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Books and words.
May. 16th, 2012 08:18 amBook 8 of 2012: The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel by Stephen king.
I loved this book so much. So very much. King is such a good storyteller, and a story is exactly what this book was...
( Minor minor spoilers back here. )
I feel like I'm behind in my reading, though I have no real schedule*. I had been hitting two books per month, which was a nice pace, but I'd need to finish two more in the next two weeks to maintain that. Cruise is coming up, but unfortunately I'll likely have even less time than usual to read (which seems backwards...).
On words, now there's even more reason to like merriam-webster.com. They have comments enabled on all of their definition pages. "What made you want to look up [word]? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible)." It's so interesting to read!
Today the word "tupping" came up in RP. It's unusual for me to not know a word (happy day! New word!), I usually just look things up to find out the spelling. Look at the variety of comments on that word! So interesting. :)
* I started tracking the books I read because of the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
50bookchallenge comm. I knew I'd never get to 50 in a year, so I'm posting here instead of there. My goal was half that, 25 books in a year, which would mean basically two per month.
Edit: Oh hey, YAY! I just noticed my IC Twitter account crossed the 10,000 message (tweets/IC "pages") mark! Luckily the books are ICly magic, otherwise Thistle would get a backache lugging around a 10,000 page book. :D Here's to 10,000 more IC posts!
I loved this book so much. So very much. King is such a good storyteller, and a story is exactly what this book was...
( Minor minor spoilers back here. ) I feel like I'm behind in my reading, though I have no real schedule*. I had been hitting two books per month, which was a nice pace, but I'd need to finish two more in the next two weeks to maintain that. Cruise is coming up, but unfortunately I'll likely have even less time than usual to read (which seems backwards...).
On words, now there's even more reason to like merriam-webster.com. They have comments enabled on all of their definition pages. "What made you want to look up [word]? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible)." It's so interesting to read!
Today the word "tupping" came up in RP. It's unusual for me to not know a word (happy day! New word!), I usually just look things up to find out the spelling. Look at the variety of comments on that word! So interesting. :)
* I started tracking the books I read because of the
50bookchallenge comm. I knew I'd never get to 50 in a year, so I'm posting here instead of there. My goal was half that, 25 books in a year, which would mean basically two per month.Edit: Oh hey, YAY! I just noticed my IC Twitter account crossed the 10,000 message (tweets/IC "pages") mark! Luckily the books are ICly magic, otherwise Thistle would get a backache lugging around a 10,000 page book. :D Here's to 10,000 more IC posts!
