Not much of a poster.
I know I haven't been using this blog at all. Only keep logging in to check the stories of my favorite simmers & stalk their chapters obsessively because no one I know loves the sims like I do. & that's okay. So I just use this blog for nothing? Idk. I use blogger for blogging because things are quiet over there, private even though privacy +internet = NOT, I I like over there because only my best friend and his boyfriend follow me because they found my email but that's no biggie. I rather no one else read it though. No other social networking is connected to it. & I called it my therapy/rant blog so that none of my other social networks friends comment on it. I don't want their opinions, I just want to write & write about reading so without further ado I present the reason why I live- BOOKS :D and to keep track of just what I read and when because I like lists like that.
It's about damn time I post this. Since spring reading time will be coming up soon.
Winter break 09' December 09- January '10:
And I started with
1. The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke.
I adored it for it's fuck up-ness of it all. Short, simple, and yet unnerving in it's portrayal of reality when it just goes wrong and there is nothing more ordinary than that. And yes it's that Ethan Hawke who wrote it.
2. Destination: Morgue!: L.A. Tales by James Ellroy.
I was amused and then he lost me. It started out as CSI and then it just blended in, there are some very good stories in this collections, and others not as good.
3.World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks.
Just plain AWESOME :D
4. No Time to Wave Goodbye: Jacquelyn Mitchard
Sweet sequel, but The Deep End of the Ocean still has my heart.
5. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
What a mindfuck, and how lovely it is.
6. Impulse, Ellen Hopkins
and
7. Identical by Ellen Hopkins.
Both separate novels but I love Hopkins' writing so much that I was binging on her work.
8. The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz (Comic book form) edited by Eric Shanower
Just beautifully done.
9. City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff.
A seriously underrated writer. I thought 25th Hour was bad ass and Benioff outdid himself in City of Thieves. One of my faves. Just breathtaking.
10. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Might be the only children classic I didn't get into. Something about the narration not connecting with me. I liked it, just not connected with it.
11. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin.
School's Book club requirement. I was skeptical because of it's grim covered and thought I would not enjoy. Oh how wrong. I enjoyed, greatly.
12. Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
I adored this YA mystery, just adored to the point of picking it for my own personal book club, and so far so good, everyone has loved it, and how exciting, we're going to have a skype chat with the author at our next book club meeting :D
13. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
A classic, a weird book, creepy.
14. The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon.
Another underrated YA, this one a memoir often mistaken for a novel because no one can hate themselves fully to set themselves on fire, could they?
15. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. I was finally pressured into reading it. Enough said.
16. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. Very well written, especially for a person who was "unstable". Ends abruptly.
17. Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie.
Don't ask me why I didn't read this before. It's a classic for a reason. <3
18. Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
Another Hopkins' book, and my last one before school officially kicked in with a new semester. And I really finished with a bang that this book offers. Hopkins just brings out the worse in humanity in YA Novels pair with the best of her writing, making us aware that how we were taught as who are bad guys, those stranger dangers, are just ordinary people and how easy it is to fall into a path you thought only 'troublemakers' fell into.
--- And unfortunately that's all I had time to read for in my winter break. Many visits from both family and going about with friends, distracted me from reading and writing too much. I'm hoping that Spring Break will help but as for now, school days are lovely in these gray cast skies.
I'm already looking at Spring break, drooling over what I will be able to read.
ATM- I am reading Stranger in a Strange Land- Robert A.Heinlein. It's my bedtime companion & so sad I can only read a bit at a time because of school. :(
It's about damn time I post this. Since spring reading time will be coming up soon.
Winter break 09' December 09- January '10:
And I started with
1. The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke.
I adored it for it's fuck up-ness of it all. Short, simple, and yet unnerving in it's portrayal of reality when it just goes wrong and there is nothing more ordinary than that. And yes it's that Ethan Hawke who wrote it.
2. Destination: Morgue!: L.A. Tales by James Ellroy.
I was amused and then he lost me. It started out as CSI and then it just blended in, there are some very good stories in this collections, and others not as good.
3.World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks.
Just plain AWESOME :D
4. No Time to Wave Goodbye: Jacquelyn Mitchard
Sweet sequel, but The Deep End of the Ocean still has my heart.
5. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
What a mindfuck, and how lovely it is.
6. Impulse, Ellen Hopkins
and
7. Identical by Ellen Hopkins.
Both separate novels but I love Hopkins' writing so much that I was binging on her work.
8. The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz (Comic book form) edited by Eric Shanower
Just beautifully done.
9. City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff.
A seriously underrated writer. I thought 25th Hour was bad ass and Benioff outdid himself in City of Thieves. One of my faves. Just breathtaking.
10. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Might be the only children classic I didn't get into. Something about the narration not connecting with me. I liked it, just not connected with it.
11. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin.
School's Book club requirement. I was skeptical because of it's grim covered and thought I would not enjoy. Oh how wrong. I enjoyed, greatly.
12. Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
I adored this YA mystery, just adored to the point of picking it for my own personal book club, and so far so good, everyone has loved it, and how exciting, we're going to have a skype chat with the author at our next book club meeting :D
13. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
A classic, a weird book, creepy.
14. The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon.
Another underrated YA, this one a memoir often mistaken for a novel because no one can hate themselves fully to set themselves on fire, could they?
15. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. I was finally pressured into reading it. Enough said.
16. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. Very well written, especially for a person who was "unstable". Ends abruptly.
17. Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie.
Don't ask me why I didn't read this before. It's a classic for a reason. <3
18. Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
Another Hopkins' book, and my last one before school officially kicked in with a new semester. And I really finished with a bang that this book offers. Hopkins just brings out the worse in humanity in YA Novels pair with the best of her writing, making us aware that how we were taught as who are bad guys, those stranger dangers, are just ordinary people and how easy it is to fall into a path you thought only 'troublemakers' fell into.
--- And unfortunately that's all I had time to read for in my winter break. Many visits from both family and going about with friends, distracted me from reading and writing too much. I'm hoping that Spring Break will help but as for now, school days are lovely in these gray cast skies.
I'm already looking at Spring break, drooling over what I will be able to read.
ATM- I am reading Stranger in a Strange Land- Robert A.Heinlein. It's my bedtime companion & so sad I can only read a bit at a time because of school. :(