The Shed 2

a reply to: TrueBrit

Ugh, yeah...the heat wears me out too. It gets SO hot and humid here in the summers and I'm really grateful to live in an apartment with central air. Otherwise I'd be a puddle on the floor.

So...I feel your pain.

What kind of books do you read, if you don't mind me asking?

jacy

a reply to: jacygirl

Sometimes ya gotta do that I spose. Delete. I usually don't, and leave in my smart assed comm. If someone wants to pick it apart, I guess it's their choice. Well, maybe depends on what I wrote. I usually don't purposely tear up someone, unless they deserve it! But, such as it is here in ATS land... LOL!!!

I think I scared Homer as much as he scared me! LOL!!! (was just messin with the guy......)

I'll go stand in the corner for a time out now Homer. Sor Bud! LOL!!!!! (slinking away from the keyboard)

I got bored in the corner. I'm back.

a reply to: SyxPak

lol...I went to make a tea.

Weird how Homer was here and then *poof*...gone...
People really are disappearing.

I'm just sort of lurking everywhere now...in the shadows...

jacy

a reply to: jacygirl

Lol Jacy! Homer must be hangin with his alien buds. Drinkin Moltaric Ale, or Venusian Rama. Maybe partaking in some exotic rituals too? C'mon Homer, let us know what's up?!

a reply to: jacygirl

Well, I read hard science fiction, fantasy, sci if fantasy hybrids, spy thrillers, war novels, psychological thrillers, adventure novels, murder mysteries and so on and so forth.

Also, The Bible, the Dictionary (various), and a coffee table book of the cosmos. All the rest of the reading I do is online at the moment. I have a copy of the Brief History of Time by Hawking also. My favourite book however, has to be my paperback copy of the complete Illustrated Strand Sherlock Holmes stories. I also have a hardcover copy of all the stories, however, it is a far more cumbersome object to manipulate when one is in pursuit of a relaxing read. As a result, my paperback copy is dog eared all to heck, and the hardcover is pristine, or near enough.

a reply to: TrueBrit

True, if I may interject. I like mostly the first three ya listed, and psycho thrillers. Same for movies...... Just sayin since Jacy is hiding in the shadows at the moment. Lol!

a reply to: TrueBrit

Syx...you just made me laugh and spit my tea out!!!

True...well that is a varied selection, isn't it?
I've read so many different books too...from fiction to philosophy, etc. Sometimes when I'm talking to people...afterwards they are surprised at how much I know. (lol)
I'm not bragging, because I don't considered myself to be 'well educated', but 'well read'.
I've learned so much stuff...little stuff....remembered things that I've read...and a surprising amount has been retained.

I spend my reading time online now, but that's most likely due to the fact that my eyes are getting bad, and I can increase my font size if I need to.

Ugh! Now I sound like a little old lady!!! Ahhhhh!
*runs into Shed and slams door, for second time today*

jacy

a reply to: jacygirl

( Bangin on the Shed door a second time today!)

BAM!!! BAM!!! BAM!!! Get out here Young Lady! Umm, I wear reading glasses I got at the pharmacy for internet. Helps a LOT!! I do have real glasses too, BiFocals. So You Ain't Old Yet there!! LOL!!!!!

Edit: and Oh, yer last comm made me laugh out loud and woke my kid next room over!!! LOL!!! He's an allnighter playin WOW alot so was catchin a few ZZzzzz's.... LOL!

a reply to: SyxPak
*opens Shed door a crack and peers out*
hahaha....now we're waking the kids? That's funny.

I had prescription glasses...broke them...got cheap reading glasses...break and repeat, lol.
Why do they make the print on everything so damn small?
It's humiliating...holding my arm out full length...then bringing it closer...and closer...*sigh*

The worst part is, in Ontario...every single label has a French side. I stand in stores trying to read instructions, only to realize 5 minutes later that it's in French anyways. Rotate the package, and start over.

