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A Year of Reading

For my kittens who aren't my friends on the Facebooks ... Rainy Sunday = Great day to blob on the sofa and read. These are the books I read this year: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What you Can Do About it by Anna Lappe Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith The Trajectory of Dreams by Nicole McAfee Wolverton Wool: Omnibus Edition by Hugh Howey World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks This doesn't include books that I re-read, such as the Hunger Games Trilogy, the Thursday Next series (books 1-6), among others. I have been compiling a list of books to read in 2014.  This is what I have so far: Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind by Gavin Edwards The Ma...

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 Hello, Beautiful Kittens.  I hope you had a wonderful December.  Apparently, there was a holiday or something recently.  I was in North Carolina for the aforementioned holiday.  My mother forced us all to wear elf hats as we opened presents (on Xmas Eve, because I flew back home on Xmas morning). I had a good Xmas.  I received some very nice gifts.  My parents helped to pay for my new spectacles and for another session of pottery class.  My brother and his GF gifted me with lots of colorful socks and a cookie press.  Plus some other things.  And, once I got back to DC, I had a fantastic XXXmas with M.  In addition to copious amounts of teh hot buttsecks,we watched a lot of streaming movies on the Netflix, including The Hobbit, White Christmas, and Blackfish. Yeah.  It seems like we are in it for the long haul.  He gave me Apples to Apples (which, he reminded me, we played at a game night with Mike (Who Makes Cakes...