We can has stormy weather?

[mercy_angel_09]

Well, had a heck of a storm yesterday. Hopefully some time this afternoon I'll upload the video that I took. We had driving rain, as well as thunder and lightening. Very, very frightening me! Galileo! Galileo! Galileo! Galileo! Figaro-oh-oh-oh-oh! We unplugged all important electronics (so the computers, TV and stereo system) and resorted to just sitting back and chilling.

Or in my case, I kept reading. I finished Anne of Green Gables yesterday afternoon and then read all of Anne of Avonlea before bed. This afternoon I'm going to read Anne of the Island (which is probably my favorite out of all the Anne books) and then probably start on Anne of Windy Poplars within the next couple of days. Since a handful of the Anne books are public domain, I got those off of Project Gutenberg to put on my nook so that I can take them anywhere. I do have the entire series in paperback, though, so I can read the entire series without waiting for the rest of them to become public domain. I've also decided that I want to watch the TV movies again, which I can thankfully get off of Netflix.

This does mean that I should probably clear off Farscape and watch those streaming (because they are streaming, and I really don't watch the bonus features on the DVDs), which will also mean that my husband and I can add actual MOVIES to the queue and watch those instead of getting the Farscape DVDs and trying to slog through them. Sheesh, I've had several episodes from season 2 (or is that season 3) sitting on my end table waiting to be watched and I just haven't had the urge. So. Memo self - this afternoon take the rest of Farscape off of the queue and start loading it up with other stuff - stuff that I'm actually going to watch.

At any rate, I do need to do my cleaning before I can do any reading, but that's a given, considering that I can and will spend a whole day reading if I feel so inclined. Tomorrow I'm going to work on TCLBA stuff (as well I should), and try to get as much as that done as I can before I call my mother so we can work out dues and whatnot. (Not that it's particularly hard, but I need to get used to the mail merge function in Word.)

Comments

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

I grabbed most of the Anne books for my Kindle as well. It kind of bugs me, actually, that one of my favorites -- Anne of Ingleside -- isn't public domain, and LMM's estate keeps renewing the copyright on it rather than letting it lapse to join the others. Thankfully though, all of the Anne books are public domain in Australia, so the Australian Project Gutenberg site has them all.

I wouldn't mind paying for it, but that doesn't seem to be an option either. I do want to reread the Anne books now that I'm older.

[mercy-angel-09.livejournal.com]

I've so far opted out of Rilla of Ingleside and Rainbow Valley even though they're on Project Gutenberg, mostly because while I do like them, they're not particular favorites. Perhaps a bit later down the road I'll put them on there, but I'm content to have the first three and Anne's House of Dreams (which means the only two that aren't available are Anne of Windy Poplars and Anne of Ingleside).

I certainly wouldn't mind paying for them either - I love them and have read and re-read them a number of times since I first read them all as a freshman in high school. (It took me less than a month to get through all eight of them, much to the amusement of my geography teacher.) And while I have them in paperback, there's something to be said about the portability of an eReader.

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

My copes of the books disintegrated and fell apart when I was a teenager because I read them so much. I do need another set.

[humoresques.livejournal.com]

Is it your first time reading Anne of Green Gables, or are you re-reading it? I've only read the first one.

[mercy-angel-09.livejournal.com]

I read the entire series over the course of about two weeks when I was a freshman in high school. We will not say how many years ago this was. Suffice to say it was over ten and that should say enough.

My sister had the entire series as a boxed set, which was something that I wanted. However they stopped doing the boxed sets by the time I got around to requesting my own copies (about five years ago). At any rate, I read and reread them in high school (borrowing them from my sister), then in junior college, and then in college, and I'm just now reading them again four years out of college. I love the whole series, and I admit that it doesn't take me too long to get through them all.