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I am so ready to get some freakin' answers. ( Read more... )

My new computer shipped. It should be arriving soon. I can't wait. I hope Dylan has time to help me get it set up and get all my files transferred over this weekend. I want to install The Sims and Photoshop and get a digital camera.

Jorn emailed me Big Pimpin'. This song has been stuck in my head for at least two days. My life is good.

books 2005: Reflections of Osiris, by John Ray

Full title: Reflections of Osiris: Lives from Ancient Egypt. Pretty interesting.

Just in case all of you were getting bored with reading my endless "Books I Read" posts, I thought I'd make things a little more interactive. Now you, my lj-friends, can choose the next book I read. Well, not the VERY next one--the very next book will be The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, because Farbs lent it to me with many squees and sighs, and also I needed to have the very next book lined up so I can start it right away, and I figure I'll give you a few days to fill out the poll. But the next book after The History of Love will be whatever book y'all choose in the poll below. I will abide by your decision.

Things to consider: please don't vote for more than three books. You can vote for just one, if you'd rather, but don't vote for more than three or else I'm afraid the results will get screwed up. I have linked each book to its listing on amazon so you can go check it out if you haven't heard of it. These are books that are sitting around my room currently, and this list does not include everything on my shelves waiting to be read (but it does include some recent acquisitions and some that have been staring me down for a few years, just for balance). If you want to recommend something feel free to do so in the comments but it will not likely be the very next thing I read. Also keep in mind that reading Robin Hobb has in the past been highly upsetting for me (edit: here's the post where I talked about that!), so if you vote for that you'll likely be voting for me to sob, puke, and generally obsess over not just the first book but the entire trilogy since I'm sure I'll need to go on once I start it. But if that's y'all's verdict I can deal. Oh, and Whitegirl is supposed to be really good according to Sara Nelson, which is why I bought it.

I included a question in the poll about several books I started in the past at some point but never finished. If I pick up one of those I will therefore finish another one as well and count them together as one book for the purposes of my book counting this year. I think that's fair.

Anyway, on to the poll:

[Poll #492717]