Faye’s Comments (group member since Nov 05, 2013)

Faye’s comments from the The Reading Challenge Group group.

Renee wrote: "Nerd Fact:
The length your hair will grow is genetically predetermined. Some people literally can't grow their hair longer than shoulder length. It just breaks off at that point."

Wow, I didn't know that!

Mine gets long enough for me to sit on if I leave it alone for a few years. The split ends start to drive me nuts before that happens, though, and so do all the comments I get from people asking pointedly if I plan on cutting my hair anytime soon. Good grief, people, it's MY hair, I can grow it like Rapunzel if I wanted to... :P

Generally speaking, I tend to cut it shoulder-length at the beginning of summer, then let it grow for the rest of the year. I like to have it long in the winter to help keep my neck warm!

John wrote: "If I find a typo, I will underline the wrong word, or the wrong part of the word, lightly, and write the correct word in the margin. I can't bear to let those errors remain, as if I hadn't paid the..."

That's actually kind of awesome, John. :D

Nice!

Sandy wrote: "Faye, I always thought it must be you hiding behind that book! LOL"

It could have been! LOL I was into Dickens even as a wee'un! Nobody got a picture of me, though, so I snapped one quick one day when my niece picked up Our Mutual Friend and pretended to be reading it. It's probably the only decent photograph I've ever taken, so I've used it as my profile pic for years, haha!

My profile picture is of my niece, and she is not that little anymore. *cries*

Holly wrote: "New profile picture! Shock horror! Not sure whether to keep or not... I don't like change!"

Look at you, looking all College Girl... :D

Melissa wrote: "or write the Latin quote in English, make a meaning clearer."

Ohh, that's a good idea! I wish I'd been doing that all these years, heh.

Melissa wrote: "The margin of my Bible reads like a commentary. "

I did that with my Bible when I was a teenager, and I loved having a Bible that was so "well loved," but sadly I've lost that Bible and now have one with paper that's too thin to even highlight anything. I miss having all those notes and highlighted passages!

Roseanne wrote: "I am going to see if I can get a copy. That may just be the solution to my nonfiction dilemma."

Awesome!

I'm more likely to write in the margins of a nonfiction book, but even then... hardly ever! It has to be something that really jumps out at me and makes me think, and then very lightly in pencil I might underline the passage and put a word or two in the margin to remind me what my thought was, for posterity's sake. ALWAYS VERY LIGHTLY, and easily erased. I never, that I can recall, mark up a novel.

Do you write in margins? Does the very idea of it raise your blood pressure? If you do write in margins, what do you write? What can possibly move you to do such a thing? ;)

Roseanne wrote: "Are you guys reading Surprised by joy in November? I still haven't decided on a book for nonfiction for November."

I'm not sure when I'll be starting it, but even if I start in October I'll still be reading it in November. You're welcome to join me!

Renee wrote: "C. S. Lewis!!! Great stuff! Love the fiction and the non-fiction. Really accessible and thought-provoking. Did you say you're starting with Surprised By Joy? I just loved that book. So beautiful."

I'm really looking forward to it! :)

Roseanne wrote: "I have only read the Narnia series but I have always wanted to read more."

You should! He's an amazing author. :)

Thanks, Kassandra!

Melissa wrote: "Faye, what are you doing with your burst of energy, reading or writing?"

Neither, actually - I've been crafting and planning for Christmas, and making way too many online posts!

Michael wrote: "Also yes, and what is worse, is that I am reading slower as I age, and my tbr list is growing."

It's funny how that goes, isn't it? You'd think that the older you get and the more you read, the shorter your tbr list would get, and yet the opposite seems to be true. It's kind of Twilight Zone-esque... *eerie music*

Holly wrote: "So... tired... and I have so much work to do still.

Plus it's horrendous weather here, and the campus is so big that it takes forever to walk everywhere.

Moan over :P"

Aw... it sucks that the honeymoon is over so soon for you, Holly! I hope you're finding things to enjoy about university life, though?

I've been crazy tired lately, but for some reason today I've got a sudden burst of energy. I'm trying to make the most of it!

Thanks, Holly!

Do you have structural issues at your library, Michael? Books just fall off the shelves?!

Iasa wrote: "I would read it too! Well since he didn't write that, I might just have to do it myself.

I'll read Out of the Silent Planet with you, I have a pdf of it, so just let me know when you ..."

Yes! Write it!

Cool, will do. If anybody else is interested, we could open a buddy read thread for it and make it all official. *looks around* Any takers?

Thanks, Melissa!