Tag: books

Got my life semi-planned out, book wise, until the time period where I foresee moving usurping a large chunk of my down time.

The schedule goes as follows:

1. Mr. Funderburk Meets 5A, by Terry Markoff
Done by 30 June

2. Thieves of the Flame, by Audrey Scheid
Done by 5 July

3. Project E.D.E.N., by B. Mauritz
Done by 14 July

4. Pie Girls, by Lauren Clark
Done by 30 July

5. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
Done by 9 August

6. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
Done by 20 August

7. God Bless You, Mr Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut
Done by 15 September

8. Naked Pictures of Famous People, by Jon Stewart
Done by 21 September

9. An East End Farewell, by Yvette Venables
Done by 17 December

10. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, by David Sedaris
Done by 19 December

11. Here on Earth, by Alice Hoffman
Done by 24 December

12. Hiroshima, by John Hersey
Done by 27 December

13. Will Grayson, Meet Will Grayson, by John Green & David Levithan
Done by 1 January

14. Sleeping Murder, by Agatha Christie
Done by 4 January

15. Notes From A Small Island, by Bill Bryson
Done by 9 January

16. Iron Promises, by C.S. Marks
Done by 11 January

17. Void, by Rhiannon Lassiter
Done by 11 January

18. Fallen Embers, by C.S. Marks
Done by 12 January

19. The Fire King, by C.S. Marks
Done by 13 January

20. Shadow-Man, by C.S. Marks
Done by 15 January

21. Nine Stories, by J.D. Salinger
Done by 18 January

22. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
Done by 22 January

23. Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, by Chelsea Handler
Done by 26 January

24. The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle
Done by 29 January

25. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt
Done by 4 February

26. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
Done by 9 February

27. I’m Not A Serial Killer, by Dan Wells
Done by 13 February

28. Angel on the Square, by Gloria Whelan
Done by 17 February

29. The Brasspounder, by D.G. Sanders
Done by 19 February

30. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
Done by 24 February

This excludes that somewhere in there I read The Grey Bastards, by Jonathan French. It was awesome, and he’s awesome. Consider picking it up some time.

fimbulvetr-now:

fimbulvetr-now:

Alright so here’s the deal: I have a lot of books. A lot a lot of books. And now it looks fairly certain that we’ll be moving back to England when our lease is up at the end of January. PANIC MODE IS OFFICIALLY INITIATED.

What does this have to do with you? Well, it means I currently have a lot of books that need to go! So I’m having a book giveaway because this is better than giving them back to the thrift shops. Wanted to try a book out but couldn’t afford it? Now’s your chance! Want to try something entirely different? What an opportunity! Don’t have enough books? Of course you fucking don’t! Have enough books? Don’t fucking lie!

I will ship this shit pretty much anywhere. If you have any questions about whether or not I’ll ship to whatever rock you live under, just feel free to ask!

Rules:

  1. You gotta be following me. I ain’t quite that charitable that I’ll give away shit to strangers, y’see.
  2. Likes do not count. Only reblogs count.
  3. Multiple reblogs are allowed; I will literally never turn down extra exposure to more people I can irritate.
  4. Deadline is 11:59pm EST on 7 December, 2015. Reblogs after that receive only my appreciation, not my consideration.
  5. Three (3) randomly selected winners will be announced by no later than 5:00pm EST 10 December, 2015. You’ll be tagged in the announcement post, so make sure to check on that shit.
  6. I am only giving away books. Don’t ask for any of the props in the pictures cause that’s all they are.
  7. Don’t like how I categorised the books? Great! Send me an ask and tell me how far I had my head up my ass! They will be answered publicly.

Prizes:

  • First Prize – Four (4) books of your choice. You get first pick.
  • Second Prize – Three (3) books of your choice. You get to choose after the first winner.
  • Third Prize – Two (2) books of your choice. You choose from what’s left over.

