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[whigsgeek]

30. Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer

Was a bit disappointed in this last book in the Twilight series, which is why it took me so long to get through it (compared to the other titles).

I'm listening to the unabridged CD version in my car, so it might be awhile before I finish.  I just started disc 7 or about 17 this morning.  So far, I don't really enjoy the switching off to Jacob's point of view.  But once we've all finished this one, we must discuss.  I can't stop finding the religious/moral symbolism, and it's driving me crazy.  I may be reading way too much into it, but still.....

Yes, yes! Please post something or PM me when you're done b/c I NEED to talk about it.

My oldest sister has been a member of the Mormon church for 37 years. I've been to every kind of LDS church event you can imagine (with the exception of the secret marriage "sealing" ceremonies in the temple) and, like you, I see correlations to the LDS faith throughout the Stephenie Meyer books. The kicker for me will be to see if my sister is as vehemently opposed to the Twilight series as she is to Harry Potter.

[trixi]

1.  Room for Love--Andrea Meyer
2.  Neighbors: the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland--Jan Gross
3.  Betwixt--Tara Bray Smith
4.  Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List--Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
5.  A Bridge to the Stars--Henning Mankell
6.  Finding Daddy--Louise Plummer
7.  The Outcasts--L.S. Matthews
8.  There's No Place Like Here--Cecelia Ahern
9.  When I Crossed No-Bob--Margaret McMullan
10.  The Realm of Possibility--David Levithan
11.  Beanball--Gene Fehler
12.  The Appeal--John Grisham
13.  The Heartbreakers--Pamela Wells
14.  Snitch--Allison Van Diepen
15.  Big Boned--Meg Cabot
16.  7th Heaven--James Patterson
17.  Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet--Sherri L. Smith
18.  Secrets of My Suburban Life--Lauren Baratz-Logsted
19.  I Heart You, You Haunt Me--Lisa Schroeder
20.  Jinx--Meg Cabot
21.  Lucky--Cecily Von Ziegesar
22.  Queen of Babble in the Big City--Meg Cabot
23.  Big Fat Manifesto--Susan Vaught
24.  Another Kind of Cowboy--Susan Juby
25.  Tennyson--Lesley M.M. Blume
26.  Fake Boyfriend--Kate Brian
27.  Girl Overboard--Justina Chen Headley
28.  Blue Like Friday--Siobhan Parkinson
29.  Poseur--Rachel Maude
30.  Wednesday Wars--Gary D. Schmidt
31.  Year My Sister Got Lucky--Aimee Friedman
32.  Project 17--Laurie Faria Stolarz
33.  Kiss Me Kill Me--Laurie Henderson
34.  Girl Barely 15:  Flirting for England--Sue Limb
35.  How They Met and Other Stories--David Levithan
36.  Life Is Fine--Allison Whittenberg
37.  Ringside, 1925 : Views From the Scopes Trial--Jennifer Bryant
38.  White Darkness--Geraldine McCaughrean
39.  Good Enough--Paula Yoo
40.  The Redheaded Princess--Ann Rinaldi
41.  Where Are You Now?--Mary Higgins Clark
42.  Sundays at Tiffanys--James Patterson
43.  The Missing Girl--Norma Fox Mazer
44.  The Winter War--William Durbin
45.  Three Little Words: a memoir--Ashley Rhodes-Courter
46.  A Curse Dark As Gold--Elizabeth C. Bunce
47.  Spin the Bottle--Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
48.  Wake--Lisa McMann
49.  Comeback Season--Jennifer E. Smith
50.  Swine Not?: a novel pig tale--Jimmy Buffett
51.  You Know Where to Find Me--Rachel Cohn
52.  Princess Mia--Meg Cabot
53.  Skin Deep--E.M. Crane
54.  My Life, the Musical--Maryrose Wood
55.  Imaginary Enemy--Julie Gonzalez
56.  Fortunes of Indigo Skye--Deb Caletti
57.  Circle of Blood: a forensic mystery--Alane Ferguson
58.  My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank--Jacqueline van Maarsen
59.  The Opposite of Love--Julie Buxbaum
60.  Seeing Me Naked--Liza Palmer
61.  Wish You Were Here--Catherine Clark
62.  The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks--E. Lockhart
63.  Pretty Face--Mary Hogan
64.  Pirates of the Retail Wasteland--Adam Selzer
65.  How to Be Bad--E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle
66.  And Sometimes Why--Rebecca Johnson
67.  Like A Thorn--Clara Vidal
68.  Audrey, Wait!--Robin Benway
69.  Sweethearts--Sara Zarr
70.  The Death of Jayson Porter--Jaime Adoff
71.  Sail--James Patterson
72.  Latent Powers of Dylan Fontaine--April Lurie
73.  Queen of Babble Gets Hitched--Meg Cabot
74.  The Carlyles--Annabelle Vestry
75.  LoveHampton--Sherri Rifkin
76.  Walk of the Spirits--Richie Tankersley Cusick
77.  Beach House--Jane Green
78.  When You Wish--Kristin Harmel
79.  Beneath My Mother's Feet--Amjed Qamar
80.  Strong and Sexy--Jill Shalvis
81.  Last Writes--Laura Levine
82.  Adoration of Jenna Fox--Mary E. Pearson
83.  Suck It Up--Brian Meehl
84.  The Final Warning--James Patterson

