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Depressing! I love Cormac McCarthy though. Stardust is a fantastic book and has a pretty great movie attached to it. I'm a fairly big Gaiman fan. Really trying to reinvent the fairy tale with this, Neverwhere, American Gods, and Coraline. Coworker was raving about this one. I wasn't a *huge* hunger games fan. I felt like the book would have been 10x better if Peeta would have turned out been playing her the entire game (as they hinted towards his manipulative nature) and she ended up stabbing him to become the victor.

Trying for the second time to get through "American Gods". I got bored about 3/4ths of the way through and quit but everyone is urging me to finish.

"Casual Vacancy" by JK Rowling, "In the Garden of Beasts" by Larson, "Metamorphosis" by Kafka, and "The White People and other Weird stories" by various authors.

Softness is really important on scarves. The skin on the neck is extremely sensitive. I have a coat that I love to wear but the wool collar irritates me like crazy...I actually sewed in a lining to prevent it from tearing up my skin.

"Ender's Game" and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" I'm revisiting two old sci-fi series that I loved the first time I read. I plan on reading all seven Hitchhiker's this summer.

Anyone You Want Me to Be. Also, I'm finishing up Devil in the White City.

We were required to read that in grade school. It was a very disturbing book for how young we were.

That's on my reading list for the summer. I know, it's not your typically summer read (on many lists for most horrifying books of all time) but I left it with my boyfriend's house....whom I won't see until mid may.

Sigh....Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Read all of the series except for the last. I got halfway through and then got distracted. I don't really know why I stopped. Point is, I never finished and I need to before the next movie comes out.

Crazy. That one is also amazing but in a completely different way. It's like you switched from one mood to another. I absolutely love the calming yet "spiritual' (that's the vibe I'm getting) colours. Also, your brush strokes are so raw and scratchy. I love that a lot. When I draw, i have a ton of pencil marks all over the paper.

Those are good days. You should keep painting. See where your inspiration leads you!

Oh, wow. That is so cool looking. I would totally buy that off of you!

Awww, really? I have had it on my shelf since the day it came out but I'm too afraid that I'll dislike it. I loved Angels and Demons so much. Da vinci code was rather bad, in my opinion. I was hoping he'd go back to what he was doing with A&D but I guess not.

Neither did Charles Schulz. Art is weird in that you don't necessarily have to be very good to have a point of view that people go crazy for. I'd take one just for the heck of it.

Breakfast of Champions. It's probably the oldest copy of the book too. Geesh. This thing is falling apart!

I plan on rereading them all before the last movie comes out. It's so much fun! Those books are great and I can appreciate them as both an adult and a child.

Those are such fun images. And the colouring is just right. Not overwhelming, but, actually comforting, since they are the colours of my childhood. I would describe the first painting as "friendly". That's the word that comes to mind. The second one, I can't figure out what the black adds to it. It does make it feel different than the first one though...can't word it right.

Reading frenzy this weekend. I'm so happy that I felt so inspired as to read as much as I have. Haven't had this in years. I read "twilight, finished "the omnivores dilemma", "Brisingr", read half of "Freakonimcs", and got about 50 pages into "the prophet". I also made a list of all the books I own but haven't read. It's only 16 books (I'm counting the Narnia cronicles as one book and the hitchhikers guide as one book). I thought for sure it'd be in the 30's.

The hobbit was great because it was intended for children. Got to love the classic children's stories. They are just wonderful.

It's like Tolkein's writings. Made for children but appreciated by adults. Too bad I disliked them. So many people love his series.

I haven't even seen the movie! I just feel like I can appreciate them more now that I am older. I really grew up with those books. The characters were the same age as me and since a new book came out every year, and every book they got a year older, I really grew up with those kids.

Oh, okay. I thought twilight was the series' name. Like Lord of the rings... or inheritance. Really, Dune is the only other series I can think of that had the first book of the same name. I don't think that book was meant to be a series though.

"Omnivores Dilemma" The first twilight book, I forget the name (I figured I'd give it a try. But, I'm not telling my boyfriend) "Brisingr" "Harry Potter" (reading the whole series for a third time.....I don't know why) "Into Thin Air" I just can't focus on one book right now. And I'm about half way into all of them. I lose momentum in the middle, always in the middle....