Redempting Entry for my lack of posts...?

[a_neverending]

Hello everyone,

and here I am, just like I promised in the last rant “when I have better things to do.” My third semester started last monday and yes, I have work to do. Much work. One of my beloved To-Do-Lists is currently tagged to a pile of books left hand from my laptop, and It’s long. But since half of the day passed without me actually working on it, I thought I might as well do some catching up in my journal afore really starting the work. There is much I’ve got to rant about, but since I won’t have the time to do it all now, I’ll go for it step by step, and the first step is to not-loose-track of my challenge. So. Here are the Book Reviews you guys missed.
Book #02 - Hagakure I
Book #03 - Thirst for Love
Book #04 - Elegance of the Hedgehog
Book #05 - Novellas of death


I already finished Book #06 - Artemis Fowl, but I don’t have time to review it yet. I’m currently reading “Frische Goldjungs”, “Emma” and “Sleepy Hollow” and plan to finish those in October. I have no clue what I’ll do in November, as I mentioned before university dropped a pile of workload on me I’m already annoyed by. But be as it may, I’ll Include a new and updated an shiny version of my “To-Read-List” from a previous entry. What I already read has got a √ behind it and will be bold. Oh, and don’t be confused, the list grew ‘a bit’.

1. A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin
2. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin √
3. A Great Deliverance, Elizabeth George
4. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
5. All the Weyrs of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
6. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
7. And the Ass Saw the Angel, Nick Cave
8. Animal Farm, George Orwell
9. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
10. Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
11. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer √
12. Asylum, Patrick McGrath
13. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
14. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
15. Cocaine Nights, J. G. Ballard
16. Danse Macabre, Stephen King
17. Das Traumfresserchen, Michael Ende
18. Der Niemandsgarten, Michael Ende
19. Dragondrums, Anne McCaffrey
20. Emma, Jane Austen
21. Eric, Terry Pratchett
22.  Fevre Dream, George R. R. Martin
23. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
24. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
25. Hagakure I, Tsunemoto Yamamoto √
26. Hagakure II, Tsunemoto Yamamoto
27. Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton
28. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
29. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
30. Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King
31. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
32. Kokoro, Natsume Sōseki
33. L’Élégance du hérisson, Muriel Barbery √
34. Lady Susan, Jane Austen
35. Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec
36. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
37. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
38. Misery, Stephen King
39. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
40. Momo, Michael Ende
41. Mort, Terry Pratchett
42. Myths of old Japan, Nelly Naumann
43. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
44. No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai.
45. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
46. Northanger Abby, Jane Austen
47. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
48. Novellas of Death, Edgar Allan Poe* √
49. Ophelias Schattentheater, Michael Ende
50. Paradise Lost, John Milton
51. Payment in Blood, Elizabeth George
52. Persuasion, Jane Austen
53. Pretty Little Liars, Sara Shepard
54. Remnant Population, Elizabeth Moon
55. Sourcery, Terry Pratchett
56. Symbol, Dan Brown
57. Tales of Dunk and Egg, George RR Martin
58. The Bell jar, Sylvia Plath
59. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
60. The Chivalry of Crime, Desmond Barry
61. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
62. The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
63. The Dolphins of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
64. The Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
65. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King
66. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
67. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
68. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
69. The Hound of Baskerville, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
70. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
71. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
72. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett
73. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
74. The Outsider, Albert Camus
75. The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde
76. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
77. The Stand, Stephen King
78. The Tale of the Body Thief, Anne Rice
79. The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
80. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
81. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffery Eugenides
82. The World According to Garp, John Irving
83. Thirst for Love, Yukio Mishima √
84. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
85. Ulysses, James Joyce
86. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
87. Watership Down, Richard Adams
88. Well-Schooled Murder, Elizabeth George
89. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett

You’ll not be surprised that I’ve come to the conclusion that this list has it’s own mind and likes to grow and morph. I might come to delete a few works mentioned here later on, I’m only a little student after all, and my budget is very limited. Good for me that Christmas is coming up, and there are some fleamarkets on their way. Next weekend, in fact, I’m much looking forward to that.

And I’m looking forward to an occasion on which I’ll update all of this here, too. There are Lists to come, some Memes, some Rants, and of cause I’ve got to resume writing about my (almost) favourite event of the year: NaNoWriMo. It’s starting once again at the first of Nevember, and it’d be my third year to give it a try. Though I’ve never been less prepared to do it. I’ve got literally no idea what I might write about. My Muses are a bit bitchy this year, I’ve not written anything since April or May, I guess. Even my work from Camp NaNo doesn’t count. We’ll see what I’ll make of it. Perhaps I’ll merely resume my work on a former NaNo-Project, though I don’t feel much like doing that. I shall think about it.

And now I shall finally start working again. Feel hugged and loved,
Sirrah