{"id":248,"date":"2006-08-14T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=248"},"modified":"2006-08-14T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T03:19:00","slug":"books-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2006\/08\/14\/books-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Books everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Blogger’s beta testing a shiny update according to Blogger Buzz<\/a>. Man it’s like Christmas for geeks! Categories! New templates! Comment Feeds oh my! They’re rolling it out slowly to only certain blogs and it doesn’t look like I get to be one of them, damnit. I want new toys!<\/p>\n

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Speaking of Christmas… Every day (well every day that the mail comes) has been like Christmas for me. I finally decided what to spend the last of my Amazon bday gift card on: A bunch of books. I’ve been inspired by Charlotte’s living room filled with books. I have a lot of books myself, and they’re scattered everywhere. And I’ve read 95% of them. Some, several times. So between the drooling over C’s living room and the need for new reading material, I went a little nuts on Amazon. <\/p>\n

Here’s what I bought:
Crime & Punishment
Jon Stewart’s ‘America: A Citizen’s guide’
Catcher in the Rye
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Buffalo Girls – McMurtry
Undaunted Courage – Ambrose. A Lewis and Clark book.
Ireland – Frank Delaney
The Great Gatsby<\/p>\n

A. I’m trying to read some “classic” literature. I never read much of the classics in school. At least, not the usual stuff. And I’ve never bothered as an adult. Which I think is shameful.
B. I’m still on a Montana high \ud83d\ude42 I’m interested in reading more about the L&C expedition.<\/p>\n

So yay, I’m well on my way to my own comfy living room filled with lovely lovely books. They’ve all mostly arrived, I’ve got plenty to read (I do not like being without a book going) and I’m chuffed. <\/p>\n

I actually had a lot more books on that list as I happily sifted through the new & used ‘bin.’ I was buying books left and right for 50 cents, $1.35, $2.99. It was awesome. <\/p>\n

Until I hit the checkout button and was hit with a HUGE shipping and handling cost. Let’s just say the S&H was nearly twice the actual cost of all the books. Eep! So I reluctantly had to put some away. It was sad.<\/p>\n

So I’m off now. I’m in the middle of Ireland \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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