The Books:

That Really Happened! (Nonfiction):

  1. In The Beginning…Was The Command Line, by Neal Stephenson
  2. The Confessions of St Augustine
  3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
  4. Knuckle Sandwich, by Jason Peacock
  5. Enough is Enough, Get Control of Your Stuff!, by Wendy Ellin
  6. A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
  7. I’m A Stranger Here Myself, by Bill Bryson

For the Kid in All of Us (YA/Children’s):

  1. Holes, by Louis Sachar
  2. A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
  3. Be An Interplanatary Spy: Red Rocket, by Seth McEvoy
  4. Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
  5. Holes, by Louis Sachar
  6. The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
  7. Mr Funderburk Meets 5A, by Terry Markoff
  8. Thieves of the Flame, by Audrey Schied
  9. project e.d.e.n., by B Mauritz

Famous Dead White Guys…and one really good African author!
(The Classics/School Summer Reading List):

  1. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  2. Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare
  3. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
  4. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

All Others:

  1. The Old Dog Barks Backwards, by Ogden Nash
  2. Jack & Jill, by James Patterson
  3. Naked Pictures of Famous People, by Jon Stewart
  4. The Green Mile, by Stephen King

guys please i am literally trying to give you free shit work with me here

Y’all got one more day to get your reblogs in. These are real actual books, that really exist, and people have received lovely books from me before. C’mon there’s really no catch I just don’t want these to get destroyed in a thrift shop and desperately need to get rid of them.

fimbulvetr-now:

Alright so here’s the deal: I have a lot of books. A lot a lot of books. And now it looks fairly certain that we’ll be moving back to England when our lease is up at the end of January. PANIC MODE IS OFFICIALLY INITIATED.

What does this have to do with you? Well, it means I currently have a lot of books that need to go! So I’m having a book giveaway because this is better than giving them back to the thrift shops. Wanted to try a book out but couldn’t afford it? Now’s your chance! Want to try something entirely different? What an opportunity! Don’t have enough books? Of course you fucking don’t! Have enough books? Don’t fucking lie!

I will ship this shit pretty much anywhere. If you have any questions about whether or not I’ll ship to whatever rock you live under, just feel free to ask!

Rules:

  1. You gotta be following me. I ain’t quite that charitable that I’ll give away shit to strangers, y’see.
  2. Likes do not count. Only reblogs count.
  3. Multiple reblogs are allowed; I will literally never turn down extra exposure to more people I can irritate.
  4. Deadline is 11:59pm EST on 7 December, 2015. Reblogs after that receive only my appreciation, not my consideration.
  5. Three (3) randomly selected winners will be announced by no later than 5:00pm EST 10 December, 2015. You’ll be tagged in the announcement post, so make sure to check on that shit.
  6. I am only giving away books. Don’t ask for any of the props in the pictures cause that’s all they are.
  7. Don’t like how I categorised the books? Great! Send me an ask and tell me how far I had my head up my ass! They will be answered publicly.

Prizes:

  • First Prize – Four (4) books of your choice. You get first pick.
  • Second Prize – Three (3) books of your choice. You get to choose after the first winner.
  • Third Prize – Two (2) books of your choice. You choose from what’s left over.

The Books:

That Really Happened! (Nonfiction):

  1. In The Beginning…Was The Command Line, by Neal Stephenson
  2. The Confessions of St Augustine
  3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
  4. Knuckle Sandwich, by Jason Peacock
  5. Enough is Enough, Get Control of Your Stuff!, by Wendy Ellin
  6. A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
  7. I’m A Stranger Here Myself, by Bill Bryson

For the Kid in All of Us (YA/Children’s):

  1. Holes, by Louis Sachar
  2. A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
  3. Be An Interplanatary Spy: Red Rocket, by Seth McEvoy
  4. Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
  5. Holes, by Louis Sachar
  6. The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
  7. Mr Funderburk Meets 5A, by Terry Markoff
  8. Thieves of the Flame, by Audrey Schied
  9. project e.d.e.n., by B Mauritz

Famous Dead White Guys…and one really good African author!
(The Classics/School Summer Reading List):

  1. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  2. Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare
  3. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
  4. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

All Others:

  1. The Old Dog Barks Backwards, by Ogden Nash
  2. Jack & Jill, by James Patterson
  3. Naked Pictures of Famous People, by Jon Stewart
  4. The Green Mile, by Stephen King

guys please i am literally trying to give you free shit work with me here

Alright so here’s the deal: I have a lot of books. A lot a lot of books. And now it looks fairly certain that we’ll be moving back to England when our lease is up at the end of January. PANIC MODE IS OFFICIALLY INITIATED.

What does this have to do with you? Well, it means I currently have a lot of books that need to go! So I’m having a book giveaway because this is better than giving them back to the thrift shops. Wanted to try a book out but couldn’t afford it? Now’s your chance! Want to try something entirely different? What an opportunity! Don’t have enough books? Of course you fucking don’t! Have enough books? Don’t fucking lie!

I will ship this shit pretty much anywhere. If you have any questions about whether or not I’ll ship to whatever rock you live under, just feel free to ask!

