Always Advent

Note: this stack is certainly not exhaustive. If I put all my favorite books here it would be a pretty tall, teetering stack…

From top to bottom, the stack is: James and the Giant Peach, Pride and Prejudice (the most recent favorite), The Hobbit, All Creatures Great and Small (featuring one of my favorite characters in all literature, Cedric the Farting Boxer), Lord of the Rings, and Watership Down.

Taking a class at the moment. Three guesses which author we’re studying, and the first two guesses don’t count. :)

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This would have been an “early October ‘07 Stack o’ books”, but it has taken me this long to figure out to resize my photos back to the way they were when I first started doing this without a hitch. This is because in early October I started reading David Allen’s Getting Things Done, and it has really helped.

Before that I was doing Clare Siobhan’s Getting Nothing Done. Now I am starting to Get Things Done. Sort of. For example, the GTD book is due at the library today, and I am only just now realizing it, because even though I captured the information and collected it into my time-sensitive “next actions list” (my calendar) I failed to review it and have therefore not taken the book back yet. Fortunately, even though the night is not exactly young (it’s 9:58 pm) and the library is closed, I can still take it to the after-hours drop box. That’s called “getting things done just barely in time”, which is not ideal for one’s “psychic RAM” but it’s better than forgetting altogether, the way Getting Nothing Done me would have done it.

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As usual, click on the image to get a bigger picture.

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This is Number One Daughter’s current stack o’ books. Click on the photo for an image big enough to read the titles.

Note the 17-tear cicadas, which have been fascinating us, dive-bombing us, crawling on us, keeping us indoors during the day due to their noise–according to the Wikipedia entry on cicadas, they are “the most efficient and loudest sound-producing insects in the world.” We have them by the billions, I think, in my neighborhood.

Number One Daughter and Number Two Daughter have each eaten one. Number One Son has declined to do so, as have I.

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Most of these are library check-outs. Now ask me how many of them I actually read…
(Answer: 5 out of 7)

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This is Number One Daughter’s stack o’ books. As you can see, she takes after Mom. (Click on the picture to read the titles.)

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I read more than one book simultaneously, but this is extreme, even for me! (Click on the picture to read the titles.)