this little life of mine: 2011 October Resolutions

February 2012

Reading

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Veronica Roth: Divergent
2/22/12: Finished. LOVED this book! Loved the world-building, loved the main character - loved ALL the characters, actually, which made the ending pretty hard - loved the whole concept and everything! Granted I didn't love it as much as The Hunger Games to which it is being compared, but it's good - really good! And, yes, if you enjoyed The Hunger Games, I believe you will enjoy Divergent.
2/14: Started. (****)
Beth Revis: A Million Suns
2/23/12: Just finished Divergent and am returning to the spaceship Godspeed which is hurtling through space on its way to a new planet! Or IS it???
2/14: On hold (but really enjoying it so far!).
2/8: Started. I loved Across the Universe and have been very excited to start the second book in the series!
Lisa T. Bergren: Waterfall: A Novel (River of Time Series)
2/7: Finsihed. A very good little time-travel romance. I almost set it aside, because it was so obviously a romance and I really don't like those - at least not the traditional ones where the guy just falls in love with the girl immediately and simply canNOT live without her; I read the heck out of that genre back in the 90s - but this had some pretty interesting characters and situations and I'm actually contemplating reading the other two books in the trilogy just to see what happens to the sisters!
1/31: Started. Here's yet another book for the Off The Shelf challenge this year. I might actually accomplish this one! (***)
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
1/30: Finished. It's been a while since I've read a collection of short stories, so I was a little apprehensive about reading this book. However, once I got into the stories, I loved every minute of it. The stories are strange and creepy and weird and wonderful! Some of them I got from the beginning, and others really surprised me. This writer has a great imagination!
1/25: Started. This is another one for the Off the Shelf Challenge. (***)
Larry Watson: Montana 1948: A Novel
1/24: Finished. Wow, what a quick read, but so good, too. One of those brief moment of time stories, a short summer in the life of one family. Kinda like Dandelion Wine, but while this guy's a good writer, but he's no Ray Bradberry.
1/23: Started. An actual book this time, not on my nook! (Amazing how much lighter my purse is now!) (***)

2012 Reading Challenges

"Fun size" level = 20 books
1. Bumped by Megan McCafferty
2. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
3. Waterfall by Lisa T. Bergren
~~1. Cinder~~ ~~by Marissa Meyer~~
2. Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
3. Above by Leah Bobet
4. Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
5. Storybound by Marissa Burt
6. The Cabinet of Earths by Anne Nesbet
7. The Vanishing Game by Kate Kae Myers
8. Unbound by Emily Goodwin
9. Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown
10. May B. by Caroline Starr Rose
11. The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Frances Long
12. Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Tempted level = 5 books (+1 more I really want to get off my shelf!)

~~1. Montana 1948~~ ~~by Larry Watson~~
2. Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques
3. 5th Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson
4. ~~There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby - Scary Fairy Tales~~ ~~by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya~~
5. Waterfall by Lisa T. Bergren
*Bonus* 6. Hunter Brown and the Consuming Fire by The Miller Brothers

October 04, 2011

October Resolutions

It's been a VERY long time since I've posted monthly resolutions (as inspired by Kim), but this month I'm going to try them again. I'm ready, I think, for some positive changes.

Put stuff back on eBay. I haven't tried selling anything for a long time, and I still have that dang faux fur I'm trying to get rid of!
Organize the closets. Most of what I get rid of will probably end up on eBay. I tend to buy cute, nice things and then never have the guts to wear them in public.
Eat clean and work out. I gained probably 20lbs in September due to all the stress and sadness but now that my head's pretty much together, I need to get back on track.
Work on outline for NaNoWriMo novel. I'll be using some tips I got from the recent Writers' Conference to help me get the book written this year and frankly I'm really looking forward to it.
Do more fun things and break out of our dull routine. While there is a TON of yardwork/housework/nit-picky things to do, my mom and I have vowed we will have more fun! Go to the beach, eat dinner out in the middle of the week, go to wine tastings, art festivals, anything that gets us out of the house, breaks our routine and is fun!