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12 October 2008 @ 06:03 pm
I tried to give up or rather cut back of caffeine these past two weeks. I failed. Or not really failed but rather I am convinced caffeine is brain food. When I am highly caffeinated my brain works. When I write the words flow effortlessly onto the page. I even read better. When I am un-caffeinated my brain refuses to pick out the words and moves slowly and laboriously from one word to the next. I hate it. So I am sticking with the notion that caffeine is actually good for you and consuming obscene amounts and speed reading and writing my way through life.
 
 
Hillary
19 March 2008 @ 07:59 pm
It supposed to be a thunderstorm tonight. A bad one
-scary books? check
flashlight? check
Snacks? check

I think i am ready
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Hillary
31 January 2008 @ 01:25 am
I finally remembered to take my library  books back. I bet you are wondering why I get library books when I spend all my money on buying books. I am all for supporting the literacy scene. I go to libraries just so that they will stay open, I write to congress about better libraries, I go to reading groups etc. The problem is that my love for books goes past the enjoyment stage right in to the addiction stage. I see a book in a store and I must have it right then and there. I go to a sale and I see books at discounted prices and I come home with bags of books. Lord help me and whoever is with me if we past a bookstore. I go to peoples houses and I judge them by the books they have. and on and on
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Hillary
15 November 2007 @ 08:38 pm
This meme is going around the book blogosphere so I thought I  would join in. The ones in bold I have read.
  1. Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
  2. Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire
  3. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
  4. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
  5. Virginia Woolf, The Waves
  6. Virginia Woolf, Orlando
  7. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
  8. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
  9. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
  10. Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
  11. Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
  12. Nadine Gordimer, Burger's Daughter
  13. Harriette Simpson Arnow, The Dollmaker
  14. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
  15. Willa Cather, My Ántonia
  16. Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
  17. Erica Jong, Fanny
  18. Joy Kogawa, Obasan
  19. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
  20. Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child
  21. Doris Lessing, The Grass Is Singing
  22. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
  23. Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
  24. Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
  25. Lore Segal, Her First American
  26. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
  27. Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland
  28. Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
  29. Muriel Spark, Memento Mori
  30. Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  31. Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
  32. Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
  33. Susan Fromberg Shaeffer, Anya
  34. Cynthia Ozick, Trust
  35. Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
  36. Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife
  37. Ann Beattie, Chilly Scenes of Winter
  38. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
  39. Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
  40. Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays
  41. Mary McCarthy, The Group
  42. Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps
  43. Grace Paley, The Little Disturbances of Man
  44. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
  45. Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  46. Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
  47. Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
  48. Mona Simpson, Anywhere But Here
  49. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
  50. Toni Morrison, Beloved
  51. Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
  52. Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mr. Fortune's Maggot
  53. Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools
  54. Laura Riding, Progress of Stories
  55. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
  56. Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower
  57. Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
  58. A.S. Byatt, Possession
  59. Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
  60. Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle
  61. Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
  62. Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
  63. Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
  64. Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
  65. Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  66. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
  67. Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
  68. Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
  69. Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
  70. Nancy Willard, Things Invisible to See
  71. Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
  72. Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Disturbances in the Field
  73. Rosellen Brown, Civil Wars
  74. Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
  75. Harriet Doerr, The Mountain Lion
  76. Stevie Smith. Novel on Yellow Paper
  77. E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
  78. Rebecca Goldstein, The Mind-Body Problem
  79. P.D. James, The Children of Men
  80. Ursula Hegi, Stones From the River
  81. Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
  82. Katherine Mansfield, Collected Stories
  83. Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
  84. Louise Erdrich, The Beet Queen
  85. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
  86. Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls Trilogy
  87. Margaret Drabble, Realms of Gold
  88. Margaret Drabble, The Waterfall
  89. Dawn Powell, The Locusts Have No King
  90. Marilyn French, The Women's Room
  91. Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter
  92. Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
  93. Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
  94. Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle
  95. Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
  96. Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
  97. Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
  98. Alice Hoffman, The Drowning Season
  99. Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
  100. Penelope Mortimer, The Pumpkin Eater
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Hillary
11 November 2007 @ 11:12 am
I must put down my book and clean my kitchen before the rats decide to move in.
 
 
Hillary
05 October 2007 @ 07:28 pm
It is at times like these that I wonder why I insist on hording books. It took 6 big boxes and that is only the books I havent read yet.
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Hillary
10 September 2007 @ 02:42 am

Jesus,Mary and Joesph being mentally ill is time consuming. I have been going to three different doctors. I had to have blood drawn to make sure my meds for being a depressed maniac was not harming my physical self too much. In between it all though I managed to read The World Is Flat. It is about the flatting of the world in the economical sense. This is the same author who wrote the Lexus and the Olive Tree. He explains precisely how and why the "grunt work" in the American economy is being outsourced. Leaving, theoretically at least, the job of pushing the limits of what is possible to us Americans. A new Revolution is almost upon us. As they said in Star Trek, let us go boldly where no one has gone before". 

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Hillary
31 July 2007 @ 12:58 am
I have been having bad luck with books. I am a member of bookcrossing, bookmooch and paperbackswap. I should have had 5 books come to me in the last 3 weeks. None has shown up. I know that 5 books can not get lost in the US postal systeam. I hope the postman is not stealing or that the people who live in the area are getting them out of my box before I do. I will forgive a lot of things but no one messes with my books and not suffer the consequences.  Still, it makes me nervous. One or two is understandable but five?
 
 
Hillary
28 July 2007 @ 12:44 am
 I finally got up the courage to read the last one hundred pages of Harry Potter. Laugh if you want but i could not stand it if that really was the end. I am not saying anything lest I ruin it for others but JK Rowling is a genius!
 
 
Hillary
22 July 2007 @ 03:21 pm
I finally, one day late, have my very own copy of Harry Potter. I got suckered into going camping and lets just say my stepfathers family are all illiterate dumbasses... I will leave it at that for right now. I am going to take a bath, then I am going to go read.
 
 
Hillary
13 July 2007 @ 07:58 pm

If anyone is interested I finally got a list of all the books I have read since Oct 31 2006. Although I dont think I am going to make my goal of 200 read books this year I think I at least read more than the average American, That and Grad school leaves no time for pleasure reading. Click here

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Hillary
02 July 2007 @ 09:35 pm
The books on my Mount TBR is in my room. I have them separated much like you would find in a library. I have my bookcrossing bookring books separately so I will not get them mixed up. I arrived home today to find that she had rearranged them according to book size. Big to small. I almost had a heart attack right then and there.  I mean who arranges books by their size? That is just not logical.

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Hillary
19 June 2007 @ 08:58 pm
ok I am feelinga  bit more human now. I am getting over the worst sinus infection ever. Well it felt like it. I rarely get sick and when I do get sick I can be a big baby about it. In did finish three books.
I have been sad ever since one of my favorite authors Anne Rice is now only writing Jesus books. Not that theres anything wrong with that but I do miss Lestat and Armand. So I was at the library and saw

 It claimed to be on the same kind of vampire story as Ann Rice.  The writing style is completely different. The Vampires are even different.  The only thing that was constant in both authors was that it had vampires and the struggle between good and evil. However it was still a good book.
 
 
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Hillary
07 May 2007 @ 07:56 pm
In other more purplemoonstar like news I am on my last bookcrossing book and then I will be all caught up! I have felt like horrible horrible bookcrosser but what with Grad school and all...
Next time I will know how to divide my time.