Like Shooting Stars

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)...

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

So after reading 'City of the Gods', and seeing that there was references to 'Sacrifice Moon' in it, I realized that it would probably be in my best interest is i "unrandomized" the remaining novels on my book list...now it's just the SG-1 novels I'm moving around. All the other book will remain where they are on the list...


I just don't want to be reading one of the later novels without having read the earlier ones, and have a reference that I won't appreciate like I should...

Also, I'm randomly adding in the winning book...

( Reading is Sexy )

Alrighty, so I made my summer reading list yesterday by selecting books randomly (to know which order to read them in) - I felt I would stay more focused if I didn't make the order out of my own accord, but did it so it wasn't biased - I'm pleased with the mixed up nature of the list, so...without further ado:


( Reading is Sexy! )