Tuesday, December 8, 2009
More Books Read
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Long Over-Due 50 Book Challenge Update
2. Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris
3. Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
4. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover (for my Criminal Justice Class)
5. Courtroom 302 by Steve Bogira (for my Criminal Justice Class)
6. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
7. Stolen by Kelley Armstrong
8. Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong
9. Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong
10. Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
11. Broken by Kelley Armstrong
12. Vanquished by Hope Tarr
13. No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong (NEW)
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Update to 50 Challenge
I finished the book I was on (on 1 or 2 July 2009), so I figured I might as well update my 50 Book Challenge progress!
Broken by Kelley Armstrong was AWESOME!!! Could not wait to get to this book, and it was well worth the wait (especially the very ending! Squeeee!).
On the 1st of July, I did a bad thing, and went to library. Well, not as bad as going to the bookstore... So, I start looking through their new arrivals section, and stumble across two book series. One caught my eye because on the cover, it has a review blurb by none-other than Kelley Armstrong!!! I'm thinking, if she reviewed the book and said it was good...it must be good!
The book is titled: A Drop of Red (written by Chris Marie Green), and it's the fourth of six (at least that's the plan) in a series called Vampire Babylon. The books, in order are: Night Rising, Midnight Reign, Break of Dawn, and A Drop of Red. I'd like to get at least 50 pages into the first one by Saturday.
The other series I found, is a new genre to me, and not one that I have ever though of trying: historical romance. Yeah, that's what I thought too... The blurb on the back sounded interesting, and the fact that it was the third in a trilogy, and I like continuity, figured that I could give it a try. The author is Hope Tarr, a romance author apparently growing in popularity. Her series is set in Victorian London, England, a fave setting of mine, and I guess that's why I'd figured I'd try it. The three books are: Vanquished, Enslaved, and Untamed.
I got through the first book right quick after I finished Broken (on Friday or Saturday, I think). The second book is a bit slower for me to get into, but all in all, they're pretty quick reads. I'm hoping to get the last two books read by the end of the week, Saturday.
Oh, and today, since I was having a bit of time getting into the second Hope Tarr book, I started on the 7th Women of the Otherworld (Kelley Armstrong) book. It's back to hardcover with this one, so it'll take me longer to read the same amount of pages as in the previous 4 paperbacks. I'm hoping to get at least to p. 100 by Saturday.
The number of books, I'm checking out from the library, oi...at least I'm saving LOTS of money! On the note of checking books out... I've been reading the 50 Book Challenge Thread, and looking for ideas to add to my To Read List (as if I NEED any more....) and I found a book series based the on the TV show Monk. The show is cute, so I figure the books'll be quick mystery-type reads, peppered with the usual Monk craziness. I put the first 4 or so on hold at the library, and I'm waiting for them all to come in. I like to check books out in batches, that way it's easier for me to keep track of the due dates. And if I check out a few in a series, I don't have to run to the library, fervently searching for the next one, as soon as I'm done with one.
Okay, let me put up "The List", including my in-progress ones:
1. Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
2. Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris
3. Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
4. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover (for my Criminal Justice Class)
5. Courtroom 302 by Steve Bogira (for my Criminal Justice Class)
6. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
7. Stolen by Kelley Armstrong
8. Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong
9. Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong
10. Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
11. Broken by Kelley Armstrong
12. Vanquished by Hope Tarr
13. Enslaved by Hope Tarr (in progress)
14. No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong (in progress)
So the updated count: 12/50!!!
I'm moving right along in my reading. I may make it all the to way to 50 before the year is done after all!
GOALS FOR THE WEEK:
- Finish Enslaved by Sat 11 July
- Read Untamed by Sat 11 July
- Read at least to p. 100 in No Humans Involved
- Start and read at least to p. 50 in Night Rising
Looks like some of the books I had planned for the summer will get pushed back a bit, but the summer is still FAR from finished, so I may get even more reading done than I'd planned. I'll check back in by next weekend!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Miscount!
Now, counting...again! First photo: 10 Soft Navy, 10 Light Raspberry, and 10 Claret Fleck; for a total of 30! Second photo: 45 Soft White, and 30 Claret; for a total of 75! Third photo: 45 Soft White; for a total of 45. So: 30 plus 75 plus 45 equals...150!
UPDATE: I just checked my last post. I had all the photo totals correct. It's just when I went up add everything up, I didn't count right. Well, I guess I should know better than to do arithmatic after midnight...on Prednisone.... Oh...look at the time! It's past midnight...I'll never learn...
Monday, June 29, 2009
Square Update & First Two Rows Whipstitched
- Soft White - 90/336
- Soft Navy - 10/192
- Light Raspberry - 10/144
- Claret Fleck - 40/48
- Soft White & Light Rasp. - 0/48
- Soft White & Claret Fleck - 0/48
- Light Rasp. & Claret Fleck - 0/48
Sunday, June 28, 2009
50 Book Challenge
The only problem with me participating, is that I'm starting in late June, about halfway through the year. I'll try and see if I can remember the books I've read since January, I'm sure I'll be able to remember a bunch.