85.  The Fold--An Na
86.  The Last Single Woman in America--Cindy Guidry
87.  Don't You Forget About Me--Jancee Dunn

[kcneon]

1  Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division - Deborah Curtis
2  The Conspiracy Club - Jonathan Kellerman
3  Days of Drums - Philip Shelby
4  Good in Bed - Jennifer Weiner
5  The Woman Who Walked into Doors - Roddy Doyle
6  George Muller: Delighted in God - Roger Steer
7  Radio On - Sarah Vowell
8  Petal Pusher - Laurie Lindeen
9  Pete Doherty: Last of the Rock Romantics - Alex Hannaford

10 Gold - Dan Rhodes
11 Declassified: 50 Top-Secret Documents That Changed History - Thomas B. Allen

Currently Reading
Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life

[Rafe]

I've read a lot of cracking books so far this year, but I've mislaid the archaic PC they were listed on. Well it's not mislaid, it blew up. I'll add to my list here once I can remember them all.

[foolsgold]

1. 90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper
2. History of Love - Nicole Kraus
3. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
4. Awake in the Dark - Shira Nayman
5. Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke
6. Flashman and the Redskins - George MacDonald Fraser
7. Guv'nor - Lenny McLean
8. Tales From the Red's Dugout - Tom Browning
9. Joe: Rounding Third and Headed For Home - Greg Hoard
10. Slam - Nick Hornby
11. Bad versus Worse - Joshua Piven
12. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million - Daniel Mendelson
13. The 1940 Cincinnati Reds: A World Champion and Baseball's Only In-Season Suicide - Brian Mulligan
14. Loser - Jerry Spinelli
15. Boy With Loaded Gun - Lewis Nordan
16. In the Penny Arcade - Steven Millhauser
17. Dusklands - JM Coetzee
18. The Human Fly and Other Stories - TC Boyle
19. There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights 1945-75 - Jason Sokol
20. Entries From a Hot Pink Notebook - Todd Brown
21. Flashman: A Novel - George MacDonald Fraser
22. Praise - Andrew McGahan
23. 1988 - Andrew McGahan
24. Black Ajax - George MacDonald Fraser
25. Flashman in the Great Game - George MacDonald Fraser
26. Neon Rain - James Lee Burke
27. Age of Iron - JM Coetzee
28. Kent Airfields of the Second World War - Robin Brookes
29. In the Heart of the Country - JM Coetzee
30. The White Earth - Andrew McGahan
31. This Republic of Suffering - Drew Gilpin-Faust
32. Last Night At the Lobster - Stewart O'Nan
33. Quiet, Please: Dispatches From a Public Librarian - Scott Douglas
34. Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
35. Last Drinks - Andrew McGahan
36. Slouching Towards Gomorrah - Dan Savage
37. The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven - Alan Warner
38. Bright, Shiny Morning - James Frey
39. Disgrace - JM Coetzee
40. Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
41. Join Me - Danny Wallace
42. The Darling - Russell Banks
43. In Search of the La's: A Secret Liverpool - MW Macefield

44. When You're Engulfed By Flames - David Sedaris

[redbobsled]

