i have a nasty habit of trolling sites like the ehub and categoriz looking for, as a friend put it, "cool and useless" sites. one of my latest discoveries is chainreading, a tool for book addicts. granted, there are a few fuller-featured tools, like bookswellread and even a random ning app, but i like chainreading. it's prettier. not quite so ostentatiously "web 2.0". and i like that the guy was running it out of his attic for a while. (for the interested, my profile.
now, understand, i haven't done any major reading since my college class in 19th-century british novels--but i've missed it something wretched. i've been able to feel vocabulary and principles of sentence structure just draining away, slipping into oblivion, disappearing down the dark recesses of memory. as you can tell, see?! i was very thoroughly trained to NOT write in clichés, and just look at me now! look at me! in the words of the indomitable charles brown, *AUGH!*
no matter: between chainreading and booksfree, the netflix clone for books, i've...uh, turned a new leaf. (i know, i know, there are libraries. tell you what: you find me a library that has ALL the 2006 nebula award nominees AND the entire new jedi order series, and i'll consider going to your library. what was that? nevermind? yeah, that's right.)
in other news: this is still the old blog, and there aren't any pictures up. hush, i'm working.