I got out of my reading funk! Hooray!
And then my little world was flipped onto its top. Life has taken a strange turn, strange indeed.
I don't think anyone actually reads my blog (I don't blame anyone, it isn't very interesting nor do I post regularly - i swear this is not a pity party about my lack of readers), but I ask anyone who does, anyone at all, one simple request. Never apologize for your independence. Never feel bad because you are independent. Never feel guilty because you can stand on your own two feet and keep fighting.
(enter Beyonce song here. Or Adele. She's all over the place lately.)
Once my life gets a little bit more settled and I don't feel like I am walking under water, I will read more. and then I'll post about it. Hell, maybe I will post an actual book review or something.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
In a funk...
This bookworm has been hibernating.
I was supposed to read The Tiger's Wife for my book club and I didn't. Well, I cracked it open and read the first 100 pages, but just couldn't get into it.
I read/finished quite a few books last month (Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern; The House of Velvet & Glass by Katherine Howe; Employee of the Month and Other Big Deals by Mary Jo Pehl; I Suck At Girls by Justin Halpern; The Likeness by Tana French; and 1 Dead In Attic by Chris Rose) and this month I have just been in a lull.
I was also supposed to do a Read-a-Thon starting this week and just didn't.
I tried to read! I got all comfy in my chair outside in the shade. I stacked up my pillows on the couch. I thought about buying a frou-frou coffee drink and going to the library. But again, the lull!
But it isn't all for naught! I'm 3 books ahead on my GOODREADS CHALLENGE for the year! (I recognize this does not give me the ability to slack! Better to be ahead!)
I was supposed to read The Tiger's Wife for my book club and I didn't. Well, I cracked it open and read the first 100 pages, but just couldn't get into it.
I read/finished quite a few books last month (Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern; The House of Velvet & Glass by Katherine Howe; Employee of the Month and Other Big Deals by Mary Jo Pehl; I Suck At Girls by Justin Halpern; The Likeness by Tana French; and 1 Dead In Attic by Chris Rose) and this month I have just been in a lull.
I was also supposed to do a Read-a-Thon starting this week and just didn't.
I tried to read! I got all comfy in my chair outside in the shade. I stacked up my pillows on the couch. I thought about buying a frou-frou coffee drink and going to the library. But again, the lull!
But it isn't all for naught! I'm 3 books ahead on my GOODREADS CHALLENGE for the year! (I recognize this does not give me the ability to slack! Better to be ahead!)
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
I'm a reader.
One look at my blog and you know I'm a reader.
One look at my pinterest and you know I'm a reader who likes batman and easy crafts for my house and really wants to travel more.
One look at my instagram and you know I'm a reader who shamelessly takes pictures of my dogs and cat (seldom myself) and loves antiques.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Whew!
It is definitely summer-time here in the Midwest. I've been spending a lot of reading time outside enjoying the sunshine (and the shade!)
I just finished my 18th book for this year (to follow what I've been reading as the year goes on, you can go here: EVERYTHING I'VE READ SO FAR. I can honestly say I haven't read anything and been super duper in love with it yet. 22 more books to go! That's 22 more chances for my socks to be wow-ed off. Good luck, books.
Luckily for me, I have a list a mile long of things I want to read this summer:
And I just bought this for my kindle, which is going to be what I start tonight after bookclub (or before my lunch date)
I'm hoping to love them!
It is definitely summer-time here in the Midwest. I've been spending a lot of reading time outside enjoying the sunshine (and the shade!)
I just finished my 18th book for this year (to follow what I've been reading as the year goes on, you can go here: EVERYTHING I'VE READ SO FAR. I can honestly say I haven't read anything and been super duper in love with it yet. 22 more books to go! That's 22 more chances for my socks to be wow-ed off. Good luck, books.
Luckily for me, I have a list a mile long of things I want to read this summer:
And I just bought this for my kindle, which is going to be what I start tonight after bookclub (or before my lunch date)
I'm hoping to love them!
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Read-a-thon
I've never done a read-a-thon before!
Believe it or not, I am new to the whole blogging thing. (As you can tell, from all of the empty seats in the audience.)
I'm enjoying reading - I'm definitely enjoying participating in the Mixing it Up Challenge over at http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.com/ It's encouraged me to read outside of my regular reading zones and even helped me get un-lazy with my Sookie Stackhouse series that's been gathering some dust. Book club has chosen some books I would NEVER choose on my own accord.
Plus, the dates of this read-a-thon (July 9-11) falls during the week, which is when I'm off work, so I will actually get some reading done!
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Light and fluffy
Lately, my favorite place to read has been outside on our back patio in our anti-gravity chair enjoying the sunshine.
I take breaks from reading every chapter or so to look at the clouds and laugh at something awesome my dogs are doing. Today, Scout was lounging in the grass and a fly was pestering him. Everyone few seconds he would chomp at this near-invisible pest. Adorable.
I'm getting closer to being on-target with my reading goal of 40 books this year. Right now I'm on #15. I decided to go with something light and fluffy - #7 of the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris, All Together Dead. I started reading the series in November 2009 (can I take a second to mention how much i LOVE goodreads? I love that I can find out when I read a book!) and gave up on it in August 2010 (seriously. Goodreads is amazing) when witches and more fantasy-land creatures came crawling from the pages. That was right around when HBO's True Blood season was over and I got rid of cable completely. I pretty well lost interest in it, even though I own book 1-9. 7, 8, and 9 have been sitting on my shelf - Quietly waiting for me to need to indulge in some guilty pleasure reading.
