Doomed!
There is a doom upon you, but of what sort I know not.
Completely unrelated: When my daughter was younger and I tried to share my copious experience in an effort to stop her from making the same butthead mistakes I did, she didn’t exactly cover her ears. What she did, instead, was declaim loudly, “Doomed! I’m doomed!”
Tags: doomed, family, self-indulgence, what not to do | Filed in Rambling, Reading
Posted by Sandra on January 16, 2008 | Comments closed
I’m going to steal this line
“Silence, traitor! Death is your doom now.”
And this one:
“I have a doom laid on me, a doom that concerns us all, and I seek your help.”
Tags: doomed, self-indulgence, what not to do | Filed in Reading
Posted by Sandra on December 26, 2007 | Comments closed
LibraryThing updated
Only 25 books so far this year. I’ve been checking a lot of books out of the library and returning them unread — too busy to read, and then too tired to read anything that requires concentration.
Looking at my tags by year, I can see that a lot of the books I read in earlier years are missing. I think I’ll try to add them as I remember them. Getting the years right will be almost impossible. Heh heh. “You couldn’t have read that book in 2002! It came out in 2005!”
Tags: books read | Filed in Reading
Posted by Sandra on June 14, 2007 | Comments closed
Vocabulary check: noisome
From an anonymous book, chapter 1, paragraph 3:
I spread my arms wide and leaned into the oncoming mass, blowing a whistle that was more noisome than effective.
(The protag is a police officer assigned to riot control.)
Heh heh. Let’s try that again:
I spread my arms wide and leaned into the oncoming mass, blowing a whistle that was more malodorous than effective.
Per Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary:
noisome
1 : NOXIOUS, HARMFUL
2 a : offensive to the senses and especially to the sense of smell noisome garbage b : highly obnoxious or objectionable noisome habits
synonyms see MALODOROUS
Tags: crits/reviews, words | Filed in Reading, Writing
Posted by Sandra on March 9, 2007 | Comments closed
Books read in 2006
Fiction only, alpha by author.
- Alexander, Alma: Changer of Days
- Baird, Alison: The Stone of the Stars
- Bear, Elizabeth: Hammered
- Bear, Elizabeth: Scardown
- Bear, Elizabeth: Worldwired
- Bell, Hilari: Fall of a Kingdom
- Bell, Hilari: Rise of a Hero
- Betancourt, John Gregory: The Dragon Sorcerer
- Bishop, K. J.: The Etched City
- Black, Holly: Tithe
(more . . .)
Tags: books read | Filed in Reading
Posted by Sandra on January 26, 2007 | Comments closed