Trimming

I am doing some flist trimming again.  Just removing some people I find myself skimming, and who I never interact with.

Note to self

Damn well get your writing area set up again, because it seems that you cannot focus any more when you're not in a place dedicated to writing.

Unfortunately, this means that I need to do a lot of tidying and sorting.  And probably need to buy at least one more bookcase, since my books overflow at the moment, despite some culling.  Ideally, a new desk would be nice, too.

30 days of books: Day Five

Day 05 – A book or series you hate

This is actually really hard, mostly because I don’t read books that I hate.  There are plenty of subjects that don’t interest me, and which I’m sure that I’d hate books about, but I just don’t read them.

There are certainly some books that I don’t hold in high regard for whatever reason, some of which I still read as guilty pleasures.

The closest I’m going to get to an answer here is anything by Dickens.  Who, to be fair, I only read in high school as part of English class.  And hated.  This could reflect on the teachers I had at the time, but I also got to read a lot of great stuff – like Fowles’ The Collector and The Great Gatsby.  Maybe I should have a go at Dickens again and see how I go.

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Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

30 days of books: Day Five

Day 05 – A book or series you hate

This is actually really hard, mostly because I don’t read books that I hate.  There are plenty of subjects that don’t interest me, and which I’m sure that I’d hate books about, but I just don’t read them.

There are certainly some books that I don’t hold in high regard for whatever reason, some of which I still read as guilty pleasures.

The closest I’m going to get to an answer here is anything by Dickens.  Who, to be fair, I only read in high school as part of English class.  And hated.  This could reflect on the teachers I had at the time, but I also got to read a lot of great stuff – like Fowles’ The Collector and The Great Gatsby.  Maybe I should have a go at Dickens again and see how I go.

( Read the rest of this entry » )

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.