Oh I absolutely count mandatory stuff.

If I'm spending the next 5 months looking at these textbooks, I want credit damn it.

Ok I went to the library.

If I tell you I am going to the book store, STOP ME.

Be like "no u have books to read already k???"

If I show up in here with books from the bookstore, I need you to publicly shame me, because I have something else to finish reading first.

Well, this year I'm setting my aim for 30 books this year and I'm already one down! La personne et le sacré by Simon Weil is an extremely good, short and straight to the point philosophy essay.

I saw this one at the library today

I'm just here to meme right now though

Who uses bookmarks?

I confess that I don't, if it's my book, I just dog ear the pages.

Library book, I'll just make a bookmark.

"The Alchemist"

My experience with the story came from an audible book

Let me tell you, the best way to take the suspense out of a dramatic moment is with awkward voice interpretation.

I busted my sides laughing so hard.

If you know the tale then let me say this about what I heard.

The guy sounded like Pepé Le Pew in a fit of rage delicing war on all cucks in the land.

Same as last year, I'll go for 16 books.

... what do you mean its not the same?! I splurged on some 16-bit and this is gonna be a sweet 16! 16! 16 books this year and that's final!

Okay, maybe 16 isn't the same from last year. But hey, I'll go for it.

These two sound awesome, went ahead and got kindle editions of both. Cosmic horror is something I nominally love but haven't actually explored other than Bloodborne and a bit of Lovecraft, I'm partly afraid to go too deep in case the concepts lose their appeal by exposure.

I have a few bookmarks around, but they're never in arms reach when I need them so instead I use yugioh cards most of the time. That's how you know I'm cultured.

@Rigoesbueno @chainychainick @GallowJolt @man-cruss welcome aboard y'all

@ThatOne05, are you setting a goal or just reading as you go?

Still ambitious unless you're already in a consistent reading routine. And yeah, all of it counts if you want.

Not sure how much of an investment buying albums in 2019 is, but fair enough.

Ok then, 20. I think I can manage that much. However many I read in the end, it'll be a nice experience to try doing some book reviews for a change. It'll be nice to share it with you too. Hopefully I'll be more educated or something by the end of it. I really do want to get into literature and when I start reading, I can read a lot, I'm just lazy.

Yugioh cards are quite cultured good sir

Someone just gifted me some magnetic book marks for my birthday. Love them.

I got a few cat ones for Christmas, suppose I'll use them!

Mine are Harry Potter. :D

Of the Weird Fiction big hitters Lovecraft is pretty low down the list for me honestly. Full of great ideas but I find his writing itself relatively bland. M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood are my favourites, and I'll definitely be reading more Hodgson and Machen in the future.

If you are going to dive into just keep in mind that the stuff pop culture tends to draw from it (mostly big squids) is a relatively small part of the genre as a whole.

Did you get yours from wands too? I got a Harry, two Rons and a Luna before I decided to stop tempting fate. It's not my fault there aren't a lot of marketable Hufflepuffs. It could be argued Ron is Hufflepuff adjacent.

I picked up the Harry Potter books for the first time in forever a while back because I was going to a comic convention with my niece and there was an escape room we did not look to see you needed to pre-book. We still had a good time, despite the tension of her being a proud slytherin.

Huffllepuff here! Mine just look like house emblems.

20% (82/444pg) through Typhoon Fury by Clive Cussler. Cussler's books have been a staple for me for a few years now since I was able to get a full set for about $30 at a Value Village. They're small and interesting enough to be manageable, but also disposable enough I can keep random copies in my car or at work.

So far, pretty good. Standard spy-thriller fare.

Why don't residents of Gotham City just expect ALL ground breaking ceremonies to be interrupted by villains.

Has there EVER been ANY public ceremony where someone doesn't show up and start shit?

I thought for a while that I'd be a Slytherin but I ended up being a Ravenclaw, which is fine with me

1) Birds & Bloom December 2018 Issue

Yup! My first reading item is a magazine. I have some books on hold that won't be available till Saturday and I'm excited to read them so be on the look out for Relic and The Ruins plus a third whose name escapes me but I got it to see if there's any mention of this book that was written in the 1920s that I've been hunting for since the Part 4 installment of my article series.

In regards to the bookmarks discussion, I haven't had one since the Summer Reading 2018 Challenge from the library. I mainly use the library book receipt, paper clips or a folded candy wrapper.

This year I am going to try for five books.

I think it's pretty neat and fair that audio book counts as well. A good story can teach good storytelling no matter how the input was obtained. Beside, kinda hard to read and draw at the same time.

The Silmarillion

I heard this is where some of the deep lore lives so I plan on checking out what in so deep.

I am going to try to knock out The Stand

This one is heavy. That is all I know so far.

Loving it. I like Nick Andros. I can relate to him for some reason.Most of it is too unsettling for me to think too long about. I swear my heart ached knowing what Nick had to do to that dead woman. God, she must have been stunningly beautiful in that moment. Ugh...I made myself sad now.

Done with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Oh god, I could not stop laughing.

I don't wanna spoil anything, humor is as subjective as art so I don't wanna ruin the magic of a good joke.

I started on The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Kinda at odds with the crew in this one. To soon to tell what is going on. Still trying to make sense of how and why a two head person wants to pull some cloack and dagger over himself. Then again, great voice acting in this one. Nailed it, tops!

After which I wanna move on to Life, the Universe, and Everything

All books listed are can be found on Audible.com

My old man faked his dead once to get out of reading me bed time story when I was a kid.

Just saw the Lion King movie and was shaken up about the concept of death at the age of 5.

Don't know why I said that. Just thought it meant something.

The concept sounds as trilling as

I intend to read 2 books a month. Mostly selections of Non fictions and fictions.

I'm currently reading Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa.

Actually, speaking of Bloodborne, couldn't help but think of this while reading House on the Borderland. They're both not quite normal eclipses and the description in the book is very similar.

I did the same, except do not try to stop me. No one can stop me I am too powerful.

At 1/9/19 11:56 AM, Absurd-Ditties wrote:

* bows to you*

At 1/8/19 03:47 PM, Jackho wrote:

You do possess a point , I mean Buying a album would been more feasible in other decades before even before Streaming services came more prominate in the late 2000s.I've been streaming music for a great deal since 2006 myself. I'm also using Audible as well so I'm thinking that might be more viable on my busy schedule.

I'm here and I have a goal of 40 and...

January:

1. The Problem with Forever by Jennifer L. Armentrout *
2. Swine Not?: A Novel Pig Tale by Jimmy Buffett
3. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
4. She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman by Ian Kerner

The Anarchist Cookbook

Oh the mischief people got into because of that.

Right, lol! I really enjoyed it.

If yall are looking for something, I'm about 10 chapters in on this one, and it's excellent. Reminds me of Doctor Who a bit.