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Re: Breaking My Library Habit and Reading My Own Books

Deborah K. — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:36:39 -0000

This is exactly the story of my life. And it's much worse because I work in a library too. Yet I will go to all the library systems in our reciprocal area to get a book I want. I tried to do something where for library book I read, I'd have to read 3 personal books. But then due dates! And people placing holds on my stuff and I can't renew! It will never end.....

Re: Books to Read While You Wait for The Last Jedi

Deborah K. — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:20:58 -0000

I've actually really enjoyed all the novelizations of the movies. I think they've given more depth into characters and from POVs that might not have happened in the movies. Most of which makes me cry like a baby.

Example: Rogue One - there's a POV from K2 before *SPOILERS* dies and as he's dying he thinks of Cassian getting free and it was a good thought and then he dies thinking that. *SOBS*

Re: A Sweet Valley High Movie is Coming (from the Writer of Legally Blonde!)

Deborah K. — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:06:55 -0000

So I guess Diablo Cody gave up?

Re: 13 Awesome Audiobooks Read by Actors

Deborah K. — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:27:30 -0000

More Tim Curry love - The Lemony Snicket series! There's a few books where Lemony himself does the reading but most of the books are wonderfully narrated by Curry. That cough. You know the one.

Re: How Church Shopping Has Impacted My Reading

Deborah K. — Fri, 26 May 2017 16:33:39 -0000

I am currently in the same boat with looking for a new church! So I can relate very much to this post. I love Annie's writing and that book of her is a favorite of mine. Good luck to your search! I agree that it's harder than I thought it would be.

Re: What You Missed at the 2017 Romantic Times Convention

Deborah K. — Thu, 18 May 2017 10:28:17 -0000

The Expanding Our Idea of Inspirationals panel sounds like it was AMAZING. As someone for years been frustrated with the boundaries and walls that Christian fiction continues to limit itself to, THIS is what I want more of.

Re: 12 Things That Happen When You Read for 24 Hours Straight

Deborah K. — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:42:12 -0000

One year I stayed up the full 24 hours. I read for 50 minutes each hour and then the final 10 minutes would be my break. I think I also may have done 2 hours over the 24 hours where I read for 10 minutes and then napped/showered/something to stay awake. I believe I ended up reading 19 books that day. Haven't been able to repeat that again but it was tons of fun.

Re: Who Decided that Noah’s Ark was a Children’s Tale?

Deborah K. — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:29:17 -0000

I just want to say that Many Waters, the 4th book in the A Wrinkle in Time series, is my favorite Noah story of all time. I think Madeline L'engle did an excellent job of turning a familiar story more interesting, and then taking two characters who were essentially background cardboard characters in the other books, and fleshing them out.

Re: The Inbox/Outbox Method: How I Whittled Down My TBR Pile

Deborah K. — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 08:54:21 -0000

I'm pretty much doing the same thing but it's not books I purchased, it's books I get from the library. Because I work in a library and also have reciprocal rights to several other really great systems near me, I am always putting things on hold and then they come in for me. But then I kept neglecting everything I already owned. So I'm currently trying to read my personal books (which got WAY out of control) but I still have a library book every now and then and then I feel guilty about not reading my own books again. Your system is something I'm going to try out because it seems the best way for me to whittle down my own shelves AND be able to get the new stuff at the library.

Re: Frontlist Fatigue; Or, No, I Won’t Preorder Your Book

Deborah K. — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:15:10 -0000

I feel the same way and also too used to be a former book blogger. The only book I have ever preordered in my life was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows because...of course I had to. But in terms of normal books and ARCs: I had a schedule at the time of only reviewing one book a day. So many books got sent to me that shared the same release date. And the publishers/blog tours would want the books to be posted about on certain dates which would then wreck my review schedule. I got so backlogged with trying to figure out my schedule that it got frustrating and I eventually gave up book blogging. These days, I only "preorder" aka place a hold on new books in my library catalog.

Re: Book Storage Ideas for Apartments and Small Living Spaces

Deborah K. — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:58:42 -0000

The first picture. So much wasted space. So many empty shelves. I would have no idea what that would be like because mine would be double stacked and then books on top, etc.

Re: Buy, Borrow, Bypass: YA Novels about Nerds

Deborah K. — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:17:54 -0000

While I do enjoy books about nerds/geeks, the books where the girl is the geek vs the boy, is rare. Fangirl is the exception but I wish there were more.