Rules:

  1. You gotta be following me. I ain’t quite that charitable that I’ll give away shit to strangers, y’see.
  2. Likes do not count. Only reblogs count.
  3. Multiple reblogs are allowed; I will literally never turn down extra exposure to more people I can irritate.
  4. Deadline is 11:59pm EST on 7 December, 2015. Reblogs after that receive only my appreciation, not my consideration.
  5. Three (3) randomly selected winners will be announced by no later than 5:00pm EST 10 December, 2015. You’ll be tagged in the announcement post, so make sure to check on that shit.
  6. I am only giving away books. Don’t ask for any of the props in the pictures cause that’s all they are.
  7. Don’t like how I categorised the books? Great! Send me an ask and tell me how far I had my head up my ass! They will be answered publicly.

Prizes:

  • First Prize – Four (4) books of your choice. You get first pick.
  • Second Prize – Three (3) books of your choice. You get to choose after the first winner.
  • Third Prize – Two (2) books of your choice. You choose from what’s left over.

The Books:

That Really Happened! (Nonfiction):

  1. In The Beginning…Was The Command Line, by Neal Stephenson
  2. The Confessions of St Augustine
  3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
  4. Knuckle Sandwich, by Jason Peacock
  5. Enough is Enough, Get Control of Your Stuff!, by Wendy Ellin
  6. A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
  7. I’m A Stranger Here Myself, by Bill Bryson

For the Kid in All of Us (YA/Children’s):

  1. Holes, by Louis Sachar
  2. A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
  3. Be An Interplanatary Spy: Red Rocket, by Seth McEvoy
  4. Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
  5. Holes, by Louis Sachar
  6. The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
  7. Mr Funderburk Meets 5A, by Terry Markoff
  8. Thieves of the Flame, by Audrey Schied
  9. project e.d.e.n., by B Mauritz

Famous Dead White Guys…and one really good African author!
(The Classics/School Summer Reading List):

  1. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  2. Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare
  3. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
  4. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

All Others:

  1. The Old Dog Barks Backwards, by Ogden Nash
  2. Jack & Jill, by James Patterson
  3. Naked Pictures of Famous People, by Jon Stewart
  4. The Green Mile, by Stephen King

hearningcurve:

Alright so here’s the deal: I have a lot of books. A lot a lot of books. Not to fear, though! Husband got me a Kindle for Crimbo. So I’ve been working to replace a lot of my physical books with electronic copies.

What does this have to do with you? Well, it means I currently have a lot of books that need to go! So I’m having a book giveaway because this is better than giving them back to the thrift shops. Wanted to try a new author out? Now’s your chance! Want to try something entirely different? What an opportunity! Don’t have enough books? Of course you don’t! Have enough books? Don’t lie!

I will ship this shit pretty much anywhere. If you have any questions about whether or not I’ll ship to whatever rock you live under, just feel free to ask!

Rules:

  1. You gotta be following me. I ain’t quite that charitable that I’ll give away shit to strangers, y’see.
  2. Likes do not count. Only reblogs count.
  3. Multiple reblogs are allowed; I will literally never turn down extra exposure to more people I can irritate.
  4. Deadline is 11:59pm EST on 31 October, 2015. Reblogs after that receive only my appreciation, not my consideration.
  5. Three (3) randomly selected winners will be announced by no later than 5:00pm EST 3 November 2015. You’ll be tagged in the announcement post, so make sure to check on that shit.
  6. I am only giving away books. Don’t ask for any of the props in the pictures cause that’s all they are.
  7. Don’t like how I categorised the books? Great! Send me an ask and tell me how far I had my head up my ass! They will be answered publicly.

Prizes:

  • First Prize – Three (3) books of your choice. You get first pick.
  • Second Prize – Two (2) books of your choice. You get to choose after the first winner.
  • Third Prize – One (1) book of your choice. You choose from what’s left over.

The Books:

That Really Happened! (Nonfiction)

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  1. In The Beginning…Was The Command Line, by Neal Stephenson
  2. The Confessions of St Augustine
  3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
  4. Knuckle Sandwich, by Jason Peacock
  5. Enough is Enough, Get Control of Your Stuff!, by Wendy Ellin

For the Kid in All of Us (YA/Children’s)

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  1. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope, by Lemony Snicket
  2. A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
  3. Be An Interplanatary Spy: Red Rocket, by Seth McEvoy
  4. Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
  5. Holes, by Louis Sachar
  6. Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer
  7. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, by Eoin Colfer
  8. Mr Funderburk Meets 5A, by Terry Markoff
  9. Thieves of the Flame, by Audrey Schied
  10. project e.d.e.n., by B Mauritz

Famous Dead White Guys (The Classics/School Summer Reading List):

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  1. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  2. Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare
  3. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
  4. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut

All Others

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  1. The Old Dog Barks Backwards, by Ogden Nash
  2. Jack & Jill, by James Patterson
  3. Naked Pictures of Famous People, by Jon Stewart

Moved my book giveaways to my authorly blog, so go over there to take advantage of it!

