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I've spent my limit on books this pay period but next payday I have to buy this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083C26CWM?tag=bbsyemailwwm-20

Those Who Hunger: An Amish Vampire Thriller.

An Amish vampire thriller! This I have to see.

Amazon (US - I didn't check the UK or Canada stores) has the first three volumes of The Dragonriders of Pern in a "boxed set" for $1.99 today. I think the deal's good through 3/27. If you have any sort of Kindle and are a McCaffrey fan, it's probably worth the 2 bucks!

I've been tagging my journal (one more year to go but it's over two hours past bedtime and work will come way too early, so I'm done for now). While doing that, I found this meme that I've done twice before in the past few years. I had fun doing it so I'm trotting it out again. I hope others will play!

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5.Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).

"No," he said. "Not this deck. I'm four cards short: two aces and two eights. The Romulan was still holding them when he transported." Tobin folded the fan and said, "I finally got the trick right." Then he slipped the deck back into his pocket, knowing it would be a while before he took it out again." (Star Trek: The Lives of Dax - "Dead Man's Hand" by Jeffrey Lang. Huh. The last time I did this meme, the first book I put my hand on was also a Star Trek book, a novel. Looking at the pile, I see I just missed a Nancy Drew book!)

In 2007 I had a personal goal of reading 52 books - one a week. I made that goal and actually exceeded it by a few. (How I miss the day of junior high and high school when I could read 2 or 3 books a week. But that was before full-time jobs. And fanfic. And I watched very little tv then as well.)

In 2008 I went back to school to finish my bachelors degree, so I made a goal of reading 26 books - one every other week. I fell short by three and I'm telling you, it's all Twilight's fault. I saw the book on a coworker's desk and she offered to loan it to me. I like vampire stories, so I borrowed it, read it - it was neither good nor bad and I made polite noises when I returned it to her - so she ended up loaning me all the others. Each book is, I think, double the size of the first and, while the story itself is ok (except for that teenage, Romeo & Juliet, "if I'm not with you I'll diiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee note that does run through all of them) and the writing does improve perceptibly with each one, the author needs an editor. Desperately. Each novel could be a fraction of the size it is now and still tell the story effectively - maybe moreso. Anyway, the last one is something like 10,000 pages long (ok, so I exaggerate a bit) and even though I was speed-reading it, skimming huge chunks - and I'm a fast reader anyway - it couldn't keep my interest and took me over a month to read. I should've been reading other books at the same time but I wasn't, so for over a month I didn't finish reading a single book. So I'm three short of my goal and it is all Twilight's fault!

My goal this year, by the way, is 39, at least for now. I finish school in June, so I split the difference between 26 and 52. I think 39 is right. Anyway, I'm contemplating grad school and if I do that, then I'll be revising that goal, but for now it stands at 39.

Gakked from teresa_c

I remember doing this one awhile back; it's interesting and I thought it was fun to see it come around again.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences in your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that cool or intellectual book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag three people

"I beg your pardon?" "Let's look at this objectively for a moment. The Cardassians are the ones who charted and discovered the planet, they're the ones who found the Ch'gran remains."

(From The Lost Era: The Art of the Impossible by Keith R. A. DeCandido.)

Tag: ozma914, curiouswombat, and mereridkat. (And anyone else who wants to play!)

It's been several weeks since I registered my livejournal - I guess now's as good a time as any to begin writing.

Actually, I decided to begin writing today because I found this while looking through a friend's friends' entries:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

From *The Elements of Style* (Strunk and White): "Omit needless words."

Perhaps I should stop writing now.

(Thanks, tinuviel8994, for this bit of fun.)