October 8, 2007
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Happy Birthday, LibbyK!
Today LibbyK turned 13. She is now a legal Xangan. Woo! She got the usual complement of presents for a 13 year old–clothes, earrings, clothes, earrings, and clothes. I don’t think it was her best birthday ever in terms of thrill and excitement, but it wasn’t so bad, I hope. Mel and JAndrews (hee hee) gave her presents, which also brightened up the day. (And IcePrincess already gave her some!)
We met TGD on campus and had dinner and her birthday cake. Guess who forgot to bring the camera?
I had a cold thing going on all day–nose like a garden hose, body which ached, and sleepiness. After a diet Pepsi tonight, I feel pretty perky, which is a bad thing, as I should be sleeping for speedy healing.
I have a whole pile of Tristan and Isolde books to read and Le Morte D’Arthur. (It’s fun to say D’Arthur. Darthur. Darthur. Darthur. Enough.) That’s a hefty volume, that Malory. It’s a collection of many stories, but I feel like I’d be cheating to just read the Tristan ones. When I get a book, I feel compelled to read the whole thing, else I can’t write it in my book log. So, I usually slog through the whole thing–dull, exciting, or useless.
Do you keep a book log? Do you feel compelled to finish a book once you’ve started?
Comments (26)
Yes. Yes. To both the book log and the finish line. Guess we are made from the same mold!
Ah, shucks, I was hoping to be first this time! Oh, well. Unfortunately for me, if I kept a book log, I would be able to do so on a small Post-it-Note! But I do feel compelled to finish a book once I start it – but I usually choose books very carefully before starting them.
Hope you feel better soon!
Not since high-school. And as far as I’m concerned, life is too short to be bothered finishing unworthy books.
I usually do finish books, but there have been occasional volumes that I just felt weren’t worth spending the time. As it is, I now start so many books that I can allegedly be reading a book for a very long time, but in actuality, I’ve skipped over to something else–either because an Amazon.com order showed up, or I left one book upstairs and I’m downstairs….But then sometimes when I get back to those books, I feel compelled to start over. I do keep a list now that I have a nice place to post them where they don’t get lost (on my Web site.)
I’m sorry you’re not feeling well. Our temperatures finally broke today after a rain shower, and our temp is now down to 67 degrees.
I keep a book log too! And I have been struggling lately with the legitimacy of adding a book to it that I haven’t finished. In fact, I’ve been considering starting a separate category on my book log for just that situation! I keep a pile of books by my bed, and when there’s a general dearth of good things to read, I sometimes go back to the ones I’ve only partially read and then complete them. (But I suppose if I’m being honest, I would admit that it doesn’t happen very often.)
Yay! Huzzah! Three cheers for Libbyk! Funtime! Hope your cold clears up…
I used to finish every book I started to read. I usually don’t finish boring books anymore. Life is too short.
You know….I don’t know how long I’ve done it. Certainly not in high school….maybe college, maybe the early years of marriage. Mine is just a list, no frills. I put it at the back of my journals, so it’s not centrally located. Someday I should pull ‘em all out and tally the list up! But, not in the near future…I’m on my 110th journal, and it’s only pages away from its finish line. That would be a lengthy project!
Happy Birthday to Libby K! I don’t keep a book log, but I used to feel compelled to finish any book I started, even if I set it aside and finished it later. Now that I am 50 I have given myself permission to ditch boring books, skip short stories in books that are not to my taste and stop DVDs that are dull. I don’t HAVE to finish them! I still feel a bit guilty, but I am sure this will pass. I don’t want to spend my time doing something I don’t have to do, and there is no one monitering my book reading/DVD habits. And even if they were, what are they going to do? Call the library police? ( The library police ARE scarey…I am sure they must exist…) You could write in your book log that you read whatever book, minus the parts you didn’t read. Partial credit.
I don’t remember if I already said this (because I’m a terrible person), but thanks so much for the prayer and tips regarding the SAT.
I used to keep a book log, but don’t really any more. I always feel compelled to finish the books I’ve started, unless they suddenly become incomprehensibly horrible about halfway through.
I used to keep a book log, but haven’t now for several years. I no longer feel that I have to finish a book. If it’s fiction and it doesn’t “grab” me within 3 or 4 chapters I put it down. If it’s instructional and I don’t care for the teaching style, the presentation, or the supporting citations I’ll look for a diferent one.
I have never kept a book log…but I can tell you if I have read a book by reading the back cover or the dust jacket. I guess I am just not a list maker. I wouldn’t finish a book unless I was interested in it. I only get to read for short periods of time so I wouldn’t waste the time on something I didn’t enjoy
RYC…I think we can be harder on our own children. Especially when they do something wrong the first time (like when we haven’t told them not to do it). Hope you feel better soon – get some rest!
Colleen
Your layout is looking good.
