BTT: New Year's Resolutions
Jan. 1st, 2009 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've skipped at least one of these--I was a bit busy last Thursday--but am happy to let the first post of the new year go to Booking Through Thursday!
This week's question:
My bookish resolutions:
The one thing I'm looking forward to reading this year? The copy of THe Adventures of Luther Arkwright that I just ordered from Amazon. I'm also looking forward (in a different way) to the release of Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, which will either be tremendously helpful or lulz-worthy. I'm hoping for the former. The various dissertation books I read kept me going and kept my spirits up, so I'm holding out great hope for this book.
These are, of course, reads that come to mind in the moment. There are lots of books I want to read that are more Resolution-list worthy, but I hate the constraints placed on me by grand expectations. I like to just kinda flit and float through the shelves, succumbing to my minds whims. This is why I need to read that second book...
What about you?
This week's question:
Happy New Year, everyone!
So … any Reading Resolutions? Say, specific books you plan to read? A plan to read more ____? Anything at all?
Name me at least ONE thing you’re looking forward to reading this year!
My bookish resolutions:
- To read what I want to read as often as I can
- To read what I have to read in as timely a fashion as I can
- To be wise enough to know the difference
The one thing I'm looking forward to reading this year? The copy of THe Adventures of Luther Arkwright that I just ordered from Amazon. I'm also looking forward (in a different way) to the release of Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, which will either be tremendously helpful or lulz-worthy. I'm hoping for the former. The various dissertation books I read kept me going and kept my spirits up, so I'm holding out great hope for this book.
These are, of course, reads that come to mind in the moment. There are lots of books I want to read that are more Resolution-list worthy, but I hate the constraints placed on me by grand expectations. I like to just kinda flit and float through the shelves, succumbing to my minds whims. This is why I need to read that second book...
What about you?
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on 2009-01-01 06:13 pm (UTC)Ok, my bookish resolution will be to read Lord of the Rings. I've started twice, so perhaps the third time will be the charm :o)
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on 2009-01-01 06:54 pm (UTC)Ok, my bookish resolution will be to read Lord of the Rings. I've started twice, so perhaps the third time will be the charm :o)
I'm ashamed to say I haven't finished the last book in that trilogy.
*hangs head in shame*
I would promise to get to it this year, but I know I'll just disappoint myself!
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on 2009-01-02 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-01-01 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2009-01-01 06:57 pm (UTC)I, too, am guilty of this particular crime. Show me a pretty cover and I'm all a-puddle.
I would like to get through them before buying anything else-though 'The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage' is tempting?
Is this a purchase you're considering, or have already made? Any icon-worthy images inside? LOL!
Do coffee table books count?
Of course they do--I'm counting a graphic novel, after all!
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on 2009-01-02 02:31 am (UTC)http://www.amazon.com/Seductive-Art-Japanese-Bondage/dp/1890159387
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on 2009-01-02 02:45 am (UTC)That looks...erm...intriguing...
Let me know if it's any good or not! :-D
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on 2009-01-02 12:45 pm (UTC)Oooh, Shibari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_bondage) can actually be quite beautiful when done right.
Though I am on the vanilla side of kink, I have a lot of good friends that practice Shibari and I've always found it, at least, intellectually interesting.
I hope the book is good. It looks like a very interesting read. :)
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on 2009-01-01 06:27 pm (UTC)I've no bookish resolutions - I'll read what I like, when I like, as ever!
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on 2009-01-01 06:59 pm (UTC)I've no bookish resolutions - I'll read what I like, when I like, as ever!
I would expect nothing less from you, m'dear!
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on 2009-01-01 07:14 pm (UTC)I can understand that...
I would expect nothing less from you, m'dear!
Heh! I'm such a rebel!
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on 2009-01-02 12:54 pm (UTC)Of course, it might make it harder to imagine Tennant as Arkwright or any of the other characters as how you might have imagined them with their comic!personas before you, but I haven't found that to be a big problem. :)
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on 2009-01-02 02:29 pm (UTC)You know, I have a really hard time imagining him in this role, perhaps because I looked at online images of the character long before I started listening to the audio. In fact, that's one of the things bugging me about the audio--I don't see the character in my head when I hear DT, and I can't imagine DT in a role where he's toting a gun and surrounded by so much gore. The only images I've got from DW that even begin to achieve that are of Handy and his weapon in JE (which he doesn't actually fire) and the Doctor in TND (who fires, but doesn't technically kill). He just doesn't strike me as this kind of action hero.
I don't really have an image of the other characters yet, aside from some generic archetypal images based on nationality and speech patterns.
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