Enter summer of 2012! I've read some heavy topics lately: Ethiopian twin doctors trying to make sense of their childhoods during wartime (death count 15+) after their nun mother dies during childbirth and their birth father disappears (Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese) and a memoir about a girl who loses her virginity at 14-years old and ends up being betrayed by the boy she "loved" at age 15. After I finished The Only Girl in the Car by Kathy Dobie I felt the urge to take a hot, hot shower.
So now I'm reading light and fluffy. The buttercream of my 2012 reading list - Sookie Stackhouse.
I take breaks from reading every chapter or so to look at the clouds and laugh at something awesome my dogs are doing. Today, Scout was lounging in the grass and a fly was pestering him. Everyone few seconds he would chomp at this near-invisible pest. Adorable.
I'm getting closer to being on-target with my reading goal of 40 books this year. Right now I'm on #15. I decided to go with something light and fluffy - #7 of the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris, All Together Dead. I started reading the series in November 2009 (can I take a second to mention how much i LOVE goodreads? I love that I can find out when I read a book!) and gave up on it in August 2010 (seriously. Goodreads is amazing) when witches and more fantasy-land creatures came crawling from the pages. That was right around when HBO's True Blood season was over and I got rid of cable completely. I pretty well lost interest in it, even though I own book 1-9. 7, 8, and 9 have been sitting on my shelf - Quietly waiting for me to need to indulge in some guilty pleasure reading.
Enter summer of 2012! I've read some heavy topics lately: Ethiopian twin doctors trying to make sense of their childhoods during wartime (death count 15+) after their nun mother dies during childbirth and their birth father disappears (Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese) and a memoir about a girl who loses her virginity at 14-years old and ends up being betrayed by the boy she "loved" at age 15. After I finished The Only Girl in the Car by Kathy Dobie I felt the urge to take a hot, hot shower.
So now I'm reading light and fluffy. The buttercream of my 2012 reading list - Sookie Stackhouse.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
the ABCs of this here bookworm
Age: 27
Bed size: queen.
Chores that you hate: All of them - if I had to pick just one, it would be laundry.
Dogs: I love them! and I have two: Scout Pants and Watson Bean, who frequent my instragram account frequently (racheleff)
Essential to start your day: Feeding my dogs happens before everything else or they go bonkers until it happens.
Favorite color: grey and purple
Gold or silver: silver
Height: 5'7
Instruments you play: I can't play any instruments. I used to play the flute (about 15 years ago)
Job title: Registered Nurse, ya'll
Kids: Ew no thanks. Some of my friends have kids and they are okay. I don't like kids enough to spend more than a few hours with many of them.
Live: what.
Mother's name: Brenda.
Nicknames: Rach, Rachem, Rachemface, Rachies, The Rachies, Mitch
Overnight hospital stays: I had to stay overnight a couple times as a kid (once for Scarlet Fever and once for pneumonia). Not too shabby.
Pet peeves: Right now, the pet peeve of the day is lack of assertiveness amongst my peers. Get your shit done, idiots.
Quote from a movie or TV show: "Bye, bye, Lil Sebastian."
Right or lefty: Right
Siblings: I have a full-sister and two-half brothers.
Time you wake up: If I am working - 0600. If I am off, usually 0800.
Underwear: Aerie from American Eagle. So comfortable!
Vegetable you hate: CELERY
What makes you run late: Usually the only time I am late is when either I can't get Cobra to come inside (which is often, I just stopped arguing with her about it) or when Devin makes me late (and we are only ever late to movies, usually only enough to miss previews)
X-rays you've had: teeth, spine, chest/lungs, right shoulder, right hip, right ankle (all at different times).
Yummy food you make: I make a mean asparagus risotto.
Zoo animal: Camels and giraffes. I like the long necks.
Bed size: queen.
Chores that you hate: All of them - if I had to pick just one, it would be laundry.
Dogs: I love them! and I have two: Scout Pants and Watson Bean, who frequent my instragram account frequently (racheleff)
Essential to start your day: Feeding my dogs happens before everything else or they go bonkers until it happens.
Favorite color: grey and purple
Gold or silver: silver
Height: 5'7
Instruments you play: I can't play any instruments. I used to play the flute (about 15 years ago)
Job title: Registered Nurse, ya'll
Kids: Ew no thanks. Some of my friends have kids and they are okay. I don't like kids enough to spend more than a few hours with many of them.
Live: what.
Mother's name: Brenda.
Nicknames: Rach, Rachem, Rachemface, Rachies, The Rachies, Mitch
Overnight hospital stays: I had to stay overnight a couple times as a kid (once for Scarlet Fever and once for pneumonia). Not too shabby.
Pet peeves: Right now, the pet peeve of the day is lack of assertiveness amongst my peers. Get your shit done, idiots.
Quote from a movie or TV show: "Bye, bye, Lil Sebastian."
Right or lefty: Right
Siblings: I have a full-sister and two-half brothers.
Time you wake up: If I am working - 0600. If I am off, usually 0800.
Underwear: Aerie from American Eagle. So comfortable!
Vegetable you hate: CELERY
What makes you run late: Usually the only time I am late is when either I can't get Cobra to come inside (which is often, I just stopped arguing with her about it) or when Devin makes me late (and we are only ever late to movies, usually only enough to miss previews)
X-rays you've had: teeth, spine, chest/lungs, right shoulder, right hip, right ankle (all at different times).
Yummy food you make: I make a mean asparagus risotto.
Zoo animal: Camels and giraffes. I like the long necks.
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