book list, February 2006

I made three resolutions this year. First, get a job. (Done.) Second, exercise more regularly and lose weight. (In process.) Third, keep a list of my reading material.

These are the books I read in February, 2006:

New: 2
---The Turn of the Screw, Henry James (fiction: highly literary ghost story, made me want to tear my hair out in sheer frustration)
---Petshop of Horrors, volume 10, Matsuri Akino (manga: awfully pretty; I really have to stop reading things out of order, though...)


Old: 9
---On Writing, Stephen King (nonfiction: I don't follow his method -- for example, I do use outlines -- but it's a fascinating book, and always readable)
---Trigun, volumes 1 and 2, Yasuhiro Nightow (manga: cracked-out sci-fi, gunfights, reads much better the second time through)
---Trigun Maximum, volumes 1-5, Yasuhiro Nightow (manga: ditto above; it's a continuation)
---The Iroquois Trail: Dickon Among the Onondagas and Senecas, M. R. Harrington (historical fiction: sequel to The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon Among the Lenapes, both set during the early 1600s. I think my dad originally acquired the books because Rutgers University republished them in the 1960s. They have quite a lot of information, and they're not bad stories either -- very clean and readable -- though there's a piece of period-accurate sexism at the end of The Iroquois Trail that bugs me every time I read it.)


February Total = 11 books (plus a bunch of fanfiction, quite a lot of newspapers, and several magazines)

Year to Date = 34 books (16 new, 18 old)

book list, February 2006

I made three resolutions this year. First, get a job. (Done.) Second, exercise more regularly and lose weight. (In process.) Third, keep a list of my reading material.

These are the books I read in February, 2006:

New: 2
---The Turn of the Screw, Henry James (fiction: highly literary ghost story, made me want to tear my hair out in sheer frustration)
---Petshop of Horrors, volume 10, Matsuri Akino (manga: awfully pretty; I really have to stop reading things out of order, though...)


Old: 9
---On Writing, Stephen King (nonfiction: I don't follow his method -- for example, I do use outlines -- but it's a fascinating book, and always readable)
---Trigun, volumes 1 and 2, Yasuhiro Nightow (manga: cracked-out sci-fi, gunfights, reads much better the second time through)
---Trigun Maximum, volumes 1-5, Yasuhiro Nightow (manga: ditto above; it's a continuation)
---The Iroquois Trail: Dickon Among the Onondagas and Senecas, M. R. Harrington (historical fiction: sequel to The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon Among the Lenapes, both set during the early 1600s. I think my dad originally acquired the books because Rutgers University republished them in the 1960s. They have quite a lot of information, and they're not bad stories either -- very clean and readable -- though there's a piece of period-accurate sexism at the end of The Iroquois Trail that bugs me every time I read it.)


February Total = 11 books (plus a bunch of fanfiction, quite a lot of newspapers, and several magazines)

Year to Date = 34 books (16 new, 18 old)

[Fic] "Domesticity" -- Harry Potter

This is for theme #1 - Bloodlines, at the thirtyforthree community. It's a dialogue-only ficlet, because I felt like experimenting; I've decided that's a technique I have no need to try again. Some mild cursing.

( Domesticity )

[Fic] "Domesticity" -- Harry Potter

This is for theme #1 - Bloodlines, at the thirtyforthree community. It's a dialogue-only ficlet, because I felt like experimenting; I've decided that's a technique I have no need to try again. Some mild cursing.

( Domesticity )