Alright, so I wanted to show off. I was proud, ok!

( BBC's Big Read )

And do any of you want to tell me how to a) get into this book and start caring? b) what the main points I should know are? Because I really, really, cannot get into it. I'm halfway through and it is just not happening in any way. I couldn't tell you what happened ten pages ago. I'm just not enjoying or even reading it ( Read more... )

If I could write something as amazing as The God of Small Things, I would cry. One day I want to be able to write something that beautiful. You know there are books that you remember, that you can't forget, that bits of just pop up from time to time in your brain as something achingly beautiful or memorable or poignant? This is one of those books. ( Read more... )