I just downloaded "The Thief" by Megan Whalen Turner onto my e-reader! I've been wanting to start her novels for a long time. I've heard many good thing about it. It's awesome that I can see reading lots of fantasy novels is my homework for this trimester. 

 Have you ever read a book that was frustrating on many levels, but you wanted to finish it anyway? That's what I'm going through now. 

  I've been reading my first Tolstoy novel, Anna Karenina, and ... he really doesn't impress me that much as a writer so far. It's slow and  wonders so much; it's extremely frustrating. Normally, I wouldn't mind that too much, but it takes around 19 chapters for Anna Karenina (the titular character) to show up and start impacting the plot.

I'm up ( Read more... )

 I read The Snow Queen and few of his other tales and I have thoughts!

( I have many thoughts about fairy tales )

This meme was stolen from many people.

Pick a character and I will give and explain the top five ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them. Any and all characters welcome (including ones I haven't written but might know about...)

I haven't finished one of the stories ( Read more... )