It took me something like five hours (with breaks for internet and other things) to finish the thing and it... wasn't bad? ( Not an auspicious beginning to a review, that. )

So what has happened lately is that this is day 43 of my medicine taking and I have now graduated to two pills a day. I'm not really feeling much different, but that could be since I've been dead tired since about two weeks before Christmas until now. Just tired. Tired all the fucking time, but when I try to sleep I can't and then I spend the night ( Read more... )

I just finished Wuthering Heights, oh, thank god in heaven. It took me something like three weeks to read, and now I think I need a bath ( Read more... )

So! An impromptu movie review ( Read more... )

When I was about, oh, nine or ten years old one of my very, very favorite books to read was The Secret Garden, also by Hodgson Burnett. I knew she had written other books, but that was my happy place to come back to again and again. Even now, reading about little Missee Sahib Mary brings me back to being ten and almost being able to smell India -- ( Read more... )

One of the things I always notice when I read Palahniuk is that I always get this feeling like there's a space behind the words, something big and dark and echoing and not exactly scary but unsettling. Reading this guy's books will invariably leave me unsettled, and in many cases also kind of squirmy. Physically uncomfortable ( Read more... )

So! Middle of the night last night I finished Let The Right One In (which I refer to by it's English title, despite having read it in Swedish, it's easier that way), and I was dead fucking tired so I thought I'd save the review to the morning. After a night of restless dreaming about it -- no, seriously -- here we are ( Read more... )

This is the fourth book off that list I'm finishing off and this was yet another one of those that felt like a personal triumph. Originally I was to read it for my history of literature and culture class but I only got through half of it that time, despite it being a short, short thing of 110 pages in paperback. I still managed that class though, ( Read more... )

I finally, finally finished Language Myths -- another one of those God Is Not Great type books that takes foreeeeeever to finish -- and my iTunes, in a fit of stunning appropriateness, started playing Händel's Hallelujah! from the Messiah oratorio ( Read more... )

Good morning all, and happy birthday to Mr. Gerard Arthur Way (esquire) and Miss Maryam, idktbhI've got shit to do today -- room to clean, etc. -- so I figured I would get this over with now, before I forget. (I kind of feel like my LJ is getting really dull lately. I blame twitter.) Anyway ( Read more... )