With no further ado, here is my list.
1. Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
2. Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris
3. Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
4. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover (for my Criminal Justice Class)
5. Courtroom 302 by Steve Bogira (for my Criminal Justice Class)
6. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
7. Stolen by Kelley Armstrong
8. Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong
9. Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong
10. Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
11. Broken by Kelley Armstrong (in progress)
Most of this list, I read after the semester was over, starting apporimately mid-May. As you can see, I like series, and I'm reading through Kelley Armstrong right now. There are 4 more books in her Otherworld series that have already been published (Frostbitten coming out in October), and two (of 3?) book published in her Darkest Powers YA series.
So, I've got 6 more Kelley Armstrong books on the to-read list. Then I'll probably go back to the Harper Conelly books (The first two in the list), then I'll either do more Patricia Briggs, Karen Chance, or the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris (the books that the TV series True Blood is based on). At least that's the tentative plan for the summer.
So, counting the books I've read so far...I've got 10/50!
I'll keep updating this list, adding books as I finish them. I'm hoping to get through the rest of the Kelley Armstrong books by the end of July, and possibly simultaneously get started on The Host by Stephanie Meyer, and get started on re-reading Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (with the movie out and all).
That's all for now, will update, when there's something to update!
My Lovely Saturday Evening!
I spend the evening in the ER, as my symptoms got more severe the previous night and this past morning and early afternoon. After quick consultation with my GI doc, he recommended that I go to the ER for IV steroids, IV fluids to alleviate my dehydration, some blood work, and some tests (x-ray, etc). We got to the hospital by 5 pm earlier today, and I was discharged a little after 11pm.
Along with all the fluids, and steroids, they found I had low potassium, so they gave me a potassium drip (not something fun...it burns....).
The good news, is other than all the other stuff I've got wrong with me...lol...they didn't find anything drastically bad that I had to be admitted or even left for observation overnight, and I left feeling even better that I had felt the previous day. The sucky news is, I'm done with the Entocort EC (steroid) that I had been taking for the past 2 weeks, and now I'm on Prednisone, a pretty strong steroid.
At least I'm going in for an app't with my GI doc on Tuesday morning, so he'll see if he wants me to stay on the Prednisone or not. Plus I have felt a lot better ever since they gave me that first IV infusion of steroids when I got to the ER.
We'll see tomorrow how I feel, and hopefully I'll be able to do both an update on the crocheting I've done recently, and get some more crocheting done (didn't have a chance to do any today).
Good night!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
More Squares
Again, each stack is 10 squares. From left to right, 10 soft navy, 10 light raspberry, and 10 claret fleck. Total from last time: 30 squares.
Total from this time: 75 squares. Grand total: 105 squares!
Plans for the week. I hope to get at least 30 more squares done by Friday, or an ideal total of 55.
UPDATE: I edited this post to add photos the next day. Wednesday night, I got a total of 20 squares done in the soft white. Bringing my total up to....125! Next time I'll post how many I need of each color for the finished product!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
First Photos
So here goes (in order of which I've done the most work on):
Purple Pinwheels Crochet Quilt:
I'm using Red Heart worsted weight yarn in soft white, soft navy, light raspberry, and claret fleck. (clockwise, starting with the biggest!)
I had a chance to take a few photos Monday evening (or was it Sunday evening?) showing my progress with the squares. At that point I had gotten 10 done in three of the colors. When I first started out, I wasn't weaving in my ends as I went, and that proved to be more work later. To sit down and weave in 20-some ends in tiny little granny squares is definitely a challenge. The good news is, that later in the week, I came up with an easier way to do it, and started weaving in my ends as I go. That way, though my "square per hour" productivity has decreased a bit, when I'm finished with a square, I'm finished with a square. So, here are my first stacks of squares.
Okay, here's the story about this bad boy: It was late, I was tired. I was doing something else while crocheting. Either watching TV, or reading the Crochetville forums. I get to the end of the round, slip stitch it together, pull up a loop and cut it.... All is well and good with that, except that the design calls for TWO rounds.
Here's a photo of how the finished throw will look:
Hopefully the photo is good enough that you can see the design. Now, for the yarn that I bought for it:
Well, that's all for now. I have a pattern (for an afghan) that I've had for a few years that I've found recently, and I'd like to make it. But I still need 5 skeins, so I can't really get started on it. I just realized that I never took photos to post info about it. Hopefully next time, I'll photos for that.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Start of Crocheting & Start to My Blog
I've also joined crochetville. Which, for now, will probably be the only place I'll be posting the link to this. The folks on CV love to see photos, so hopefully, I can figure out how to get the suckers on here.
I had the chance to go yarn and hook shopping on Friday, and last night, finally got a start on one of my planned projects. Details about all my projects to follow. Just wanted to get my blog started, and put up a first post.
That's all for now. I need to take some photos and do some crocheting!!!
Cheers!