Thursday, April 25, 2013

the words: they're everything and nothing I want

I got me a Kindle and the Kindle pleased me so I sometimes typed under yonder tree and the Kindle goes

Good. And like it sorry about the same idea how to get started with the no st century and I was looking for a while cream of the ward is a disaster but I have no idea how to get started with the no
Because sometimes I can't resist the temptation to just tap on the words it suggests. I find the touch keyboard tiresome (I'm not that bad, but it is definitely cutting my wpm down by more than 50%) but the predictive text makes me so much quicker! The downside often is that I don't make sense anymore.
The problem is a success story is Watch it on my blog fortuitous that I am a bad thing at a real keyboard and the thumbnail true that I have a nice to be creative commons FlickrBlog and the host a lot left it is not a very easy cross st and the thumbnail true 
Also my Kindle sometimes thinks it's smarter than me and knows what topics of conversation I'll want to have. There must be a lot of Kindle users that often discuss thumbnails, creative commons, and FlickrBlog, but I'm only one of them when I'm playing this game. (When I type "Jessica" it suggests "Simpson", another culture niche I don't belong to.)

Usually I'm playing this game late at night, after some frustrating tapping. The people with whom I converse don't like this game so much, probably because it makes me look certifiably insane, and it's uncomfortable to talk to crazy people.
I'm taking that as an invitation to be creative commons FlickrBlog and the thumbnail true that I have a nice to be creative commons FlickrBlog to get a good story and also karma to get the thumbnail format for you have of a pain and also my list today on your way around it but I'm really looking at a very f2f and also the making it is adding that he did write about to tackle climate change

Last night I sent my sister an email with three kinds of predictive text. In the first paragraph I chose the word Kindle most strongly suggested; in the second, the next suggestion. And in the third paragraph I chose the last. Typically I stop when it looks like I am about to start a loop, but the least likely suggestion never led to a loop so I just stopped when I got to a good stopping place.

Here is a note from autocorrect.

Here is a disaster but I have a nice to be creative commons FlickrBlog and the thumbnail true that I have a nice

Here are the thumbnail to this pic I am not a status basically go shopping because of my constant and I have no access the making it home before you can be an hour and I have no access

Here you have to wait and the Titanic the time tonight show the time to learn those three and the Titanic to go out driving but the making a little more successful and also my blog and also karma the time tonight and also the thumbnail format you'd moved into my list today and also my advice and also karma is the thumbnail format for a quick look good story now we are a lot but the last batch file is not one to the Jordan and it autocorrect the time to get a little bit not have been embarrassed if someone who episode is not quite like a grown-up and also the kind words of wisdom is the very next to be the first one is the most important that the making a lot but maybe some other plans except perhaps a few seconds of my earlier self esteem to get the making it a few hours I was going through wise and also my list that is working with a cashier's and also karma the making a joke that was the thumbnail to get a lot left the time I had the making it is a piano music video for you and your loans for you have of me but it almost seems too picky
 It's interesting to me to see what this says about my Kindle-typing habits as well as the predictive software they use. Maybe I'm the only one that can tell the difference ('fortuitous' is definitely my contribution).

Favorite phrases:

cream of the ward is a disaster
The problem is a success story
fortuitous that I am a bad thing at a real keyboard
to get a good story and also karma
and also the making it is adding that he did write about to tackle climate change
I am not a status basically go shopping
time to learn those three and the Titanic to go out driving
and also my blog and also karma
embarrassed if someone who episode is not quite like a grown-up
a few seconds of my earlier self esteem
working with a cashier's and also karma
it almost seems too picky
It's completely nonsensical but addicting! Is this how Nigerian Princes feel?


(Title Text: Recessional ~ Vienna Teng, and only slightly modified from a previous post's title)

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

I can trace all my books [2013: Q1]

I bet you all thought I'd forgotten about this! I hadn't (though I did forget to post yesterday). I just thought I'd  let my lists accumulate a little before I posted them. Here's my books from the first three months of the year, with annotation:


January
1. Resurrection Row by Anne Perry
2. Long Spoon Lane by Anne Perry
3. The Widow of Larkspur Inn by Lawana Blackwell
4. Half Moon Street by Anne Perry
5. Daughter of Joy by Kathleen Morgan
6. Once Upon a Diamond by Teresa McCarthy
7. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
8. Sammy Keyes and the Showdown in Sin City by Wendelin van Draanen
9. The Boy on Cinnamon Street by Phoebe Stone

February
10. The God Who Weeps by Terryl and Fiona Givens
11. Scent of Magic by Maria V. Snyder
12. A Curse Dark As Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce
13. Shadows and Secrets (Annals of Wynnewood) by Chautona Havig
14. Confessions of a Serial Kisser by Wendelin van Draanen
15. The Red Blazer Girls: The Secret Cellar by Michael D. Beil
16. Penelope (A Mad Cap Regency Romance) by Anya Wylde
17. Foundation by Mercedes Lackey
18. Home From the Sea by Mercedes Lackey
19. A Time for Peace by Barbara Cameron
20. Entwined by Heather Dixon
21. One Drink by Max Florschutz

March
22. Kate's Kisses by Mary Manners
23. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
24. The Pledge by Kimberly Derting
25. Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst
26. Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
27. Welcome to Fred by Brad Whittington
28. Always a Witch by Carolyn McCullough
29. The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
30. Sunshine Hunter by Maddie Cochere
31. Splintered by A. G. Howard
32. Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger
33. Understanding the Book of Mormon by Grant Hardy
34. Twice Upon a Time: The Only One that Didn't Run Away by Wendy Mass
35. The Seer and the Sword by Victoria Hanley

Standout recommendations:
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo -- I didn't think I wanted to read this one because I don't like shadows or bones, but it turns out the book isn't really about that! It's about friendship and love or something. It's another "character discovers she has special talent that could save or destroy her world" book that I thought was well done.
Sammy Keyes and the Showdown in Sin City by Wendelin van Draanen -- I liked it. I've followed this series for a long time. You have to read all the others first, though, so you may not want to start with this one. (Okay, you don't have to. But your life will be better if you do.)
The God Who Weeps by Terryl and Fiona Givens -- A new and interesting perspective on Mormonism! Very intellectual and stuff but still a fairly quick read.
A Curse Dark As Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce -- Remember when I said that I loved this book but needed to read it again to remember it? So I read it again and this was my take-away: for the first half or two-thirds I could not stop. The book was glued to my hands. Around the time I started disagreeing with her choices was the time I stopped being as invested in the story, but it still wrapped up well.
Entwined by Heather Dixon -- Another book I was recommending without remembering how it was. About the opposite of previous I wasn't that invested for the first half, but then it got interesting enough to finish. I still recommend it.
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater -- I really liked it. Very original (with ties to folklore nonetheless).
Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst -- I picked this book up on a Friday night with nothing else going on. I finished it that night because it literally did not leave my hands until it was over. I remember checking the time, thinking about going to bed, then remembering it was Friday and there was no harm in staying up later than 10 because I had to finish the book.
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson -- I think I read this all in one day too. I like books that take me over like that.
Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger -- I was so excited for this book. It did exactly what I hoped it would (I was in the market for light fiction, easy to read and still funny and not too emotionally harrowing).
Understanding the Book of Mormon by Grant Hardy -- it only took me three months, but I finished it! It's basically an argument for the Book of Mormon as Literature. If you're into explication of text or whatever it's called, you should read this.

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