My sense of smell is increasing though, to make up for my eyesight and hearing loss.
I SAID....(just kidding....what?)
Carry on.
jacy

a reply to: jacygirl

All the factual reading I do, I do on the internet. I find having reference material at my fingertips, without having to own the text books from which the data is gleaned, a total Godsend. There is nothing like being able to do research in half an hour, that would ordinarily take days to get sources organised for.

I love that aspect of the internet.

But for fiction reading, you cannot beat paper and ink. Nothing properly replaces the feeling of pages between ones fingers.

a reply to: jacygirl

Mijimclgfei dnddfc bbbdufeno;ivj hjchyefun !??? LOL!!!!




Sorry bout that ,but just had to mess with ya Jacy! LOL!!! Hey I know the humiliation thing too. Usually when I can't read something in a store or whatever, I ask CC. Drives her nuts sometimes. But HEY, someones gotta do it, it might as well be me!! LOL!!!!!!

The two diff language thing would make me more bonkers than I am now! RUT ROH!!!!

(was laughing so hard lookin at my gibberish that I almost couldn't post!!! L'n MFAO!!!!!

a reply to: TrueBrit

Oh I agree completely!

Curling up with a book can't be replaced with an electronic device.
Most of my reading is research these days, can't seem to get into fiction....although I like to write it.

Sharing books is nice too...when somebody lends/gives you one to read because they enjoyed it.
I have a lot of books that I refuse to get rid of...would love to have a 'library' room...or even just a wall.

jacy

originally posted by: SyxPak
a reply to: jacygirl

Mijimclgfei dnddfc bbbdufeno;ivj hjchyefun !??? LOL!!!!


(was laughing so hard lookin at my gibberish that I almost couldn't post!!! L'n MFAO!!!!!

Damn you!!!!
I was actually squinting here trying to make some sense of that!!!!

Now it looks like the name of some city that Gordi or Jane would be putting up for us to try and pronounce, lol.

*meanders away muttering "some people's kids"....*
jacy

a reply to: jacygirl

Oh Stop!!! My stomach hurts!!!! Can barely type. I am sorry though, just in one of those moods.... LMAO!!!!!!

Oh God, Priceless!!!!!!

I know you'll get even somehow... LOL!!!!!!

(where's the emoticon that has tears streaming down the face from laughing!!!!)


Edit: I do apologize Jacy! Lol!! I'll be good now, need to before CC comes in here and smacks me!! LOL!!!!

a reply to: SyxPak

Don't be sorry, I had a good laugh too!
Sheesh, never be sorry for making me laugh!!

I think I'm in one of them moods too. Need to get some endorphins running around....that's right, isn't it?

*opens tab...searches 'endorphins'*

Hmmm....sounds very latin, must be a medical site....oops, next one sounds kinda kinky...

What the heck does laughing produce? *opens tab....*
I might be a while.
jacy

a reply to: jacygirl

Lol Jacy. I wasn't really sorry ya know... LMAO!!!
Yah endorphin is correct. Our own morphine, I believe. Laughing produces more laughing, the simple answer, right?!? LOL!!!!!

a reply to: SyxPak

Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

Yes, you are correct. I just read that, lol.

Oh, and yes I know you weren't really sorry...and yes paybacks can be a bitch!

Might have to write about a certain dragon tomorrow. Hmmm....clumsy landings? Dragon breath? Getting slapped by a polar bear?

jacy

a reply to: jacygirl

Lol That jacy LOL!!!!! Hey, gotta fly. Let me have it! In the story, LOL!!!! See ya later.....

Bye Guys!! LAter, Syx.

a reply to: jacygirl

Well.. With regard to somewhere to put ones books, I have a small amount of shelving...



And on the topic of sharing, here's the bulk grocery bag full that my brother in law leant to me the other day...



And this, is a picture of the top of my wardrobe, which has become a sort of default location for books I actually own, but have no current proper shelf space!