1. What my girlfriend doesn't know - Sonya Sones
2. Songs without words - Ann Packer
3.  Long Live the Queen - Ellen Emerson White (a re-read)
4. The Nannies - Melody Mayer
5. Ben and the Sudden too-big family - Colby Rodowsky
6. Open Court - Carol Clippinger
7. The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
8.  Taken - Edward Bloor
9.  How it happened in Peach Hill - Marthe Jocelyn
10.  The Diary of Pelly D - LJ Adlington
11. American Born Chinese - Gene Yang
12. The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
13. Boy Toy - Barry Lyga
14. Dirty Work - Bell
15. Before I Die - Jenny Downham
16. Sisters in Sanity - Gayle Forman
17. Lessons from a Dead Girl - Knowles
18. The Missing Girl - Norma Fox Mazer
19. Prey - Lurlene McDaniel (what a piece of CRAP)
20. Teach Me - R.A. Nelson
21. Breathe my name - R.A. Nelson
22. Huge - Sasha Paley
23. Grl2grl: short fictions - Julie Anne Peters
24. Big Fat Manifesto - Susan Vaught
25. Puri Puri - Volume 1 (manga)
26. All we ever wanted was everything - Janelle Brown (an adult novel!)
27. Naoki Urasawa's Monster - Volume 1 (manga)
28. My so-called life goes on (yes, this was a novelization continuation of MSCL, and it was BAD)
29. Get Well Soon - Julie Halpern
30. Almost Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
31. Twelve Long Months - Brian Malloy
32.  Life as we knew it - Susan Beth Pfeffer - what an awesome book!  Can't wait to read the sequel/companion novel.
33.  Sweethearts - Sara Zarr
34.  Crazy Hot - Melissa de la Cruz
35.  The adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary Pearson
36.  Dream Factory - Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler
37.  My Most Excellent Year: a novel of love, Marry Poppins, and Fenway Park - Steve Kluger (awesome!!!)
38  The Dead and the Gone - Susan Beth Pfeffer
39.  Manga Touch - Jacqueline Pearce
40.  Lopsided - Meredith Norton
41. Gert Garibaldi's Rants and Raves - Amber Kizer
42. Girl Stories - Lauren Weinstein
43.  Girl, Barely 15: Flirting for England - Sue Limb
44.  Princess Diaries Volume 8 - Princess on the Brink - Meg Cabot
45.  Lock and Key - Sarah Dessen
46.  Better than running at night - Hilary Frank
47.  Naoki Urasawa's Monster - Volume 2
48. Fourth Comings - Megan McCafferty
49-51. Naoki Urasawa's Monster - Volume 3, 4, 5
52. Bird Lake Moon - Kevin Henkes
53. Chiggers - Hope Larson
54. Tips on having a gay (ex)-boyfriend - Carrie Jones
55. Boy Proof - Cecil Castelluccui
56.  Uprising - Margaret Peterson Haddix (good historical fiction for YAs!)
57.  Fun Home: A family tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
58.  Awkward and Definition - Ariel Schrag
59.  Potential - Ariel Schrag
60.  All we Know of Heaven - Jacquelyn Mitchard (ho-hum.)

61.  Feathered - Laura Kasischke

[Cockney Rebel]

1 • Scott Adams - Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain - Cartoonist Ignores Helpful Advice
2 • Anna Quindlen - Good Dog. Stay
3 • Bill Shapiro - Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See
4 • Dan Kennedy - Rock On: An Office Power Ballad
5 • Sam Bourne - The Righteous Men
6 • Melody Petersen - Our Daily Meds
7 • Rupert Everett - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins
8 • David Giffels - All the Way Home - Building a Family in a Falling-Down House
9 • John Grisham - The Brethren
10 • Jim Holt - Stop Me If You've Heard This - A History and Philosophy of Jokes
11 • Josh Ozersky - The Hamburger
12 • Alison Bass - Side Effects - A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial

adding
13 • Joshua M Greenberg - From Betamax to Blockbuster - Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video
Terribly executed book on what should have been a fascinating tale. Obvious the author did next to NO research preferring to rely just on his and his friends skewed memories.

[redbobsled]

