june has been a suprisingly long month. at least it feels like it. i've had a lot (a lot) of free time on my hands, and therefore books have been a priority. Something which i've enjoyed.
jul 10 2011 ∞
jul 10 2011 + one of my favorite things to do on a sunday is searching for potential books to read. i've discovered that i'm getting quite picky. these are a few of my criterias:
i just read the first line of a book call... may 22 2011 ∞
may 22 2011 + remember i ordered those books a week ago? turns out i won't get them before i leave. which is a shame, because i don't really have any books to take with me when i go to barcelona (apart from saturday, which i haven't finished yet....). this just makes me really frustrated. GAH... anyway... i've been picking around a bit on the interwebz and discovered a new series i'm dying to get my hands on! the series is called the Entire and the Rose and it's written by Kay Kenyon.
it sounds really interesting because it's a mix of fantasy & science fiction. i still must confess to being a SF virgin when it comes to reading. definitely will be checking this out! mar 10 2011 ∞
mar 10 2011 + turns out, when i have a schedueled reading plan, i also get diciplined. it's like doing your homework. if you don't do this in time, there will be hell to pay. except that it won't, but i'm tricking my mentality into believing it anyway. i take some kind of perverse pride in telling people how much i've read. ANYWHO, i decided to extend my list for march, and the reason that is is because it's march 3rd and I only have one book left on my original list. another thing i take pride in. i therefore took the opportunity in ordering three new books today.
mar 3 2011 ∞
mar 30 2011 + sooo... turns out i managed to read five books out january and the month isn't even finished. i'm pretty proud of myself AND for sticking to my reading list. dicipline, ladies and gentlemen, karina the enchantress has it! and now to the verdict:
jan 25 2011 ∞
jan 25 2011 + I feel like I'm on a roll. Let's see...
Febuary, to tell you the truth, is optimistic compared to january. Let me tell you why: Dust of dreams is friggin 1280 pages long! Enough said dec 30 2010 ∞
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jun 2 2010 ∞
jun 2 2010 + i guess the year 2006 was the year when i got seriously intereseted in books. i've always been, it's just that i didn't have that kind of dicipline and scheduel i have now, where i plan which books to read in advance. to think about it, that's a rather recent developement. anyway, a friend of my gave me the great idea that i should write down every book i've ever read (i don't remember all of them ofc, but the ones i remember to have read), note down when i read them and comment whether or not these were any good. and this is part one:
jan 14 2010 ∞
jan 14 2010 + it's sunday and for most people sundays mean a state of headache, constant nausea and the stomachs screaming cries for pizza or other such unhealthy things. in other words, you're statistically likely to find yourself hungover. today, thank god, this isn't the case for me. however, i am considered to be a spreader of joy and i thought i'd share some of that joy here on listography. through songs to help your ever aching head:
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slowest reading month this year, i think. at least in terms of books. i only read three books in july, but to my offence, i was reading a dance with dragons by george rr martin, and that is one hell of a long book.
aug 2 2011 ∞
aug 2 2011 + i am currently, and probably always, on the quest for the perfect series. in the past, i have been able to discover them, but i am confident there are several more to be found. my search has almost exclusively been kept to the fantasy genre, be it dark fantasy, urban fantasy or epic fantasy, i am confident in saying i have a fair estimation of what's out there. don't get me wrong, i will continue reading fantasy literature, probably for the rest of my life, but since i've started the entire and the rose-series, which is a mix og scifi and fantasy, i have learned that to find the books that will appeal to me, i need to broaden my horizon. which is why, in july, i'm planning on reading my first ever steampunk novel. yeah, you heard me.
may 26 2011 ∞
may 28 2011 + this month started promising with me reading a lot of Ian Mcewan (my favorite author). i was all freaking out because i ordered new books which i thought i wouldn't be getting before i left to go back to school. turns out i got them! a day early even. i was very eager to finish those as well, but turns out you don't do a lot of reading when you go to barcelona in march. had it been in the summer, i would have, as i would have read a lot on the beach. but going on the beach in barcelona in march is... cold. anyway, here's the list!
mar 30 2011 ∞
apr 1 2011 + i'm thinking these books by Michael Moorcock is going to be my next fantasy project, as it's a pretty long line of books in this series.
maybe this summer? mar 4 2011 ∞
mar 4 2011 + the list for febuary is going pretty well, i have about 300 pages left of Dust of Dreams and febuary hasn't even started. for march, i decided to read something other than fantasy. i'm a big Ian McEwan fan and haven't read anything of his in a while now. i feel it's time to dig into his classics. i've only read Enduring Love, Atonement, On Chesil Beach and the Child in Time. i feel like i owe it to my favorite author.
