Book Survey

Snagged this off from unbound_ophelia

1) Have you ever regifted a book that you've been given?
No, I guess because my Mom was a teacher in her working years (and eventually headmistress), she had a rule that we "should not give books away". So there was a time where we really had A LOT of books. Eventually due to real physical constraints she relented and we put some books aside for people to pick up (the library had picky requirements for book donations) and meanwhile I posted on some Facebook Freecycle groups to get people to take some of my books too.

2) Have you ever said that you read a book when you actually haven't?
Nah, if I said I've read the book, then I've read it. Now whether I remember the events in the book or not, is another matter.

3) Have you ever borrowed a book and not returned it?
No, I'm very good with books. Chances are if I saw you had a book I wanted to read, I wouldn't ask to borrow it, I'd go buy my own copy LOL waste of money I know, but kid me was slow on the uptake on money matters. Oh, even library books, I've returned them all.

4) Have you ever read a series out of order?
The easiest to think of is Discworld. I thought it was just a "World" (since, DiscWORLD), so I didn't think the stories were interconnected. The first Discworld book I read was The Truth, the 25th book I think. After that, I grew to like Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Then one day I was cleaning up my shelf and found out that apparently, I we had Mort, the 4th book, always sitting on the shelf (it was a book Mom allowed us to buy on a holiday trip to London. Sis got Mort because of the starry sparkly cover design, and I got A Night In The Lonesome October, because there was a dog and animals on the cover LOL). Then I found out that it's a series so I got it stuck in my mind to read it in order, and then I read The Color of Magic, the 1st book, and later The Light Fantastic, 2nd book. It was only after this that I noticed it had Arcs, like the Rincewind arc, the Witches arc, the Police Force arc, etc... and so one didn't really need to read it in order, and since then the sequencing went to hell for me.

5) Have you ever spoiled a book for someone?
Would I be spoiling if they asked me to tell them about it?

6) Have you ever dog-eared pages in a book?
Only school books, never novels.

7) Have you ever told someone that you don't own a book when you actually do?
Books are my pride and joy, I wouldn't deny I had any book. Though I really should go through my books and bring the really good ones or the authors that I really like out to display instead of what I have done now. Task for another day!

8) Have you ever told someone that you haven't read a book when you have?
I don't think so? I mean, I post on Goodreads and here as soon as I've read a book (ever since I got access to Goodreads)... so there are some books I've read but no review written, because those were from before the internet times. That book I got in London I mentioned just now, A Night In The Lonesome October, is one of them. I bought it, I read it, I don't remember what it's about. I think some politics stuff.

9) Have you ever skipped a chapter or a section in a book?
Probably yes.

10) Have you ever badmouthed a book you actually liked?
Hm... I don't think so? I think it's the other way around, I started out not to like a book, so that's what I say, but then the book slowly grows on me? A recent example would be Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro). It was so weird in the beginning, I actually didn't like the book, but then when I understood it, it was awesomely horrifying yet I couldn't look away and had to read on and now it's one of my favs - for the wow factor. It's never gonna happen to me again because I now know, but I like to recommend the book to people.

Life and work

ooooh... I had such a busy week last week. After a certain presentation today, I consider myself in freedom, although there is still work on Friday, tomorrow LOL.

I'm also writing from my MacBook Air which feels so weird. I guess I've gotten used to the iPad with keyboard. I had stopped using my old MacBook Air (probably bought in 2013) because the battery life was getting really short. It'd go down to some 30% and suddenly the next minute the MacBook's dead. Well, a sudden split-second decision brought me to this repair shop and I got the battery replaced, so I'm kind of testing the battery life now. But I'm pretty happy with it. I think I've been typing on this for almost an hour or even over an hour and the battery started with 93% and now it's 86%, though I wasn't really paying attention just now. I'll do a proper timing next time.

I'm going to take tomorrow easy. I have the minutes from today's big presentation to write and then a lunch with some nice chatty colleagues. I usually like to issue minutes on the same day, but by the time the meeting ended it was 5pm and I had to go to the other office to sign off some paperwork for that office. I suppose a within 24-hours timeframe is acceptable.

This leads me to want to rant about a colleague at work. He called for a meeting, I had to be there because I had to set up the computer for video conferencing with my Boss, but this colleague seem to be of the impression that since "I'm the admin" I would issue the minutes for him. Heck no. Get your own admin to write your own minutes. In fact, when he called for the meeting, he had the gall to say "I want to have this meeting, you send the invitation agenda!" I kind of skivved off it, saying the final decision maker isn't me, it's the other admin because her Boss is the True Big Boss, and he had the gall to tell her the same thing LOL.

Now he's chasing me for the minutes and saying "he's afraid to ask her", meh, hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Ask her yourself, sir!

LOL I feel so stupid. I'm writing on the MacBook Air but as I review the past paragraphs and see typos I tried to press on the screen to move the cursor LOL LOL LOL. I think it's a good thing I've decided to bring out the laptop again.

Oh yeah, the kombucha thing I made last month was a failure. I guess I didn't disinfect the bottle well enough, so now it's all fungus instead of SCOBY. BUT BUT BUT! I signed up to a workshop for kombucha brewing and that includes a SCOBY starter for later. Well, since I've failed learning it from Youtube and books, I'm going to an actual workshop to learn it!

I have a manicure lined up for Saturday. I should start thinking about colors. It's summer. I want to do one of those Tiffany-blue-ish-green-Aqua-ish maybe?

Time to be a slave to the cats and clean up the litter box and refill the sand! Until the next time! (maybe tomorrow for the Friday Five).