An Abundance of Books discussion

Hi everyone.

I decided to make this thread for general discussions, chatter, rants about how horrible your day has been.

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Today I was handed a pack of gummies that are supposed to give you energy(they're called power-something) and I ate one and my sister gave me four more. A while later, I didn't feel so good and my cousin told me that the gummies had a warning saying that it wasn't supposed to be for people 18 and under because of how much caffeine they had. That was my first and hopefully only caffeine overdose. Besides that, my day was pretty good

Wow... that's actually pretty scary.

My life is pretty average, and having something like that happen to me is rare:p It's pretty weird how ordinary life can seem then something's weird happens

I know right.

Does anyone have any special plans for Christmas?

Not really. It's going to be the same Christmas from last year.

Aw, well I hope it's fun and you have a lot of time to read!

My extended family lives far far away and won't be able to visit on Christmas, so instead of the big, crazy, hectic madhouse of a holiday that I'm used to (that I miss) it'll be a quiet get together with my immediate family. We'll laugh and love and make the most of the holiday, and go out of our way not to mention how homesick we are.
Sorry. That sounds depressing. I'm looking forward to Christmas. I really am. I really think even though my funds have been ridiculously tight I've found some crowd-pleasers presents this year.
And let's be honest- no one really cares about the gifts as long as my family spends the day together... driving each other crazy. Wouldn't be the holidays otherwise.

Hey everyone. Just wanted to let you know that I launched my book blog (finally!) after forever of setting it up and getting everything to go smoothly.

Check it out here. It would mean a lot to me if you checked it out and told me what you thought!

It looks great. I love the purple.

Haha thanks guys :)

I agree, it looks awesome! And I love the watercolor :) My one critique is that Pinterest is misspelled - sorry, I'm a bit of a grammar/spelling nazi (not to mention a bit OCD) so I can't resist!

Oh wow I just realized that. Thanks! I'll fix it tomorrow :)

How were all of your Christmases??? Anyone get any book related presents?

X-mas was amazing. Most of my gifts were books (my loved ones know me so well). I've already finished one and am halfway through another. Oh yeah, X-mas was amazing.

Wow, which book did you already finish :)

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. It's a sequel to The Shining. I couldn't put it down.
How about you? Did you get all the books you needed?
(Books, like oxygen, are a need not a want).

Haha, that they are.

I got a John Green box set from my parents and a total of $75 in gift cards to B&N from my relatives, so I'm pretty happy. I'm going to go on a total book haul soon.

I could lose my mind in B&N with a $75 gift card. Although knowing me I'd spend the gift card and then $50 of my own money.

Haha, yup... that's actually what might happen to me too. o.O

The road is treacherous, but there's no better way to spend the day than surrounded by books.

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one" - George R. R. Martin

While we are on the topic of book quotes XD

“You're never alone when you're reading a book.”
― Susan Wiggs

I'm always surrounded by friends.

My parents gave me a kindle for Christmas, which is great... except for the fact that I'm kind of strongly opposed to kindles. I totally see why an electronic reader is a logical and convenient thing to use, but I just really prefer real books! Soo I'm still not sure how I feel about it. They gave me an amazon gift card to go with it and I'm really tempted to use part of it to buy actual books...is that terrible?

Of course it isn't! I prefer physical copies as well. I just love the feel of paper in my hands (and the smell of books.... yeah, I'm weird).

I have a kindle as well and actually, I've grown to like it. I've been going on vacations a lot lately and I think it's great that I can take 50 books with me in my purse.

Ha yeah, avoiding my usual habit of lugging around a giant bag of books on vacation will be nice. My issue so far is that if I really really want a book, then I want the physical copy. But if I don't want to read it as badly then I don't want to spend money on it! As a result, so far I've just downloaded a bunch of classics for free, and I've only actually spent 99 cents! :)

Just wanted to congratulate our new mods!

Alyssa will be our Game Manager. She will help keep our games active and start new ones every once in a while.

Berglind Lilja will be our Challenge Manager. She will create new fun challenges for you guys!

Welcome to the team.

Just wanted to wish everyone a HAPU new year! We will be starting The Lottery and Code Name Verity tomorrow. :)

I'm so excited my library had Code Name Verity. I've got it and can't wait to read it.

By near-coincidence (it was on my goodreads wishlist), I just got Code Name Verity for my birthday - how convenient!! :)

And now, some poetry:
Wow
Such new
Very years
Much eve
So ball drop
Many celebrate
2013 much end

Happy new year!

Happy new year, you guys!! I have New Years here yet I have an hour and five minutes left

Yeah me too. Pacific coast issues... :) you watching Rocking eve?

That's why the East Coast is lucky. The same goes for Australia, I think:)
Yep, I am. I can't wait until the whole entire 10987654321 thing.

Just a note, we now have more games created than Goodreads will show on the home page. To see all the games, click on the word Games in the navigation page. Lets keep all of them active! :)

Hey guys! :)

Hi :) welcome

Thanks. I'm so bored right now even though I have a ton of homework I'm supposed to be working on.

Anyway, what's up?

I'm bored even though I'm at work and have more than one project to do.

Haha yeah I know what that's like.

Finally a day off. I have errands to run. A house to clean. Instead I spent nearly three hours at the library. Today has been a good day.

:) today was my first day back at school. My school has a used book store down the block and I'm one of their favorite customers. Almost no one had gone in for the past 2 weeks, so I was able to find 16 books on my TBR list there. 16. I bought 16 new books.... I still can't believe it.

@Ashley Lucky you! I haven't been able to find any good used bookstores near me. I did a BN book haul, I went a little overboard and bought 16 books. What books did you buy?

The Host, 5 Tolkien books, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, A Million Little Pieces, City of Bones, The Lightning Thief, and some other books for school. ;)

@Ashley I'm jealous there are no used bookstores near me. I'm glad you had fun.

Those are awesome books!Happy reading!

We just hit 50 members!

I've started a yearlong challenge on my website! It's called Book Bingo. Check it out here - http://lumosbooks.weebly.com/book-bin...

Much appreciated!

You should all check out the February Mini Challenge! :)

It looks awesome! Good job!