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Book 56 out 100 is Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher

Summary From BarnesandNoble.com:
"Carrie Fisher is "one of our most painfully hilarious correspondents from the edge of sanity," said Vanity Fair about the author of this classic novel of men, drugs and alcohol, heartbreak and recovery...Hollywood-style. As timely today as when it was first published, Postcards from the Edge is "a wickedly shrewd black-humor riff on the horrors of rehab and the hollows of Hollywood life" (People) — a witty, vivid, and all-too-revealing look at the dangers and delights of our addiction."

My Thoughts:
I just recently watched the movie on Netflix(LOVE) and founf it good enough. I requested the book from paperbackswap and set to reading it. I'm not sure I would even have known the movie was based on this had it not had the movie poster as the cover. The main character is still Suzanne, and actress who went to rehab, bur that's about it. I liked this book. It was quick. However I found it difficult to read because of the writing style. It was so frantic. I felt tired after reading a few pages. Carrie Fisher definetely writes a wry, insiders look. I liked Suzanne and wanted her to sort herself out.


7/10

I hope you guys are having a nice holiday! ( Forgot the cut.... )

I do not want to do my civic duty and report to jury duty tomorrow. At least my job is giving me the night off with 8 hours paid. That's kind of nice, but I still don't want to get up at 6. I am far too lazy for that!



Oh, does anyone know why my computer insists I am in Alhambra? Anytime I detect location I am listed as being in Alhambra. wendelah1 I am sorry if I goofed on your map, I forgot about it listing me in Alhambra until I had already clicked.

I love these dresses by sixtylilies, so I decided to do some recolors/retextures and slap some patterns on them.



These use a mesh by gelydh and the textures are by witheredlillies. Patterns are by funky fabrix (thanks to a post by bondchick_nett) and inxsomniax and cdg @ freshmakers.

( a shit ton of pictures & download link )

Enjoy, everybody, and merry christmas, happy hanukkah, etc.!

Apparently my computer is weaker than I thought. I happily installed and started up Create-A-World last night, only to have my computer choke so badly I thought it was going to cook. All I had running was Firefox, CAW, and Avast.

I uninstalled EVERYTHING. TS3, WA, and CAW. I've gone back to TS2. Less problems, happier computer, happier player - and a copy of SimCity 4 to play with when I want to make my own hoods.

Book 55 out of 100 Body Bags by Christopher Golden

Summary From Amazon.com:
"The first day at college, my professor dropped dead. The second day, I assisted at his autopsy. Let's hope I don't have to go through four years of this...."

When Jenna Blake starts her freshman year at Somerset University, she's not only living on her own for the first time, she's moving closer to the father she never really knew. It's an exciting time, filled with new faces and new challenges, not to mention parties and guys and...corpses?

Jenna feels torn about her future. She'd like to be a doctor like her mother, but she can't stand the sight of blood. Her father, a criminology professor, thinks he has the answer and sends her to interview for a job with the medical examiner -- an interview that takes place in the middle of an autopsy.

When a congressional aide goes violently insane and then drops dead, the pathology team at Somerset Medical Center discovers that his brain was ravaged with disease -- and loaded with insect larvae. As Jenna starts her new job, she is drawn into a web of terrifying disease, dangerous politics, and intriguing mystery. And when one of her professors ends up dead, she starts making connections even the police haven't seen...connections which will bring her face to face with a pair of killers: one medical, and one all too human."

My Thoughts:
Yes, this is a YA book. I read this series when I was 14 and loved it. I needed a quick read at work and this was laying around so I picked it up again. I still think it's a great book. In fact I am probably going to search for the rest of the series. It's well written and not at all dumbed down. In my experience most YA fiction is about vampires, fairies, or fitting in in school. This is not. This book reads like an episode of the X-Files almost.

7/10

Take a look here

I haven't read the review (too tired, letters swimming on screen) so I have no idea what they say. Keep in mind that they had access to the beta.

CAW is supposed to come out some time this month. They don't have long to actually release it!

I bring you MOAR make-up of the stolen-and-then-horribly-mutilated variety - "trash," a set of lipglosses, and an eyeshadow set called "quest," plus a .psd file of my lip colors for anyone of the creatorly sort who may be interested.



First up is "trash." I used a bunch of different textures for this set and smushed them together, but I know some of the originals were by tifa. (I think I also used some random lip textures I found at simscave in the "asian sites" section.) There are thirty colors, the same ones I always use.

( four more pictures & download link + .psd file )


(Instead of girls' names, boys' names! I am so creative, right?)

And "quest." These are some eyeshadows based on buffybot's (joedy_76) "grey matter" skin. (The alpha's kind of big and blobby, so these aren't exactly subtle.) There are thirty colors.

( four more pictures & download link )

Usual stuff, comment if you want to, credit if you feel like it, etc. People do that anyway. And now I have to remove all "evidence of smoking" from my room before it gets inspected over the holidays. Oops?