Novels 2008

( Books I've read in 2008 1-12 )

15. The Idiot by Dostoevsky
16. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
17. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
18. Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
19. Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik

20. Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
This book could have been crap and I would still have loved it for its happy ending: and then Harry Dresden went and played D&D with the werewolves. But it wasn't crap. The Dresden series gets better with each installment (it's still pulp, of course, but highly entertaining) and this parallels another development: it's more of a fantasy novel. The series started out as a hardboiled detective story with fantasy elements, and now it is a fantasy story whose protagonist happens to be a PD as well. I guess this shows where my preferences lie.

Next up is some serious reading! The next semester is close, and I've got Hawthorne, Updike and Arthur Miller to read, as well as some medieval German stuff.

Novels 2008

( Books I've read in 2008 1-12 )

15. The Idiot by Dostoevsky
16. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
17. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
18. Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
19. Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik

20. Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
This book could have been crap and I would still have loved it for its happy ending: and then Harry Dresden went and played D&D with the werewolves. But it wasn't crap. The Dresden series gets better with each installment (it's still pulp, of course, but highly entertaining) and this parallels another development: it's more of a fantasy novel. The series started out as a hardboiled detective story with fantasy elements, and now it is a fantasy story whose protagonist happens to be a PD as well. I guess this shows where my preferences lie.

Next up is some serious reading! The next semester is close, and I've got Hawthorne, Updike and Arthur Miller to read, as well as some medieval German stuff.

HALP

I've been having a problem for months now, and in true me-fashion, I quietly hoped it would go away, but that's just rather silly, and it obviously won't.

LJ isn't sending me comments via e-mail, no matter how often I use the comment setting to remind it to do so. I've been using the message centre thing at LJ for the last couple of days, but that's rather impractical. My e-mail account is a hotmail one. Any ideas how to solve this problem or what might be the cause?

ETA: I switched the mail adress from Hotmail to Yahoo - let's hope it works!
ETA 2: It works! Yahoo receives mails. Thank you, awesome flist :D

HALP

I've been having a problem for months now, and in true me-fashion, I quietly hoped it would go away, but that's just rather silly, and it obviously won't.

LJ isn't sending me comments via e-mail, no matter how often I use the comment setting to remind it to do so. I've been using the message centre thing at LJ for the last couple of days, but that's rather impractical. My e-mail account is a hotmail one. Any ideas how to solve this problem or what might be the cause?

ETA: I switched the mail adress from Hotmail to Yahoo - let's hope it works!
ETA 2: It works! Yahoo receives mails. Thank you, awesome flist :D

Hyper-difficult meme

Did sport for the third week in row! Voluntarily!

I would have done this, except that when you see your name on the list, curiosity gets overwhelming ;) There aren't any mean questions on the list, just weird/funny/embarrassing ones.

1. There are 30 questions.
2. Next to each number, write only the name of the person who fits.
3. Answer one question with one name. (Didn't do that, obviously.)
4. Don't tell the questions to anyone who isn't doing the meme.


1. jen_in_japan, enigmaticblues, slinkling, voldything gnine
2. enigmaticblues, itmustbetuesday
3. the_rejection, aralias, jen_in_japan, deborah_judge
4. mosellegreen
5. hils
6. Most of you.
7. x_los, danceswithgary,
8. attaccabottoni, xparrot
9. __marcelo, x_los, xparrot, snowgrouse, attaccabottoni, romanyg, gritsinmisery, marah_sarie
10. mahaliem, rivkat, makesmewannadie, speakr2customrs
11. None of you, strangely.
12. theclexfactor
13. calapine
14. speakr2customrs
15. None.
16. selenak
17. palereverie, satora_chan, venilia, lukita
18. Er. None.
19. rivkat, betty_brown, __marcelo, norwich36
20. __marcelo, mosellegreen, teh_no
21. roxymissrose, teh_no
22. The majority of you.
23. x_los, snowgrouse
24. None, hopefully.
25. seacrystal
26. None.
27. morganichele, lapetite_kiki, digitalwave
28. aralias
29. None.
30. This is based solely on your LJ performance, since I know none of you personally.

Hyper-difficult meme

Did sport for the third week in row! Voluntarily!

I would have done this, except that when you see your name on the list, curiosity gets overwhelming ;) There aren't any mean questions on the list, just weird/funny/embarrassing ones.

1. There are 30 questions.
2. Next to each number, write only the name of the person who fits.
3. Answer one question with one name. (Didn't do that, obviously.)
4. Don't tell the questions to anyone who isn't doing the meme.


1. jen_in_japan, enigmaticblues, slinkling, voldything gnine
2. enigmaticblues, itmustbetuesday
3. the_rejection, aralias, jen_in_japan, deborah_judge
4. mosellegreen
5. hils
6. Most of you.
7. x_los, danceswithgary,
8. attaccabottoni, xparrot
9. __marcelo, x_los, xparrot, snowgrouse, attaccabottoni, romanyg, gritsinmisery, marah_sarie
10. mahaliem, rivkat, makesmewannadie, speakr2customrs
11. None of you, strangely.
12. theclexfactor
13. calapine
14. speakr2customrs
15. None.
16. selenak
17. palereverie, satora_chan, venilia, lukita
18. Er. None.
19. rivkat, betty_brown, __marcelo, norwich36
20. __marcelo, mosellegreen, teh_no
21. roxymissrose, teh_no
22. The majority of you.
23. x_los, snowgrouse
24. None, hopefully.
25. seacrystal
26. None.
27. morganichele, lapetite_kiki, digitalwave
28. aralias
29. None.
30. This is based solely on your LJ performance, since I know none of you personally.