First- books I need to read.. This is compiled by a) books I got for christmas and b) books people are telling me to read.
A Lion Among Men (in process)
A Tale of Two Cities
The Neverending Story
The Outlaws of Sherwood
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Thief
Feed
Love in the Time of Cholera
Ghostwritten
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Phantom Tollbooth
Watchmen
Exodus
Kazik
The Dream Stealer
Master and Commander
Post Captain
H.M.S. Surprise
and voila!
so then... what else to say. apologize to my lack of an audience for having been remiss at updating my blog? I think not.
perhaps I could recommend books to my 'readers!' haha.
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well, my favorites include:
Mortal Engines (part of the Hungry City Chronicles, which one should read all of if only to read the last chapter of the last book, A Darkling Plain). sci-fyi, future. setting is eurasia, approximately. The reason I love these books is because they focus on the characters. the characters and everything they go through are important. the elaborate plot-line is not centered around some uncontrollable factor but around the character's mishaps and actions. perhaps, also, because I LOVE apocalyptic themes. :D
Anything by Gregory Maguire. that was not a book title, I'm talking about the author, here. He wrote Wicked, which, although it was turned in a dark musical with a sickeningly happy ending (still bitter about that one), it is a phenomenal book, and even better are the sequels, "Son of a Witch," and "A Lion Among Men."* *actually, I don't know about that one, as I haven't finished it. so far, it's fab.* Personally, however, my favorite of his is called "Mirror Mirror" which is the wonderfully written account of Snow White, from Maguire's stygian perspective. absolutely entertaining.
I like other books. I am lazy. List ends here.
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any other topic? probably. like letters, and the subject of chocolate and/or weight gain and/or pimples. ha.
I get letters from my friend Kaitlin in South Carolina. she's wonderful at writing letters. we mostly focus on the envelope's, and their various decorations. The things we talk about generally stick to the same subjects: boys, various amusing encounters of the week, and some lyrics to newly obsessed-over songs. Not anything deep or profound, and yet, these letters are often the highlight of my day.
and chocolate, of which I got TOO MUCH of for christmas. If I start on that, however, it will turn into a rant. I need sleep.
