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I decided at the beginning of the year, since I have been using my goodreads account regularly, I should create a 2009 tag so I could see how many books I read all year. And then I thought one step further, why not test myself and see if I could read 100 books this year. Back in January I thought this would be a piece of cake. I easily read that much in a year.
As it turns out, not so much. As of today I’ve only read 33 and the year is inching to being half over! And I feel like I read all day. Which is partially true considering how many blogs and online articles I read. But still! Another issue is lately I’ve been driving to work since it cuts about 30 mins off my commute. So that’s leaving me with over 2 hours less I read every day which I’ve been spending on going out and watching Supernatural. I would read more at work but it’s easier to pretend to be working when you’re staring at a computer screen. I’m feeling very book lazy lately. Part of it might be the current JOB situation. I miss my storytime internship, I really do.
But I’m determined to reach my goal so I’m going to buck up and try to finish three books before next Tuesday, Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman), Stiff (Mary Roach) and Nation (Terry Pratchett). Ambitious but I believe I can do it.
Armed with a new theme and some updated links I’m ready to go!! Again!! I always fall off the blogging wagon but I can never stay away. But I’ll ease back into it with a short post and work on more for tomorrow.
What are they doing with the Percy Jackson movie??!!?? I don’t usually approve of unnecessary punctuation but it is deserved in this case. The casting for this movie, based on a favorite series of mine by Rick Rirodan, is all over the place. You can check it all out here at the IMDB page. I have to applaud much of the casting so far, Sean Bean as Zues (oh baby, yes) Uma Thurman as Medusa, Pierce Brosnan as Chiron…so much good. A little on the fence about Steve Coogan as Hades, I like him but that role is really for a dark and brooding type, Richard Armitage comes to mind. But Coogan’s good so I’ll take. Not a bad haul so far for a kids movie right? And then it all goes down with the casting for the kids, you know, freaking Percy Jackson. I don’t have a problem with this Logan Lerman guy just that’s he’s pushing 18 and Percy’s way younger. Yes typically older teens play younger teens. But this is was suppose to be set as the next Harry Potter and they cast those kids the right age. The chick playing Annabeth? 22!! Really? Really? Rumors are swirling about major plot changes already which is very disappointing since the books already read like movies. Rirodan gave you the action, why change it? I have horrible visions of the disaster that was The Seeker. Please Hollywood, please, don’t mess this up. Please? With sugar on top?
The future Zeus, it helps me calm down.