I have kept a book log ever since the beginning of high school. I record when I start a book and when I finish it, so if I don’t finish it at all, I simply take it off. It’s pretty rare that I don’t finish a book, though…
Happy bday to Libby!!!
I don’t keep a log of books that I’ve read. In the summer, when school is out, I might read 20+ books. Rarely do I not finish a book. It has to be pretty bad for me to quit a book.
♫Happy Birthday, dear LibbyK! ♫
There are shirts which say “Ithaca is Gorges”. Hehe, they remind me of you – especially the spin-offs:
- “Ithaca is Cold”
- “Ithaca is Gangsta”
- “Ithaca is (you name it – they’ll make a shirt for you!)
Hope you’re feeling ok!!
RYQ; Hmm, well for cool weather I tend to revert to things like pot roasts and grilled or roasted potatos. And there is always baked squash! I also found a really great desert recipe that I tried last spring for Pear Gingerbread Upsidedown cake that seems to fit in to the fall theme, and now that I’ve remembered it I am craving it badly, so I’ll probably make it this weekend! And always soups of course, I usualy don’t even use a recipe, I just throw I have in the refigerator in some stock, play with some herbs and seasonings, and let it simmer all day in the crock-pot.
Happy Birthday LibbyK!!! I’m not so good at keeping logs…I should…but don’t. I do however read through nearly every book I begin.
Happy Birthday, LibbyK!
Hope you’re feeling better.
RYC: Blogger Friend School is a fun way to get to know other bloggers. Here are some pages about it: http://www.traininghearts.com/blog//?page_id=61 and http://www.traininghearts.com/blog//?cat=9. I have links to my assignments in the left module on my xanga blog.
RYC: I believe the products in question are cell phones, and Mohammed really did have 13 wives, which I find rather unfair to all his followers who are expected to make due with only four.
But the point is that we’re discussing the face. Now, there’s nothing inherently wrong in a man’s admiring the beauty of a woman’s face or of her figure, so long as it does not go beyond an objective sort of admiration (assuming he’s not married to her). This sort of advertising ploy, however, is not aiming at inciting objective admiration but rather lust. And I think most would agree that there’s something wrong with a society that either fears (or hopes, as the designer of this billboard must have) that the mere sight of part of a pretty face will be enough to incite lust. In the same way, to adapt an illustration used by C.S. Lewis, that there would be something quite wrong with a society that thinks or hopes that the mere glimpse of a piece of barbecued chicken would be enough to set mouths watering in all directions. And then there’s the outstanding irony of such a sign in being found in a Muslim country, which technically ought to be doing everything it can to keep men from thinking about women not their wives in that way
A very happy Birthday to Miss Libby!
RYC-It is a duck egg with the developed fetus inside.
I don’t really have a dinner time. I do not eat early with the kids, because I am not usually hungry at 6 and I use that time clean the kitchen or fold laundry while they are occupied. I son’t usually eat with my husband, around 9 or 10, either because he doesn’t like it when he is home and I get up to make myself something instead of sitting by him and listening to him talk and I am often busy doing other things while I sit there. I am not much of a sitter and it is hard for me to just sit without doing soemthing else at the same time. My husband won’t let me read while he is awake, so I often wait to eat and read until 10 or 11. I kind of snack while I am cooking or on whatever is leftover after everyone is done or make myself something after everyone is asleep when I can eat and read in peace. So if I made chicken and potatoes and veg for him and pasta for them I’ll throw the leftover veg and potato into the left over pasta, add a couple things and make a whole new meal for me! Fun!
Oh my goodness! You keep a book log, how organized! Happy birthday to Libby, too.
Happy Belated birthday to Libby. And no, I do not keep a log book. I can’t even keep my dishes washed.. let alone log what I’m reading. LOL
RYC: thanks for the birthday greetings. I appreciate it!
RYC: No, they’re a two-days’ drive from us, but we’re going there for Thanksgiving.
I started to keep a book log once, but well, never kept up with it. And I don’t always finish books, but feel a huge sense of guilt about it.
Slummy Mummy is good so far. I like the writing. The premise is a little un-(idontknowtherightword) settling maybe. She has a “harmless” crush on this other dad at school and I’m not sure where it will go. Let’s just say – Good writing, bad values. I think I will finish this book – unless it gets really wraunchy.
HAPPY BIRFDAY, LIBBYK!! (Yes, we say “birfday” around here for some reason I can’t recall now……sorry I’m late!)
Get bettter, Teacher Girl! Yucky stuff is so….. yucky! (How profound!)
Compelled to finish?…..hmmmm… I feel very strongly to finish, but, the feeling doesn’t necessarily cause me to actually do it. It really has to be good for me to finish it, otherwise, I just get too bored!
No, I’ve never thought to keep a book log. And usually, I finish a book no matter what. Sometimes I find that even the dull ones have a few exciting moments. Once in a great while, I might put one down & forget to pick it back up again.