Re: Meet My New Book Tracking Addiction: Bookout

Deborah K. — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 11:13:06 -0000

Argh. I got super excited to try this out until I got to the part about it being only for IOS. The frustration of being an Android user feeling left out strikes again.

Re: Literary Tourism: The Baby-Sitters Club Pilgrimage Tour

Deborah K. — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 08:27:43 -0000

Also need to go to Disney World because Baby Sitters on Board is the best book ever. When I went to the Magic Kingdom for the first time this year and among the many things that ran through my head was seeing Cinderella's castle and wondering what crenellation was (thanks Elizabeth), looking for the Dearly Departed Dave gravestone, and being said that the Empress Lily was no longer in service.

Re: A Year of Reading Only Women, A Year Of Changing My Life

Deborah K. — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:16:25 -0000

This may be a weird question but did you ever come across a book that had a woman's name and then you find out later it's a pen name? Or vice versa, a man's name is the author but it's really a woman writing a pen name (ie Robert Galbraith). I've come across this more in fiction than nonfiction but I just wondered if one should just assume the name is the gender or look for pictures/do more research, etc. if you're attempting a challenge like this.

Re: Great Fiction From Malaysia And Singapore

Deborah K. — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 12:27:39 -0000

Oh thank you for this list! My mom is from Malaysia and she's always asking me for more authors from there and this is perfect!

Re: 11 Websites To Find Free Audiobooks Online

Deborah K. — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:18:49 -0000

If your library uses Hoopla, I highly recommend that as well. It's even better than Overdrive because the items are always available, you don't have to wait in line! Plus you can stream from the site and don't have download if you don't want to.

Re: Reading “Little House on the Prairie” As An Adult

Deborah K. — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:12:11 -0000

I have to say the reason why I love these books is all the talk about food. I know that Laura was half starving during a lot of these books but oh gosh some of the descriptions are just perfect for a foodie. It's also why I love reading the Little House cookbook by Barbara Walker because it takes all the best bits in one volume.

Re: The Holy Book(s): An Experiment in Reading Inspirational Romance

Deborah K. — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:45:12 -0000

As someone who has been reading inspirational romances since she was 8 years old (oh hello Janette Oke), I have a love/hate relationship with the genre. I love it because while you have do some digging, there are some really great authors and stories out there regardless of the faith of the characters. They just happened to be Christian in their faith and that's how they live their lives but it doesn't affect the plot too much. I hate it though because like you mentioned, the genre as a whole is so white. Being a POC myself, it's very disheartening that this will probably not change because the market is all of that demographic and they want to read what they are familiar with. I would love to see more diversity but....it probably will not happen anytime soon.

Re: Where Are All the Asian Kids in Contemporary YA Romance?

Deborah K. — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 11:39:50 -0000

It's funny because I was just talking about this with my sister the other day. Growing up the only consistent Asian American main female character we had was Claudia from The Baby-Sitters Club. (I'm still ticked off there isn't an Asian girl as a main historical American Girl doll. Ivy as a sidekick does not count) I'm now in my 30s and I STILL would love to read more about Asian teens in YA contemporaries.

Re: 3 On A YA Theme: The Great San Francisco Earthquake

Deborah K. — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 11:32:44 -0000

squee! I had no idea Stacey Lee had a new book coming out so I'm thrilled to see this! I LOVED Under a Painted Sky.

Re: 3 On A YA Theme: Teen Memoirs

Deborah K. — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:39:30 -0000

Two of the best YA memoirs I read last year were We Should Hang Out Some Time by Josh Sundquist (by far the funniest book I read in 2015) and Popular by Maya Van Wangenen.

Highly recommend both.

Re: Conversion Stories: How We Started Listening to Audiobooks

Deborah K. — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 10:25:57 -0000

I had grown up listening to Adventures in Odyssey so I knew I liked listening to audio stories but the first audiobook for me was Bad Dreams by RL Stine, narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan. Even though I had read the book before, LISTENING to it read out loud was TERRIFYING and I loved it.

Re: Keeping Up With The Foxes: Growing Up Alongside FoxTrot

Deborah K. — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:09:57 -0000

So glad to hear there are other FoxTrot fans! I loved this series when I was younger and I recently went back and reread all the collections. Jason is my geeky younger twin.

Re: An Introduction to Bookish ASMR Videos

Deborah K. — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:08:38 -0000

Ahhhh. So I discovered ASMR videos a year ago but apparently they have affected me for years without me knowing the official title of them. This post is highly comforting!