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[aliseadae]

Today is an accomplished day! I've gotten some work done on my more long-term homework, gotten a good start on the homework due next set of classes (I only have classes on MWF), worked on some poems, read a little of Lieutenant Hornblower, and unpacked more of my suitcases that were leftover from after winter break. I've done all of this before eight! I'll have time this evening to relax with friends. Perhaps I shall continue to work on the character descriptions I've been making for the characters in one of my stories.

I'm excited for Carly's Adventure game! It will be my first campaign. Character generation is tomorrow!

A list of books lying around my room offered without explanation. Idea stolen from aamcnamara. Cut for length. What books are lying around your desk/room/whatever?

Fire and Hemlock
Fire Logic
The Silmarillion
1066 and All That
Tam Lin
War for the Oaks
Finder
Proven Guilty
Lieutenant Hornblower
Latinoamérica: Su civilizatión y cultura
The Dragon Waiting
The Archaeology of Wetlands
The Bronze Age
Empress of the World
Changing Planes
The Snow Queen
Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader
Interfictions 2
Lud-in-the-Mist
To Say Nothing of the Dog
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Technical Report 26
The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches
Ancient Mesopotamia
People of the Wetlands
Sumer and the Sumerians
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Heaven's Bones
Middle Egyptian Grammar

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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh well, if it was around my room I'd be sunk, because my grandpa's books are all over my office. Really really all over. Piles and piles.

On my desk, though, the list is almost the same as when I posted at aamcnamara's place, but slightly shorter.

[aliseadae]

See, I modified it because apparently my desk isn't as book-covered as other people's are. My room, on the other hand... And that isn't even including books on my bookshelf or some of the weird piles under my bed. I swear, the books in here breed or something.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

My desk was not always the source of my To Read piles, either. Until I got my grandpa's big old cherry-wood desk, and even for some time after, I had the piles in other convenient spots. But I find it comforting to have them here now. markgritter has a mess of a desk, and his fairly tidy To Read piles are on the top and the shelves of his nightstand. But I'm afraid if I did that, I'd finish a book and want another just when he was sleeping there in the dark and I couldn't get one without waking him. And anyway they make a very pleasant wall along the left side of my desk, the nonfiction in back and the fiction in the middle and the borrowed things in the front.

[aliseadae]

Oh man. I'm not organized at all when it comes to To Read piles. At least not here. Most of my piles are rather messy and in weird places all over my room. They are also not entirely To Read piles but rather "To Read, To Re-Read, and Already Read" piles. And I never get to everything. And somethings are textbooks or for papers or things I thought looked neat at the school or public library. I have a book problem. I bring far, far too many of them into my dorm room.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Every time you move into more space, this problem will improve briefly, and then reassert itself. I mean, there's some off chance it won't work that way for you, but I doubt it. But dorm rooms are the worst for it, because you have one room, or in many cases one half or one third of a room, and so you can't leave a book on the kitchen table or on the couch or whatever because you don't have those things, you just have your room.

We are going to relieve some of the book pressure when the basement is finished: we'll have two more rooms in which bookcases can live, so that should help for awhile. But I expect it won't help indefinitely.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

I have created a (tiny-scale, not-really-a-) meme!

My list is exactly the same as it was before, plus Parrotfish, Ash, and The Parable of the Sower.

[aliseadae]

Yeah, some of the books on my list were checked out of the school library today, such as a lot of the archaeology ones (though not all) and Sherlock Holmes.

Yay tiny memes!

[mlt23.livejournal.com]

If I was at home and not in my dorm, it would take me so long, because I have most of the books I own are on the walls. In alphabetical order.

I just read Changing Planes. I am attempting to rectify years of reading very little Ursula Le Guin by reading as much of possible.

Which of the archaeology books that you have do you recommend?

[aliseadae]

Um. I will tell you when I look over them further. A lot are for a paper but some of them are because I thought "oh, shiny!" when seeing their titles.

I think I'll read Changing Planes on the way to my grandparent's house when I'm traveling by, and changing, planes.

I didn't include my bookshelf in this list and wouldn't have if I were at home. There are far too many books either way.

[seabream.livejournal.com]

Good thing about the not being specific bit since I don't have a desk. This list is not of books in the room, since that is my major book depository. It's more books within arm's reach that haven't been put 'away' specifically somewhere. I'm also not including e-books and audio books since they're all the ones on my computer and the distinction between them in the state of 'put away' and 'lying around' is not simple to make. So yes, physical books that are just lying around.

Plan B 3.0
Fire
Fire
Zombie Raccoons and Killer Bunnies (for some reason I twice typed 'squirrels' instead of the correct animals)
The Trouble With Heroes
a Collins Gem French dictionary
A Couple of Kooks and other stories about love
Book of Enchantments
The Return of Bunny Suicides
Mother Courage and Her Children
never after
The Mermaid's Madness
Cast in Shadow
Darkness Calls
Huntress
Futures from Nature
The Neil Gaiman Reader

[aliseadae]

Ooh! Mermaid's Madness! I've been meaning to read something by Jim Hines.

[seabream.livejournal.com]

People talk about reading books without regards to the author-as-person with intent, background, etc... And I can understand that as a way of approaching formal literary analysis/criticism, but I find that there are books where, yes the work itself is good and stands on its own, but the layer you get from reading/hearing other stuff from/about the author makes the reading even better. I find this about Jim Hines' stories, and this is a good thing.

On a completely different topic: Arrogant Worms. Yes.

[oarlock-queen.livejournal.com]

Carly's running an Adventure game this semester? Hm...mayhap I should see about NPCing sometime... ( ^_^ )