long and useless

Well, my internet is still unstable. It's doing the same thing as before, just less frequently. The issue now is that while packets are being sent... I'm just not getting them. I'm truly at a loss here. I can download since I just leave my internet on all night and thus giving it time, but for regular, everyday perusal, it's almost too frustrating to be worth it.

Argh.

On a better note, I have to say - I love my flist! In college, reading for pleasure had been drastically cut back because of the massive amounts of reading I had to do for school. When I moved to Japan, I had asked for suggestions and I'm happy to say that there were few, if any, wrong pointers. =) I've finished most of the books people have suggested and am working through the rest.

A quick runthrough (from what I can remember as I sit here at work):

( it's raining books )

I also have Lonesome Dove, Catch-22, Kafka on the Shore, Artemis Fowl and others. The first three, I have yet to read but there's a good reason. Some fellow ALT's have borrowed them and I'm waiting to get them back before I dive in.

Books recced in earlier posts are on order/in my amazon.co.jp cart. Huge and lavish thanks to those who have recced. =) Especially to cedarlibrarian and traykor whose librarian superpowers are very cool.

Recs are from this journal post and this journal post and this post.

Whew!