Sunday, December 16, 2012

Things That Are Awesome

-Tumblr. I realize I'm super late to the party here, but I finally got myself an account. Follow me for all your .giffing needs!

-The Girl of Fire and Thorns. Again, way late to the party, but I just started reading it and it's friggin' awesome. I'm told the sequel is even better. I can't imagine how that's possible, but I'm excited nonetheless.

-Awesome coincidences. A coworker is moving and wanted to gift me a YA trilogy she thought I'd love (The Gemma Doyle series) so she wouldn't have to lug it across the country. This just so happened to be the exact YA trilogy my editor suggested I read. SCORE!

-This quote: 'If a book is well written, I always find it too short.'--Jane Austen, born today in 1775. And her wisdom still holds true hundreds of years later! 

-Toddlers. Always toddlers. Ben, listening to his chest with mommy's stethoscope: 'I can hear my heartbeep!' Later in the day we drove past an ambulance and he said 'Oh no! Someone has a big boo boo!' <3<3<3

-My Christmas present to myself. I got a little carried away, as you tell. I regret nothing. 




13 comments:

  1. I've read Across the Universe and The Girl of Fire and Thorns and both were absolutely fantastic. Enjoy!

    Also, welcome to tumblr. :)

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  2. OMG Ben has stolen my heart. He's the sweetest.

    That xmas present to yourself looks amazing! I think I'm going to go buy myself something just like that tonight :D

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    1. Ben is pretty damn awesome :)

      And feel free to borrow from my awesome pile of books!

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  3. I think you may need to invest in a kindle, unless you're building up your upper arm strength lugging around all those books! 2013 may be the year when I fold and go e-book.

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    1. Maybe I'll get one for Christmas? Maybe even my husband got me one? Maybe he's a terrible hinter? Maybe I should shut up now?

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  4. That's as fine a self-Christmas present as I've ever seen. Clearly, I have fond feelings about all of those. ENJOY!

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  5. I just got tumblr too. It's addicting! I could spend hours just searching through different tags.

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    1. Tags? I obviously still have some learning to do...

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  6. Me thinks you are doing what I'm doing and reading something from all of our retreat buddies?! I have almost the same pile to dig into:-)

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  7. Awww, Ben sounds totally adorbs. Better not let me near his cheeks--I might pinch them.

    I have a similar stack (page? screen? links?) of awesome YA ebooks I've been dying to read that my mom just gifted me for Chrismtas. Since she didn't specifiy a date for Amazon to send them to me, I got to "open" them early. Wheee! I started CODE NAME VERITY last night. So far: yummmm.

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