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Spring Cleaning! Well sort of... 
28th-Apr-2008 06:26 pm
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Even in Spring break Mondays are bad days. First off it rains and it’s so cold in the house, since we did the smartest thing ever, aka remove the coal burning stove we used for the winter, thus getting a bath I impossible unless your cold tolerance is extreme. Bad part is that we need it since, today we spent around 7 hours taking down the old wallpapers from the walls. Mission “Spring Cleaning” was supposed to be easy enough. Unfortunately it was not and now my back hurts like every other part of my body.

I am pretty pissed at my dad, since the lazy man spent these 7 hours in the other part of the house and did absolutely nothing! Yes, he did absolutely nothing. I repeat nothing apart from resting himself, because he was oh-so-tired to the brink of exhaustion, since he prepared lunch. I proposed to my mom to give him as a late birthday gift an apron saying “The woman in the House” since my mom wears pants way more often anyways. Every day I ask myself the question “Will I become like this, when I get old?”. Quite frankly it’s worse than the scariest zombie horror movie.

Anyways in between rooms we managed to organize all the books we owned, my mother and me, and due to all the new books and other items we have collected recently we had to say bye to a great part of those books. My mother has over 300 titles in her personal library, most of them in Russian, so with a heavy heart she has to donate a lot, near 100 of those to the city library. My books ran up to nearly 70, which are not as much as I would like to have, but I have read more than 70 I assure you! So because of the whole review blogging I am saying bye to exactly the half. It’s painful! So painful! The good part is that they are going to a friend of mine, who enjoys fantasy, so the thought that they will be loves is soothing.

Good news for today is that I contacted Solaris and received an e-mail today regarding my request to review for them. The answer is affirmative, so soon I will have books to read. Yum! Thanks to Dolce Bellezza I will be receiving a very early birthday present in the form of “Inkheart” and I am pleased to know that John Joseph Adams will send me his anthology “Wastelands”. On a side note I will be guest blogging at The Book Swede so Chris will be sending me more books. All in all, I won’t be bored soon.

Today I hosted my interview with Kristopher Reisz over at Temple Library Reviews and for my LJ people, always wanting to know more, the treat is in the usual places HERE and THERE. Sadly though, I failed to write my review of “Taste of Night” by Vicki Pettersson. Well there is always tomorrow for that as well.

{PS: Amazing art is provided from the deviant art gallery of Jessica Oyhenart aka tattereddreams}
Comments 
28th-Apr-2008 04:58 pm (UTC)
Congrats on your new reviewer job! :D
28th-Apr-2008 05:00 pm (UTC)
I'm certainly spreading around the web like a virus. Hear me infect! *giggle*
28th-Apr-2008 07:14 pm (UTC)
I'm exhausted just reading about everything you did today. Yay for getting the book review job! You'll do great with it.
28th-Apr-2008 07:19 pm (UTC)
I know! I am tired as hell, but in such a perky mood. I won't be having a loss of interesting books these days!
28th-Apr-2008 07:28 pm (UTC)
Oh sigh, brighter days will arrive! Congrats on that new review!
29th-Apr-2008 07:59 am (UTC)
I am so excited. You know what this means. Through the review blog I will better acquianted with publisher houses, authors and what's new. Later when I decide to publish me novels it can open doors.
29th-Apr-2008 12:47 pm (UTC)
Remember we little folk. Remember.
29th-Apr-2008 12:51 pm (UTC)
I meant it as a joke, although I considered that for a brief moment. everything helps at one time or another. Quite frankly I am happy right now that today I wrote 2K. I am back!
29th-Apr-2008 12:53 pm (UTC)
Oh yay! 2k is a great number! I'm finishing up a paranormal romance and then planning to write some today. Yep, that's my plan. ;-)
29th-Apr-2008 12:57 pm (UTC)
Good for you! I have a paranormal romance series that ia m planing to write soon. They are one of those sexy ideas that I came up with. There are gonna be so many machos inside. Hah!
28th-Apr-2008 08:15 pm (UTC)
Happy almost birthday!
Mondays, point blank always suck.
I like the second picture,
About giving away your books you can now buy more, though!
29th-Apr-2008 08:01 am (UTC)
Thanks! My birthday is actually the 16th July, but well it matters how I feel on the matter.

Yes, Mondays suck, but I personally favor the first picture. The detail there is amazing.

Oh yes, with my review responsibilities I get books, lots and lots of new books!
28th-Apr-2008 10:51 pm (UTC)
Wow, you did a lot today! Congrats on the new review job!! That's fantastic!! Sorry you have to get rid of so many books, but at least now you have room for more!!
29th-Apr-2008 08:02 am (UTC)
I did it for that purpose exactly, but well I am gonna read the latest and greatest from the fantasy genres so it's not that bad.
28th-Apr-2008 11:07 pm (UTC)
Ooo, congrats on the reviewer job!

Parting with all those books though... too painful to think about. You poor, poor thing. *hug*
29th-Apr-2008 07:57 am (UTC)
I know. The funny thing is that I called my friend and asked whether she had space for about 10 fantasy books and she said affirmative. Now I am gonna give her 35 books and hopefully she won't kill me.

My review job is kicking so well. Free books! Free books!
29th-Apr-2008 08:06 pm (UTC)
Every day I ask myself the question “Will I become like this, when I get old?”

If you're asking that question, I'm confident it won't happen.
29th-Apr-2008 08:24 pm (UTC)
Thanks for saying that. I keep remiding myself these things, but whenyou have it the gene bank, you have to wonder.
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