1. What my girlfriend doesn't know - Sonya Sones
2. Songs without words - Ann Packer
3.  Long Live the Queen - Ellen Emerson White (a re-read)
4. The Nannies - Melody Mayer
5. Ben and the Sudden too-big family - Colby Rodowsky
6. Open Court - Carol Clippinger
7. The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
8.  Taken - Edward Bloor
9.  How it happened in Peach Hill - Marthe Jocelyn
10.  The Diary of Pelly D - LJ Adlington
11. American Born Chinese - Gene Yang
12. The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
13. Boy Toy - Barry Lyga
14. Dirty Work - Bell
15. Before I Die - Jenny Downham
16. Sisters in Sanity - Gayle Forman
17. Lessons from a Dead Girl - Knowles
18. The Missing Girl - Norma Fox Mazer
19. Prey - Lurlene McDaniel (what a piece of CRAP)
20. Teach Me - R.A. Nelson
21. Breathe my name - R.A. Nelson
22. Huge - Sasha Paley
23. Grl2grl: short fictions - Julie Anne Peters
24. Big Fat Manifesto - Susan Vaught
25. Puri Puri - Volume 1 (manga)
26. All we ever wanted was everything - Janelle Brown (an adult novel!)
27. Naoki Urasawa's Monster - Volume 1 (manga)
28. My so-called life goes on (yes, this was a novelization continuation of MSCL, and it was BAD)
29. Get Well Soon - Julie Halpern
30. Almost Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
31. Twelve Long Months - Brian Malloy
32.  Life as we knew it - Susan Beth Pfeffer - what an awesome book!  Can't wait to read the sequel/companion novel.
33.  Sweethearts - Sara Zarr
34.  Crazy Hot - Melissa de la Cruz
35.  The adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary Pearson
36.  Dream Factory - Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler
37.  My Most Excellent Year: a novel of love, Marry Poppins, and Fenway Park - Steve Kluger (awesome!!!)
38  The Dead and the Gone - Susan Beth Pfeffer
39.  Manga Touch - Jacqueline Pearce
40.  Lopsided - Meredith Norton
41. Gert Garibaldi's Rants and Raves - Amber Kizer
42. Girl Stories - Lauren Weinstein
43.  Girl, Barely 15: Flirting for England - Sue Limb
44.  Princess Diaries Volume 8 - Princess on the Brink - Meg Cabot
45.  Lock and Key - Sarah Dessen
46.  Better than running at night - Hilary Frank
47.  Naoki Urasawa's Monster - Volume 2
48. Fourth Comings - Megan McCafferty
49-51. Naoki Urasawa's Monster - Volume 3, 4, 5
52. Bird Lake Moon - Kevin Henkes
53. Chiggers - Hope Larson
54. Tips on having a gay (ex)-boyfriend - Carrie Jones
55. Boy Proof - Cecil Castelluccui
56.  Uprising - Margaret Peterson Haddix (good historical fiction for YAs!)
57.  Fun Home: A family tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
58.  Awkward and Definition - Ariel Schrag
59.  Potential - Ariel Schrag
60.  All we Know of Heaven - Jacquelyn Mitchard (ho-hum.)
61.  Feathered - Laura Kasischke

62.  Parrotfish - Ellen Wittlinger

[whigsgeek]

1. Invisible Prey, John Sandford
2. Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad, Mike Greenberg
3. Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke
4. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman
5. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, Steve Martin
6. Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life, Laurie Notaro
7. Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time, Rob Sheffield
8. Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life, James Blake
9. Play Dead, David Rosenfelt
10. Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, Simon Reynolds
11. Kiss This: Punk in the Present Tense, Gina Arnold
12. Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, Charles J. Shields
13. Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the Journey of a Generation, Sheila Weller
14. Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me, Pattie Boyd
15. Death at Chappaquiddick, Richard L. Tedrow and Thomas L. Tedrow
16. Black Curtain, Cornell Woolrich
17. We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive, Laurie Notaro
18. Too Much, Too Soon, Diana Barrymore
19. In Lust We Trust: Adventures in Adult Cinema, Gerrie Lim
20. Dream a Little Dream of Me: The Life of Cass Elliot, Eddi Fiegel
21. Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion, Jennifer Saginor
22. Band Fags!, Frank Anthony Polito
23. His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina, Danielle Steel
24. Rear Window and Four Short Novels, Cornell Woolrich
25. Hairstyles of the Damned, Joe Meno
26. Boyos, Richard Marinick
27. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
28. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
29. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
30. Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer

31. You're Lucky You're Funny: How Life Becomes a Sitcom, Phil Rosenthal

[redbobsled]

63.  Story of a Girl - Sara Zarr
64.  Leftovers - Laura Wiess (her books are kind of emotionally rough to read.  JEEZ!!)

[c-lando]

87.  Don't You Forget About Me--Jancee Dunn

I can't WAIT to read this!! How was it?!?!?!?

