Tricky vs. Shifty

( The full list of books I read )

Totals
Fiction - 27
Non-Fiction - 8
Young Adult - 29
Overall Total = 64

Canadian Authors - 13 and a half (a book with two authors where one is Canadian)
Female Authors - 46
(This time I am not including YA in fiction/non-fiction counts)

Favourites
Fiction:
The Good Fairies of New York - Martin Millar
Punk rock fairies? Hell yeah! Very entertaining.
The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
An interesting look at the relationship between a teenager and her co-worker, who turns out to have gone to highschool with her mother.
The Line Painter - Claire Cameron
And I'm not just listing it because I won a copy. It really was interesting. A woman's partner dies, and she heads on a road trip up north, where her car breaks down. Creepiness and weirdness ensues.
The Scott Pilgrim graphic novels, 1-3 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Fun story, and it's neat recognizing places in the story, since they take place in Toronto. I really need to get #4.

Non-Fiction:
Television Without Pity: 752 Things We Love to Hate (and Hate to Love) About Television - Tara Ariano & Sarah Bunting
I love trivia, especially pop culture trivia, and this book offers way more than I'd ever need to know about television
On a Cold Road - Dave Bidini
A re-read, but I love it. Recounts touring adventures of Canadian bands.

Young Adult:
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn & David Leviathan
So good. She wrote Norah's POV, he wrote Nick's. I really enjoyed it (which is why I read it more than once).
Mosh Pit - Kristyn Dunnion
I love YA books about punk stuff, apparently. Plus, it's Canadian!

Apparently I read fewer books this year than last year (I read 78 in 2006). I hope to read more this year. And I hope to read more Fiction than YA next year (even if YA is totally one of my guilty pleasures).

Three things I think about on the bus, in between sleeping and daydreaming that I'm in whatever band I happen to be listening to at the time:

1) What it must be like to be in Against Me! right around now. A previously fairly successful indie punk band signing to a major record label and releasing their most pop-sounding and radio-played album. Did the whole band want to go in that direction, or is it all Tom? What changed their minds from before, when they used the people from major labels solely for free food and drinks (and they made a whole live DVD pretty much about that)? What are their shows like now - does the crowd still rush the stage, or is it toned down now that they've gone more mainstream (I missed their last local show at the beginning of October)? I'm so curious!

2) What would it be like to only state opinions formed from email forwards? If those were the only things you based your arguments and ideas on? "Microsoft will totally send you free Gap Jeans if you tell all your friends that you talked to me!" Or, "I'd wear lipstick if they weren't all full of lead."

3) I kind of like the dark on the ride home now, as it means I can definitely tell if the bus driver uses the turn signal when changing lanes so I don't have to worry quite as much that we'll smash into a car or tractor trailer.

Holy crap, I watched a lot of movies in 2006: 217!

Of those, 15 were seen in theatres, and 43 were TV on DVD seasons.

Damn.

Faves:
Veronica Mars Season 2
Little Miss Sunshine
Stranger Than Fiction
Twitch City (finally!)
and Severed: Forest of the Dead (I finally got to see the Canadian zombie movie!!)

Although there were a lot more that I enjoyed, those just stick out in my head.

I will try to watch less movies this year, because damn! That's a lot of sitting around, and I didn't knit or do other crafting, or pack for moving for a lot of that time, and that's a little sickening to think about.

Today I will:

eat breakfast (done!)
drive Scott to work (done before breakfast!)
apply for jobs
do the dishes (mostly done!)
fold my laundry (done!)
finish painting my bookshelf (done!)
get my Weekend to End Breast Cancer photos ordered (done!)
get Darlene's address so I can send her the photos when they're ready
take photos of the house so far-away people can see what it's like
try to organize stuff in the guest room
play with the cat so she doesn't go even crazier than she already is (done!)
brush the cat (done!)
read all my mail and get rid of the junk (done!)
call Nat and apologize for not calling for a week because I'm lazy
renew my health card (and if I can, find the form they sent me) (attempted. Foiled by ridiculous traffic.)
pick up Scott from work (done!)
surprise Scott with an early birthday present of going to see Cyndi Lauper! (DONE! SO FUN!)

Today, I:

...am wearing almost the exact same thing as I wore on June 1, except with cuter socks, and without the scarf in my hair. And different unders.

...get to go to the island this afternoon! I haven't been to Ward's Island before (Centre Island, yes, and I'm sure we would have walked over to Ward's Island if my grandmother had been in better shape, but she wasn't so we didn't), so it's exciting. And I like ferry rides.

...am happy that it's sunny out. But I wouldn't mind if there were thunderstorms this afternoon/evening, because I like those, too.

...don't know what I'm going to eat for my lunch. And perhaps I should actually eat the breakfast bar I brought with me to eat for breakfast.

...am ignoring half of what the annoying co-worker says.

...get to leave the office early, so annoying co-worker will only bug me for a short amount of time!

...am happy that I don't work here on Fridays.

Well, the tally from when I started keeping track in March.

I read a total of 47 books. (That makes me sad. I want to read more! Stupid work, making me stay late and taking away from my reading time! Or the fact that I watched a hell of a lot of movies could account for some of this.)

Fiction: 42 (38 novels, 2 short stories, 2 graphic novels/heavily illustrated)
Non-Fiction: 5 (1 on punk music, 1 on Kevin Smith, 1 on feminism, 1 on baseball, 1 on hiking the Appalachian trail)
Books by women: 34
Books by men: 11
Books by Canadians: 8 (at least. There's a couple more that I think may be Canadian)

Favourite Fiction: Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me, Geek Love, Telling Tales

Favourite Non-Fiction: Fury's Hour: a (sort of) punk manifesto

I definitely need to read more in 2006!