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Tee C. Royal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 29, 2003 - 10:15 pm: | 
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I just wrote an article for a magazine on Literary Resolutions and thought I'd ask if any of you were making any?
As for me, I plan to stop beating around the bush and log my 3500+ book collection. I started a few years ago, but kept procrastinating, but I plan to do it this year! I've already purchased the software, it's just a matter of scanning in ISBN codes and then adding my notes.
-Tee |
akaivyleaf
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 01:38 pm: |
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Here are mine in no particular order:
Participate more with Online Reading Groups and Clubs - Read the "book-of-the-month" ON TIME
Increase my books ready by 10%
Write reviews within two days of reading the book
Expand my website
Keep my database up to date
Network in the AA literary Community |
Tee C. Royal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 09:46 pm: |
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Good luck to ya akaivyleaf and good seeing you around. I need to add the reviews statement to my resolutions. I'm terrible. I'll find myself at the end of the month and start scrambling to meet my quotas. It's too funny (when I look back at it, at the time it's stressful as all get out). Back in November, I had to re-read two books I had read months before to remember what in the world they were about.
I'm going to resolve to be better in that area too and also NOT to wait until the end of the month and then toss out those reviews.
I read a book last night and ummm, I can't seem to remember much about it.
-Tee |
yukio
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 05, 2004 - 12:40 am: |
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read, read, read....write, write, write..... |
Zane
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 05, 2004 - 09:34 am: |
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My Literary Resolutions for 2004 include:
Meeting all my writing deadlines with Simon and Schuster, which would be a first-LOL
Getting ahead of the game with Strebor by getting more staff, streamlining, and concentrating on developing the careers of the 28 authors I have signed to me
Opening up my bookstore on time (March 2004). I decided to call it ENDEAVORS and it is located on the waterfront in Fell's Point in Baltimore.
Keeping an actual log of the hundreds of books that I intend to read.
I have many more but those are the ones that immediately come to mind.
Peace,
Zane |
sisgal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 05, 2004 - 02:11 pm: |
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My literary resolutions:
1.To publish the book I've written.
2.To complete the two I've started.
3.To obtain representation for all three.
4.To read the stack of books on my nightstand before purchasing anymore. |
Cynique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 05, 2004 - 02:28 pm: |
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My literary resolution is to read in terms of quality rather than quantity. At this stage in my reading career, I have decided that I'm doing an author a favor by reading what they have to write. And unless they do me the favor of writing what holds my interest, I will not finish their books. I have to admit that I'm not particularly happy that what maintains my interest has become so narrow, and I'm baffled as to why I have become so absolutely possessed by the "Lord of the Rings" movies...
Well, so much for my true confessions. |
Sis E
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 05, 2004 - 06:26 pm: |
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All of the above, plus:
Lose weight,
go fishing more.
Sis Tee C. Royal, what's the name of the software you plan to use to log your books?
Sis Cynique, I went to the first and third Rings movies. I got irritated with the first one at seeing "mud people" but I enjoyed the third one. Did you hear dialogue in this third movie that sounded like it came from Bush and news coverage of the Iraq War? |
Cynique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 05, 2004 - 08:18 pm: |
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Hi Sis E,
I can see how people might interpret this legendary literature as having racist overtones, but the author who was English and served in WWI dismissed this idea. Viggo Mortensen who plays my hearthrob Aragorn has also vehmently protested the idea that these movies are comparable to America's "liberation" of Iraq and further reminded that Hitler tried to ennoble the 3rd Reich by comparing it to Nordic mythology. BTW, I thought the second movie, "The 2 Towers", was better than the first one and the last one was just awesome. Deep down inside, I know I have become immersed in this trilogy of fantasy because I am bored and disillusioned with all the BS that is goes on in the real world. |
Sis E
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 05, 2004 - 09:20 pm: |
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Sis. Cynique,
I read how Tolkien felt about the wars. It was of course the movie folks who depicted the "mud people" and the dialogue that rings of the latest war. I read Tolkien waaaaaay back in my college days, starting with The Hobbit, then several years later read them all again and was enthralled each time. I've told myself to read his books again. I just finished Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan and have mixed feelings about that one. So perhaps another literary resolution for 2004 will be for me to read more reviews before I plunk down my duckies. |
Cynique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 12:50 am: |
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Peter Jackson, the director and co-script writer of the Lord of the Rings movies is, I'm sure you know, a New Zealander, and I don't get the impression that he would be somebody who'd be promoting the misguided aggression of the USA. I think the movies are actually anti-war and anti-people who start wars. Of course, I'm just so enchanted by the whole project I can't stand to think of it as being propaganda for George Bush's politics.
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ABM
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 11:53 am: |
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Cynique,
I too admit having become quite smitten with the film depiction of Tolkien's LOTR saga. I have become so enamored with what Peter Jackson has achieved that after seeing the final LOTR installment, I have started to suffer from "Ring withdrawal". |
Cynique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 12:01 pm: |
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Yikes! A fellow Ring Junkie! All is forgiven, ABM. |
ABM
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 01:11 pm: |
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Baby, I am such a "Ring" freak, that if I ever have a son I'll probably name him "Aragon". |
Tee C. Royal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 09, 2004 - 10:55 pm: |
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Hey Sis E, sorry for the delay. The tool I have is called Readerware. You can find more information by going to: http://www.readerware.com
-Tee |
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