[c-lando]

1. The Green Glass Sea - Ellen Klages
2. Money Wanders - Eric Dezenhall
3. Good Dog. Stay - Anna Quindlen
4. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story - Chuck Klosterman - I loved this until the last 2 chapters. But, it's highly quotable in the beginning. Love + Modern Rock + Road-Trip-Brained Philosophy = Yay
5. The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind - Ken Foster
6. Echo Park - Michael Connelly
7. Belong to Me - Marisa de los Santos
8. LoveHampton - Sherri Rifkin
9. Lush Life - Richard Price
10. Dedication - Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin
11. The Spare Wife - Alex Witchel
12. Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter - Phoebe Damrosch

13. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea - Chelsea Handler

[foolsgold]

1. 90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper
2. History of Love - Nicole Kraus
3. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
4. Awake in the Dark - Shira Nayman
5. Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke
6. Flashman and the Redskins - George MacDonald Fraser
7. Guv'nor - Lenny McLean
8. Tales From the Red's Dugout - Tom Browning
9. Joe: Rounding Third and Headed For Home - Greg Hoard
10. Slam - Nick Hornby
11. Bad versus Worse - Joshua Piven
12. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million - Daniel Mendelson
13. The 1940 Cincinnati Reds: A World Champion and Baseball's Only In-Season Suicide - Brian Mulligan
14. Loser - Jerry Spinelli
15. Boy With Loaded Gun - Lewis Nordan
16. In the Penny Arcade - Steven Millhauser
17. Dusklands - JM Coetzee
18. The Human Fly and Other Stories - TC Boyle
19. There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights 1945-75 - Jason Sokol
20. Entries From a Hot Pink Notebook - Todd Brown
21. Flashman: A Novel - George MacDonald Fraser
22. Praise - Andrew McGahan
23. 1988 - Andrew McGahan
24. Black Ajax - George MacDonald Fraser
25. Flashman in the Great Game - George MacDonald Fraser
26. Neon Rain - James Lee Burke
27. Age of Iron - JM Coetzee
28. Kent Airfields of the Second World War - Robin Brookes
29. In the Heart of the Country - JM Coetzee
30. The White Earth - Andrew McGahan
31. This Republic of Suffering - Drew Gilpin-Faust
32. Last Night At the Lobster - Stewart O'Nan
33. Quiet, Please: Dispatches From a Public Librarian - Scott Douglas
34. Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
35. Last Drinks - Andrew McGahan
36. Slouching Towards Gomorrah - Dan Savage
37. The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven - Alan Warner
38. Bright, Shiny Morning - James Frey
39. Disgrace - JM Coetzee
40. Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
41. Join Me - Danny Wallace
42. The Darling - Russell Banks
43. In Search of the La's: A Secret Liverpool - MW Macefield
44. When You're Engulfed By Flames - David Sedaris

45. Sweet Hereafter - Russell Banks

[MissKitty]

1. Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy
2. Overtreated:Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker by Shannon Brownlee
3. Good Dog. Stay. by Anna Quindlen.
4. Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkeybrain! by Scott Adams
5. Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See by Bill Shapiro
6. Apronisms by EllynAnne Geisel
7. Union 1812 by A.J. Langguth
8. The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee by Thomas William Humes
9. Portraits of Conflict: a Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War by Richard B. McCaslin
11. Transmetropolitan Vol. 1: Back on the Street by Darick Robertson and Warren Ellis
12. Transmetropolitan Vol. 2 - Lust For Life by Darick Robertson and Warren Ellis
13. Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me by Pattie Boyd
14. Bar Flower by Lea Jacobson
15. Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed by Paul Trynka
16. Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
17. The American Resting Place by Marilyn Yalom
18. The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
19. Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived World War One by Michele Barrett
20. Creepers by Joanne Dahme
21. The Lost Life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert
22. All the Way Home by David Giffels
23. Red Carpets & Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
24. Mantids by Ron Dakron
25. Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
26. Echoes of a Native Land by Serge Schmemann

At this point there is no way I am going to reach 50 by the end of the year, so I've said "f*ck it, I'm reading a good, long ass book."
Currently reading:
27. King's Mountain and It's Heroes by Lyman Draper.

[trixi]

87.  Don't You Forget About Me--Jancee Dunn

I can't WAIT to read this!! How was it?!?!?!?

Sorry, didn't see this til today.  It was pretty good.  The theme of revisiting your high school years, crushes,friends, etc back in the 80s was completely up my alley, and I could definitely relate to Lily's actions as she thinks back to those days.  On the other hand, Lily's current life situations and the way she handled many of them got to be a bit annoying.  She was a bit too passive in taking control of her life, but finally did get around to getting it together.