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

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

Rebecca wrote: "Faye wrote: "Rebecca wrote: "I just started Ulysses and so far I don't understand it at all. I'm about fifty pages in, and I think this will be one I'll have to force myself to finish..."

Wow, congrats! Quite an achievement. :)

Renee wrote: "No shame! The library is a magical place. *sparkle sparkle*
It's like Disneyland for the literate. Only better because there's books and movies and music and magazines and newspapers and computers ..."

YES x 1000000000.

I still remember the library we went to when I was a little kid, no older than 3. It had a storybook train! I couldn't read yet, but I would run right over to that train and sit in every seat one after another, looking at all the books that were tucked away in each compartment. It's one of my most vivid childhood memories. Disneyland indeed!

Tara wrote: "Haha! I am exactly the same way! I have a kindle loaded with books I haven't read, a stack of books from the library, maxed out at the library for holds on e-book, some e-books checked out, and a b..."

I wish I could explain to the not-so-manic-about-books people in my life that it's healthy to be this way, LOL. It's one of those things that can't be sufficiently explained to anyone who doesn't automatically "get" it.

Clare wrote: "me too - my copy arrived in post today, excited!"

Ohhhh, that's always the best kind of delivery. :D

Okay, so... I currently have 14 books checked out of the library (many of which are children's books in French, is my justification). I have 3 more that I ordered and are ready to be picked up, 2 more that have been ordered and are not ready yet, and I just went to their website and ordered 3 more. Am I satisfied yet? NO. I had to restrain myself from ordering more and quickly X'ed out of the window, telling myself I could order them TOMORROW.

And the kicker? I have a pile of books sitting here that I own and haven't read yet, and another pile that my brother loaned to me that I haven't read yet.

Is this a sickness? Is there a cure? (Would I take the cure if one existed?)

Tell me I'm not alone! Library addicts unite!!

I'll be starting this at some point this week. I'm excited! :)

I'm so glad I'm in good company with the whole obsessive-bookmark thing! I collect bookmarks, have a massive pile of them on my shelves, and I'm always asking for more. It drives my aunt nuts when she asks what I want for my birthday, and I tell her bookmarks. "Didn't we get you bookmarks last year?" "Yes, but I want more!" EVERY YEAR. And yet I only use a handful of them. Ever.

I have 3 that are specifically for library books, because those are the ones that I don't mind getting all dirty and germy and other-people-smell-y. I have 3 that are my absolute favourites and are never EVER used for books that I don't own. Two of the 3 I only ever use in new books, but one of them I can use in second-hand books if they're in good condition. I have 2 that are for not-so-good-condition second-hand books, or really-good-condition library books. Then I have spares that aren't among my favourite bookmarks but can be used if I'm reading so many books at once that I've run out of the others, heh. All of the above are the fringed leather kind of bookmark that you can pick up in tourist places in the UK. I've been collecting them since I was a kid. (Life-long pet peeve - when someone takes a bookmark out of my book and puts it back in WITH THE FRINGE INSIDE. Fringe goes outside, people. Otherwise it gets all bent out of shape. And then so do I. :P)

There's also this paper Garfield bookmark that I've had since I was little (my very first "real" bookmark!) and has somehow survived, and I still use it sometimes to mark the notes at the end of classics... but never EVER in a library book, since I had a scare where I thought I'd sent the book back to the library with Garfield still in it! I have these mini-postcard bookmarks for use in the back of library books - they're nice, but it wouldn't be the end of the world if I lost them.

*deep breath* Ahh, it's so good to finally let all that out there. Hi, my name is Faye, and I'm a bookmark addict. :)

Jude wrote: "Don't bother finishing a bad book. This could be the last book you ever read. Do you want it to be a bad one??"

Whooooooa... I had never thought of it that way! :O

I'm reading Time and Again, which is awesome, and The House of the Dead, ditto.

Lucy wrote: "Rereading books is a privilege not a right."

That needs to be on a t-shirt.

Renee wrote: "I know "The Jesting of Arlington Stringham" which is from Saki's Chronicles of Clovis. Initially, I was shocked by the anti-semitism that Sandy is talking about. But, then I realized that Clovis wa..."

Oh! Sorry, I didn't even realize that Chronicles of Clovis was by Saki! *facepalm*

I've only read Best-of collections of his, and none of the names in the Clovis collection look familiar. Looks like you got off on the wrong foot with him, Sandy! Stories like The Schartz-Metterklume Method and The Mouse are just plain funny, no politics or sexism involved whatsoever, and those are the ones that made me a Saki fan.

Ashley wrote: "After skimming through the whole list of comments and how many books ppl read, I'm very ashamed of how many books I read."

Any amount is great, Ashley! As long as people are reading. :)

Amber wrote: "hey all. I'm sad cuz my dog ziva passed away today. I miss her so much. :("

Aw, I'm sorry, Amber. :(

Bridget wrote: "I love this question. Thanks for posting! The answers are very creative.

Without giving it much thought, mine would be "You Can't Make This Stuff Up: A collection of short stories.""

LOL I wish I'd thought of that one!

Do you have any "reading rules"? What are they?

Mine are pretty much the same as the ones in this article - http://bookriot.com/2013/05/22/what-y...

Especially the certain-bookmarks-for-certain-books thing. Oh yes. And stopping at the end of a chapter, though sadly that isn't always possible. Books with massively-long chapters drive me nuts.

Lindsay wrote: "Have any of you guys done the giveaways? I entered a whole bunch the night Noah went to my MILs and Mike went bowling. I won one! It's about ancient Chinese business ideas hehe I entered it for Mik..."

I've entered a bunch of times, but I've never won. Congrats!

Brenda wrote: "Like I said, I'm not bad-mouthing him. The man was making a living and he used a popular legend for its comic effects. My point was that there seemed to be some serious themes mixed with the comedy."

Definitely! Have you read Taming of the Shrew? I actually saw it as a tragedy.

Um... I just realized I'm sticking up for Shakespeare...

*checks self for fever*

Brenda wrote: "Thanks, Faye, and I agree with that. In this instance though, the story of Theseus is that he, at the very least, conquered Hippolyta and her kingdom. Depending on what version you read, that can include a lot of rapes in the conquering."

Hippolyta was a warrior in her own right. Seeing him battle like that probably did earn her respect and admiration. Then again, that's not the part of the story that's intended to be funny. It was a well-known mythological wedding that Shakespeare inserted another story into. He was basically spoofing it.

Renee wrote: "Also, it reminds me of the final paper I wrote for my geology course in college, where I created a little scifi/time travel storyline to deliver the information. I got the A, but, God knows it wasn't good storytelling. :o"

Nice idea!