Tricky vs. Shifty

I have a topic to write about, thanks to turtle_head!

What I will be reading at my new Friday job and how I choose it:

I read all sorts of stuff - non-fiction, fiction, young adult novels, pretty much anything really. I am more picky about magazines (I regularly read Bitch, BUST, and Real Simple, and then every once in a while I'll read Quill & Quire, UTNE Reader, and New Internationalist, among others), but I'll read just about any book (which is odd, since the time commitment for a book is much greater than for a magazine. And yes, I do continue to read books that I am not enjoying, probably because I hope that it will improve. It's rare that I actually give up on a book).

I have a list of books I'd like to read, and it's all over the map. Because my list is so long, I definitely have to go to the library for most of them (there are certain authors, however, that I do buy the book for, since I end up reading the books quite often). The only trouble with the library is that I do end up picking up random books that look interesting, so my list of books I want to read never really gets much shorter!

I am currently in the middle of a YA series, thanks to lagustar lending me the books. It's the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. I've read the first two, and will start the third one shortly. They're pretty entertaining, although it took me a while to get into the first one (15 chapters, actually). I find that it's pretty hard for books about vampires to avoid being cheesey, but these aren't too bad in that way.

Next up, I'll read Everything is Illuminated, which was also lent to me by lagustar. I've been wanting to read it for a while, so it'll be nice to finally do that.

Also, I'd like to read Lock And Key by Sarah Dessen when it comes out on Tuesday, but her books have a way of making me bawl my eyes out, which would not be good at work. (I did read part of Just Listen on the bus ride to my other job a few weeks ago, even though I knew I was likely getting close to the place that would make me cry. And I totally did. At least it was sunny and I could hide the tears behind my sunglasses. And thankfully I didn't bawl, just leaked a little.) She is one of the authors I have to own books by, as I read them often. (I tend to do that with YA books. Why am I not a children's librarian?)

After that, I think I may need a non-fiction spree. I could attempt to keep going on Naomi Klien's The Shock Doctrine, but I have a hardcover copy, and if I don't have to drag it around with me, I'd prefer not to. Plus, I spent an awful lot of time swearing at the first chapter, because I found it so disturbing. Again, not the best thing to be doing on the job (but apparently it was okay to do so at a curling rink, which is where I was when I started reading it. But I was the only one watching, so it's not like anyone heard me). I'd really like to read The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists, or Rock On: An Office Power Ballad. I shall have to see if my local library has them. (And I should check if I can reserve things online. I doubt it, though. Or I can be bad, and use my Toronto Library card. I'd have to find the nearest library to my work besides the TRL, I'm guessing.) (Huh. I just realized that an awful lot of the non-fiction I read has to do with music, and especially punk music.)

And because I'm curious, my list of books I want to read currently consists of 45 books, of which at least 3 are not yet released. 11 are non-fiction. The rest are fiction, and a whack of those are YA books. That is a much shorter list than the list of movies I want to see. That is potentially sad.

Next substantial post: what I am planning to grow in my garden (thanks to starfishchick for that suggestion! I am always open to suggestions of stuff to write about, should you feel the urge to suggest/ask.)

I just won a book!

I like books.

It's book drive season again!

Pamela Ribon has teamed up with David Coles to get people to donate books to libraries in Mississippi that were hit by Hurricane Katrina. (The books! The poor books. The pictures are so distressing to me.) If you can, please donate some books. I'll be doing so in the next little while.

I spent a lot of time in libraries when I was younger, and I've started using the TPL a lot more recently (for which I can thank le Cam, TPL children's librarian extrodinaire!), so these book drives always get me. And the karma -it's true! I am one of the people who got a promotion after donating! AND I won a book from Pamie that year, too. So just think of the possibilities for you!

The new Rainer Maria album cranked up loud + mini eggs + the newest book in my YA guilty pleasure series = AWESOMENESS!

And how can one word mean another and why am I staying up alone in the dark?

I hope you all have a great weekend!

And holy crap am I excited for the r|m show next month (even if it is on a Monday night - wtf?); it's amazing how often their songs fill me up with emotions so much that I feel the need to cry, and not always because they're sad emotions.

I didn't feel like leaving the house today, so I spent the day cleaning, listening to music (and wishing I was in a band), and watching Corner Gas while knitting a scarf for my sister's husband (he finally got his visa! And will be here Nov. 8. I finally get to meet my sister's husband after over two years of waiting!). My apartment is so much cleaner than before (although I still have to do the top of my dresser. Maybe I'll get to that this evening)! It's quite exciting. And I have a huge pile of stuff to take to a thrift store.

So, no Canzine for me. I did, however, discover a gift card for a bookstore that I didn't realize I'd gotten for Christmas last year. Also exciting! It was taped to the bottom of the wrapping of the present I got, and I didn't notice it until today, when I was tidying my pile o' wrapping, gift bags, and boxes. So sometime this week, I will buy more books! I just have no idea when I'll find the time to read them all, as I still have pretty much every book from my birthday still to read.