Po(sey) Sessions

I have not made much reading progress over the past week. I have been jumping from book to book working on various research projects and chasing quotes. I managed to finish one more book for my yearly total. 14. Liar and Spy - Rebecca Stead Another great middle grade selection by Stead. I loved it and I was worried it could not compare to When You Reach Me. I am happy I had a few years between the two titles so I was less inclined to compare them. Currently Reading: I am still working on Omnivore's Dilemma the most because it has been assigned for school. The Ultimate Gullah Cookbook - I read this for my Festival of Excellence presentation. I have hauled it across the county a few times with the hopes of reading it. I am shocked at how much my own knowledge has transformed the experience of reading it. I restarted it from the first page.  I realized that I am in the middle of a bunch of cookbooks and pushing through them might bolster up my reading numbers so far this ...

I want to tell you a story. Hi, my name is Megan. I am mildly willing to admit I may have a problem with books. Problem is probably not the best term for it. I have an obsession, a mania, a philia. Some might call it a Gentle Madness. In my home I have over 5,000 books. Books that I have never read. Waiting in piles for me to find time and energy for consumption. These piles around me used to be piles of guilt, but it was fairly recently that I discovered, even on the day I die, I want plenty of books to choose from. There is a certain sadness in thinking about only having one book left to enjoy in this mortal world. But these piles of books are not my story. Or not the story of today. Once, in my dark past, I used to be a person with lots of piles of books and a blog. These things were the entirety of my book passion. I was silent in my love for books until I was able to start describing them with poorly chosen sparse words. It was through my blog and twitter that I was able t...

This is my old reading list that I was working on last summer. I updated it by marking the books I have finished. I am sort of disappointed in myself to not keeping up with all the challenges I was looking forward to. But I started up reading again and finished many books, some on this list and some new ones. Now I have to make sure I finish all of these up. Though some I may be saving for another time. Reading in 2007 Out of the Silent Planet ( p. 44 146/160) 92% FINISHED! Alice's Adventures Underground ( p.68 p.76/90) 85% FINISHED! On My Honor (p. 90/90) FINISHED! ( Banned Books Challenge ) Crispin:The Cross of Lead (p. 262/262) FINISHED! ( Newbery Challenge ) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (p. 87/246) 35% FISHISHED! Slaughter-House Five (p. 4/215) 2% FINISHED! Scraps of the Untainted Sky (p.15/284) 5% Herland (p. 37/146) 25% Love in the Time of Cholera (p. 22/348) 6% Robinson Crusoe -reading electronically at chapter 9 ( By The Decade ) Beyond the Words ...