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Yeah, don't ask about the subject line - y'all really just have to be there when madre and me have these moments!

Anywho, said I'd read most of the day and was gonna post the updated chapter cross-off... well, here it is!

( Yay for Progress )
And total pimpage of dvshipper 's amazing icon - one of many of hers in my collection!

So after just over a month of posting NOTHING of my reading list, I come forth with progress, changes, and shifts in the list. 


First off, I gave up on the romance novel. I just COULDN'T take the bad writing and whatsuch. In the end, it was either give up on it or try and pretend I'd actually finish it, thus destroying my goal to complete my book list by August 22nd. So giving up on it was the right choice...


Of course I was in about two weeks of denial about giving up on it because i had to cop out on ANY of my list *sigh* So that put me a smidge behind in reading (i mean, TWO WEEKS - that's like three or four books i could've read!). And it also kinda killed that beginning drive to read that the first novel on the list had given me. But thankfully the next book on the list was the next SG-1 novel i needed to read, so again my urge to read, read, read has been restored! And what's fun is the next two books are SG-1 books as well (though only one of them is a novel)....


But back to the being a smidge behind. I was discussing it with Madre, and we did a bit of rough math (there was a 4 carried, yes) and came to the conclusion that I just wouldn't be able to do it in time with all the books I had on the list. So after some thing and gazing upon the list, I decided to take all the STAR WARS novels OFF and save those for a time when I'm ready to sit down and read ALL of the novels I have (b/c I have a lot of the after the movies novels that i have never cracked open). I also took the one book i had y'all vote on off the list, simply because I AM determined to reach my goal and i don't want a non-novel or sg-1 book to get me in the same place the romance novel did. Even with all the changes, that still leaves 20 books on the list.  *sigh* It'll be tough, but i AM determined to finish this list before Chicago (or possibly even whil AT Chicago). 




And as you can on the list up there, I finished Siren Song. I am STILL gonna post it's chapter table just for my own personal 'record' and so i have a place with the page count. XD


 
Now I just had a gander at my next book, and like the season companions, it doesn't have actually 'CHAPTERS', so i'll be doing just the page count update like I did for the S.9 Companion....


~Pip

 Okie donkie, we're gonna start the spamming off with my reading accomplishments for the past week...


I DID end up finishing Memoirs of a Geisha last Wednesday night, so I can finish off the chapter cross-off, give it a short little review, and cross it off the list! *dances*



And now it can be crossed off the list! XD



And Thursday, I started the next book. It's a romance novel *gasp*, and I don't think reading THIS after Memoirs of a Geisha was such a great idea. I'm also beginning to realize WHY I don't read romance novels (and it's not because i have a problem with the sex in them)...

Thank taraleesg1 for that subject line - it was her beginning marathoning that gave me the idea...


There's a couple of things i need to post on...


Starting with an update on my reading, because YES, I have been keeping up with it...actually, it's very likely I will finish the book up tonight...but I wanted to post on my progress now so i have some sense of keeping a half-assed detailed account of my reading: 

 


Moving on, guess I should talk about the big 'drama' of the past couple of days. Ted was in the hospital. It wasn't anything MAJOR MAJOR, but it was something pretty...not mundane... Something had bit him in the elbow or some such thing, so his arm was really swollen and wasn't getting better for days (friday was the day it first started swelling)... Monday he went to the VA, and the doc that saw him immediately sent him to the ER. They got to him right away (which makes me think it was pretty intense, but the way everyone talked about it really played it down a lot...plus i'm trying not to dwell on how many times I've been to the hospital in the past three days *shudders*), and they kept him over night Monday night and last night.... gave him antibiotics cause his arm was infected, and today drained his elbow. He's home now, which is...well, yeah...


I am being a might bit selfish though because if he had stayed in the hospital again tonight, there was a chance I'd get to see Indy tonight at midnight. But since he came home, that's now out of the question. Which means, unless I can really kiss ass tomorrow, I'm gonna have to wait until Sunday to see it. I definitely don't approve of this at all, but I know when and when not to push buttons, and right now is a not time. 


Anywho, watch my two shows.....both of which were amazing. I won't make a cut for the Tudors...but let me just say that the stuff with Henry and Anne this episode was INTENSE!!! OMG, this show...i swear it just keeps getting better and better!!


As for NCIS - well, i'll be kind and put it behind a cut.  


Okie donkie, I think that's about it for now. Now I will go get ready for bed, and then finish off Memoirs of a Geisha! 

~Pip


 

So on Saturday, while I was in the box, I decided to read instead of work on the Michael vid - that being said, I finished the S.9 Companion, and started into Memoirs of a Geisha (the next on the list, of course). Before I even went inside that night from working, I had read 100-something pages. Of course considering there's just about 500 pages in the frelling book, it's not too much.


ANYWHO, I have come to update my list and start a chapter cross-off for Memoirs of a Geisha...  





And just so I have an official page count of the S.9 Companion (so I can add the totals up when I finish the list!), let me do this:

SG-1 Season 9 Companion ~~~> 157/157 pages [COMPLETED 5/10/08! XD]


Okie donkie, that is all for now - I know there's more I want to update on, but I'll wait until later to do that...

~Pip

Took me all of 5 DAYS to finish off 'City of the Gods'. That's right, my dear flist, I have already knocked the first book off the list! Considering the fact of my pathetic lack of novel reading in the past year and half or so, and that I also wrote TWO fics, started a third one, went to classes, did homework, saw a movie at the SLC, as well as watched A New Hope and the end of TTT in those days (as wel as watched SG-1, of course) - that's not bad! 


I am QUITE pleased with myself, for I am taking time out of my day specifically for reading! Novels - how I've missed them!


So here's here's the final post for the 'City of the Gods' Chapter Cross-Off (as well as my thoughts on the book compared to the other SG-1 Fandemonium novels I'v read so far):

Alrighty, now i'm off to see Cloverfield - I'll try and post my Summer Reading list later, with it's much need adjustments...

So yes, I have been keeping up with my reading - and i broke away from just using Starbucks and read at McDonald's and by the Keen building (in the little grassy area)...and since I've knocked out several more chapters, I'm gonna update the cross-off list (with some added goodies at the end)...


   

So I was a good girl today (don't get any ideas now!) and spent an hour and a half at Starbucks diving into the first book on my list, which just happens to be 'City of the Gods', the 4th novel  in the SG-1 Fandemonium Series. So this post is gonna be for the chapter cross-off list, like I did for Local Custom. And I have a little duty for anyone who cares: If I don't update this after a few days, don't be afraid to drop a friendly nudging comment to keep my ass in gear here...


  
And for those who get it:

I ALREADY have an AM, and I'm only 4 chapters in! SCORE!