"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves." - EM Forster

New Year Goals (Just Do It)

1. Fear not.
2. Read more.
3. Buy less.
4. Try harder.
5. Think bigger.

Hello, 2011!!!!!

STANFORD BEAT UCONN!!!!

And it was a thing of beauty. Score: 71-59.

Stanford's women's basketball team was the last team to beat UConn in the NCAA Final Four in early April 2008 and they ended UConn's record-breaking 90 game winning streak tonight (Thursday night). The game also marks the Cardinals's 52 consecutive win at home.

Updates

1. My hands are freezing.

2. I'm super behind on my novel.

3. I hate reviewing books.

4. I'm taking a blogging break until December at the earliest.

5. I finished The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan. My least favorite book of hers, but I just started rereading The Hundred Secret Senses my favorite Amy Tan.

PS I just realized that midnight has come and gone and it's now Thanksgiving. I was going to make a list of everything I'm thankful for, but I decided that everything on the list was kind of generic. Although, I do want to say I'm so thankful for my parents. They're the best.

So here's a little video from one of the HIMYM (How I Met Your Mother) Thanksgiving episodes. 

This show is keeping me sane. Not watching it? Start right now.

How to use an apostrophe.

A nice reminder for everyone. 

I'm currently several thousand words behind on my NaNoWriMo novel, so apostrophes are the least of my worries. However, I'm sure there are some people out there who are ahead in the word count, or not doing NaNoWriMo at all who will find this useful. 

Ten Rules for Writing Fiction

This article is great. I especially love Margaret Atwood's, Neil Gaiman's and Helen Simpson's bits of advice.

I LOVE Wishbone. I used to watch it with my grandpa when I stayed with him and my grandma every summer. They only had basic cable so I watched a lot of reruns of I Love Lucy and PBS. I wish they would release the series on DVD so I wouldn't have to save all the episodes on my TiVo.

Also, Happy Halloween!!!

Image from Jacobsen Architecture

This photo combines my love of white bedrooms with my love of bookcases. Perfection.

This is a sickness

But the very best kind of sickness.

from tumblr

from tumblr

It's National Book Month. One of my goals for the month is to try and finish at least 7 books (that will bring my total to 50 books read this year). Definitely doable with the read-a-thon coming up.