jan 31 2011 ∞
feb 3 2011 + it's that time of year. that time of year when i become unhealthily obsessed with spring and everything that comes with it. i'm going to barcelona this march so i think it's safe to say that i will be needing a shopping list. i recently discovered the american brand madwell, but my heart was forced to shatter to a million pieces when i discovered they only ship inland and canada... WHY? somehow, all of their looks seemed to represent every style aesthetic that i want to incorporate into my wardrobe this spring/summer. oh well. guess i'll have to find another soloution. THE LIST:
jan 19 2011 ∞
jan 19 2011 + I noticed that I hadn't updated anything here since june. Now that's bad of me. I realize this list-thingy has gone from being lists of completely random things to book lists. I like the progression. It will probably continue down that path. So.. What have I been reading in the meantime?
nov 12 2010 ∞
jan 19 2011 + my english class is going to london during the winter vacation and i'm super exited. it's only a month away, caaan't believe it! i've been saving money for quite a while, so i guess it goes without saying that i'll be spending some money. but because i've been saving for months and months, it wouldn't be fair if i didn't have some sort of dicipline. it wouldn't be fair for me to simply buy whatever fell into my head. spontanous shoppins is probably the worst there is. unless it costs like $5, then you're ok. aaanway, i thought it was time for me to write a to-buy list. and heeere goes:
jan 23 2010 ∞
jan 23 2010 + i don't find myself infront of the tv too often. simply because my tv offer such poor views that i simply see no point. however, i "illegally" (now, let's not get caught in such trivial matters, moving on. nothing fishy to see here) download tv shows which airs in the states and which it will take years and years for my national network to show. one tv show i must exclude from this, but we'll get to that in a minute. be patient, my friend.
dec 27 2009 ∞
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to be honest, i completely forgot this place excisted, and then i remembered and now i've been reading my old lists back to back. cringing at the grammar and spelling while at the same time being rather amused at my literary musings, maybe it's time i wrote a new book list? things have changed a lot since that last book list. i mean, a few years to begin with. i've just completed a bachelor in english literature & creative writing and i'm currently standing on that great threshold of life, opportunity and potential otherwise known as "i need to get a fucking job and sort my life out"-spiel. OH WELL. let's talk about books. this whole listopgraphy-blog turned into my quest for finding that new, cool, awesome fantasy series. it's not easy. it's really fucking not. i may have given the impression that this quest was pretty much the only thing on my mind, but when you'... aug 4 2014 ∞
aug 4 2014 + i guess you can say this has been another slow month. i've read quite a few different things and i've read in a way i not usually do; reading several books at the same time.
may 28 2011 ∞
may 28 2011 + this montht's actually been kind of slow reading wise. i'm in this reading period where i'm basically just reading new stuff. i start with the first book of a series, trilogy or whatever and see what i'll be stoked about reading next.
may 1 2011 ∞
may 1 2011 + april and may are still open for yet further literature adventures. lets start with april. i think i will be going back to contemporary fiction. and this is what i'm thinking so far:
i'm thinking there will still be room for more, i am however reluctant to add more to the list as i don't know if i will be in the "mood" for reading these books come april. right now, all i really want to read is fantasy. i get excited like that sometimes. then we have may. as i've already ordered lies of locke lamora AND assassin's apprentice i'm thinking i should continue down that road. HOWEVER: mar 4 2011 ∞
apr 1 2011 + I just finished my reading list for febuary a couple of minutes ago, and i tell you, it wasn't pretty. more about that later, now; the verdict:
feb 21 2011 ∞
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jan 19 2011 ∞
jan 19 2011 + I've officially given up on my former to-read list. I've decided to take it one month at a time and create some form of schedule. Because this past half year has been quite the disaster when it comes to reading. I've read what.. 3 books? I wrote here that I was going to pick up the Darknes that comes before by R. Scott Bakker, after I'd read Towers of Midnight. But it just didn't grip me. Instead I finished Toll the Hounds, which had an amazing ending! ANYWAY. january:
Five books in a month, it's probably a stretch, but I reckon the two by Gail Carriger is going to go pretty fast as they're... dec 30 2010 ∞
dec 30 2010 + It's time to finish the list I started earlier. The list ended in March 2008 and it's time to pick it up from there. Wow, March 2008 is almost two years ago. Daaamn. Time flies. Aaanyway:
jan 28 2010 ∞
jan 28 2010 + i hate it when people are all like: in tens years i will be doing this and that. to me, planning stuff like that, years and years in advance, doesn't make sense. i won't get started on that discussion, but here's some "plans" it would be rather cool if i could achieve.
right.. i guess this list turned out a little skinnier than i thought it would. i guess i don't really have that many great future fantasy plans. well, well. not really surprised. dec 27 2009 ∞
dec 27 2009 + or something like that. anyway, since this is my first day of this listography thingy i guess i better do something about that. expand this whole page or something like that. so today is your treat, because i decided i'm going to give a itsy bitsy tiny little summary of how awesome today is going to be:
dec 26 2009 ∞
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