FIMSY’S 2015 READING LIST

The bolded ones are titles I’ve already read before at some point. I want to reread them because it’s been awhile and I have a (probably) better perspective from which to approach them.

Additionally, I am setting myself a solid rule that I am not to buy any more books so that after I complete this list I can finally get myself an e-reader of some kind. It’ll be my reward for reading so much. because Husband got me a Kindle paperwhite yippee!!!

1. A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
2. Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich, by Ladislas Farago
3. Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, by Anonymous
4. Angel On The Square, by Gloria Whelan
5. Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea,  by Chelsea Handler
6. Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
7. Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer
8. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, by Eoin Colfer
9. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
10. Beowulf, by Anonymous
11. Better for All The World, by Harry Bruinius
12. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
13. Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith
14. City of Dark Magic, by Magnus Flyte
15. Collapse, by Jared Diamond
16. Dead World Omnibus
17. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney
18. Don’t Stop me Now, by Jeremy Clarkson
19. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
20. Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
21. Flowers In The Attic, by V.C. Andrews
22. Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
23. God Bless You, M. Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut
24. Hamlet, by Shakespeare
25. Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
26. Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
27. Here On Earth, by Alice Hoffman
28. Hiroshima, by John Hersey
29. Holes, by Louis Sachar
30. House of Leaves, by Mark Z Danielewski
31. I Am Not A Serial Killer, by Dan Wells
32. I’m A Stranger Here Myself, by Bill Bryson
33. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne
34. Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare
35. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
36. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
37. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
38. Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
39. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt
40. Modern Germany, by V. R. Berghahn
41. Mother Tongue, by Bill Bryson
42. Official Secrets, by Richard Breitman
43. Only Revolutions, by Mark Z Danielewski
44. Othello, by Shakespeare
45. Reckless Hands, by Victoria Nourse
46. Rocket Boys, by Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
47. Roman Civilization, by J.P.V.D. Balsdon
48. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard
49. Sex Race and Science, by Edward Larson
50. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
51. Sleeping Murder, by Agatha Christie
52. Some Girls: My Life In A Harem, by Jillian Lauren
53. The American Warrior, by Chris Morris and Janet Morris
54. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
55. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
56. The Best Short Stories of Dostoyevsky
57. The Casual Vacancy, by JK Rowling
58. The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau
59. The Confessions of Saint Augustine, translated by Rex Warner
60. The Dialogues of Time and Entropy, by Aryeh Lev Stollman
61. The Green Mile, by Stephen King
62. The Gunslinger, by Stephen King
63. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
64. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
65. The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
66. The History of the Franks, by Gregory of Tours
67. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
68. The Hound of The Baskervilles, by A. Conan Doyle
69. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
70. The Iliad, by Homer
71. The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littell
72. The Monster of Florence, by Douglas Preston
73. The Nazi Hunters, by Neal Bascomb
74. The Old Dog Barks Backwards, by Ogden Nash
75. The Oster Conspiracy of 1938, by Terry Parssinen
76. The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton
77. The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain
78. The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
79. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
80. The Rook, by Daniel O’Malley
81. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
82. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
83. Torchwood: The Men Who Sold The World, by Guy Adams
84. Void, by Rhiannon Lassiter
85. Water For Elephants, by Sara Gruen
86. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
87. World War Z, by Max Brooks
88. Naked Pictures of Famous People, by Jon Stewart
89. America’s Least Competent Criminals, by Chuck Shepherd
90. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
91. Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay
92. Dexter in the Dark, by Jeff Lindsay
93. Pie Girls, by Lauren Clark
94. The Exiled Heir, by Jonathan French

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fragenherrdoktor:

The Sick Rose by Richard Barnett is a collection of 19th-century medical illustrations. Prior to the use of photography, these images were used to capture the gruesome diseases of the era in painstakingly beautiful detail. Meticulous illustrations were an essential tool for educating students and helping doctors of the day diagnose and record ailments.

Purchase your copy here.

I feel morbid for wanting a copy.