limbo right now: only two more months until my dad's trial-job ends and we'll know if it will become permanint (meaning, whether the economy has come back up enough for him to start working with one of his old partners back in California again, doing the things he actually likes to do), and we FINALLY decide if we're staying here in Utah, if so, where, or if we're going back to California, if so, where, or somewhere completely different. (I'm not sure the Dubai offer is still in from last year, haha. Cause that'd be weird.) Thus, that's why I'm not really doing anything: I was GOING to start school at the DATC for MA, but I don't want to start here if I'm only staying a month, you know? I'll start when we've moved. Cause Gramma, who we're staying with, is moving out this summer, too. To, guess where? California. Only No. Cal, which we all know is vastly different and should therfore be a completely different state. (See? I haven't lost my California loyalties, unlike OTHERS I could mention... what with all this "Cali" nonsense... OHHHHHHHHHH THAT BUGS ME TO NO END...)
So. THE RULES:
1. I must read the entire book. I am only alloted twenty pages of skippage for the book to count as "read."
2. I may skip more than twenty pages WHILE STILL READING, just to satisfy my need to know what happens, but MUST go back and read the skipped pages for it to count as "read."
3. I may reread books, but again, they must be read all the way through (omitted the twenty pages overall, in dire and neccesary situations) not just skimmed, to count as "read."
4. If I can't give a review of the book after reading it, this means I was falling asleep while reading it, and therefore must go back and reread the parts I can't remember to make it "count."
5. More rules may be added as neccesary. But none may be eliminated.
6. My own works do not count. Okay, Let It Be does, but only if I read it straight-through. Which I rarely do.
7. Textbooks DO count, but seeing as not only do I not POSSESS any, the fact that I'm going to read it from cover-to-cover (omit alloted twenty pages) is so highly unlike I might laugh. But I thought it was good rule.
8. All books MUST be completed by January 1st, 12:00 AM. NO EXCEPTIONS. Unless I go into a coma....
9. If I go into a coma (medicine indused or otherwise) I will be allowed the number of days I was unconscious--- up until January 1st 2010--- to catch up. This is unlikely, but I'd like to be prepared.
So, happy reading, ya'll!
(Wanna know what I've been reading? Probably not, but I'm showing you anyways. The one's I've read since I last post. At the end, I'll post the list of all 100 I read.)
BOOKS COMPLETELD:
47. Stolen, Lucy Christopher
48. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
49. Wondrous Strange, Lesley Livingston
50. Eyes Like Stars, Lisa Mantchev
51. The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness
52. Shiver (reread), Maggie Steifvater
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