April Photo Book Challenge: day 7

I wanted to choose one of the Harry Potter books for today's challenge of awkward character. I just don't know which box those books are in. The one box I did go through, I saw the book "Of Mice and of Men". I decided against using the book, because like I mentioned in a previous post, most people probably were forced to read those books for school. Even though it is one of my all time favorite books, I choose not to use it.

I chose "Saturn's Children" by Charles Stross. Not only is the character in this book awkward, the whole book is awkward. I bought this book years ago when I was in Barnes and Noble looking for something new to read. I admit the cover caught my eye ... Oh! I should have used his for favorite cover! Anyway, I read the description and it seemed okay. When I started reading it, I found out the main character is a former sexbot. Not only that, but the spaceship she uses has it insert itself in her. So weird! I never finished the book. I think I will go back to it one day just to give it another chance. Maybe it gets better.

April Photo Book Challenge: day 6

When I saw that today's challenge was 'edition', I knew I would need to find one of my tech books. My tech books are the only books I have that I know are the second or third edition of its kind.

I used three sources of light for this photo and it still came out bad. Oh well.

April Book Photo Challenge: day 5

Day 5 of the April Book Photo Challenge is 'Favorite Cover'. I don't have a favorite cover. Most of my books are in boxes. I didn't feel like sifting through all of them, so I picked the book with the cover I liked from the first box I went through.

I read this book in the early 00's. I can't remember what it was about. I know it was about sisters and I think I remember one of the sisters getting on my nerves. I liked the cover because I liked how the artist was able to draw them to look very similar enough to look like sisters, but different enough to show their different personalities. I also like the shape of their eyes and eyebrows.

April Book Photo Challenge: day 4

Day 4 of the April Book Photo Challenge is 1990's and I should have had a ton of choices for this day, but I didn't. Well ... I kind of did. I have a bunch of books I had to read for school, but I felt like most people would have been forced to read them too, so why feature them. I'm sure in later days I might go against that statement. I want to try to post books I like(d) or read by choice.

This book was published in the 90's; 1998 to be exact. As you can see from the bookmark, I'm not done reading it. When will that happen? Your guess is as good as mine. 

I bought the book when I was heavy in my drawing phase. It was probably around the time I started this blog. I have a bunch of comic ideas I've been working on, so I guess I bought this book to get an idea of what works and what doesn't work. Here is a bonus photo: 

This is what was drawn on the bookmark. I must have been testing out some things I saw in the book. The female is definitely from my anime phase. Umm ... yeah ... 

April Book Photo Challenge: day 3

Day three of the April Book Photo Challenge is 'Spring Time'. I would have loved to have taken a book to a garden and taken pictures of it, but that was something currently not doable. Instead I choose a book I read in the spring time.

I read this book in the spring of 2010. I can barely remember it, so I am thinking about adding it to my re-read list. The only thing that is stoping me is the tons of books I already own that I have yet to read @_@.

April Book Photo Challenge: day 2

Talk about good timing. Day two of the April Book Photo Challenge is 'newest purchase' and I just pulled these out of my mailbox today.

I've had the 'Dreaming in Hindi' book on my Amazon wishlist for years. Since I am now trying to be more diligent and serious about my studying of languages, I thought it was time to finally buy it and read it.

Persepolis is a memoir in a graphic novel form about a woman who grew up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

April Book Photo Challenge: day 1

Okay so this post is a little late but I'm not that far behind. I've been looking for a challenge I could get into and this seems to be a good one.

I was scrolling through my tumblr feed, when I saw that thesportsdiva re-blogged a post about a photo book challenge. I immediately sent her an IM telling her I was going to do it too.

It combines two things I like: books and photography.

Day one is to post a photo of what you are currently reading. I've been reading this book since February. It is interesting so I want to finish it, but because it is a biography and one that is not written in a linear fashion, it is not as engaging as a novel.