Weird..

[indigofan]

So- I read a lot. Most of you know this.

I'm currently plugging through The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood.. it's having a very strange effect. I'm usually pretty good at putting a book down and leaving it until I pick it back up. That is to say, I won't be thinking about it constantly, and it won't affect me while I'm not reading it. I DO

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[pellechs]

DON'T PUT IT DOWN!!! You Will Love It.
It's one of my absolute faves.

I get into just about everything I read this way. I have trouble distinguishing the novel from real life. I see places in my life in the novel-- My downstairs bathroom in NJ was featured prominently in "Handmaid" and the Maine farm is now a hippie commune called Drop City. I hear the narrator's voice in my head. I dream about it. I talk like the characters.

This is why I can't read 2 books in a row by the same author. I'm afraid they will take over my life. Movies don't have this effect on me, I think because it's only 2 hours out of my world. I live the book for weeks.

[indigofan]

Oh Erin, this is why I love you.

Actually- that is WHY I often read multiple books in a row by the same author, especially if they're set in the same world. I like being able to go away somewhere else for a while, and if I really delve into the world, it will stay with me.

But yeah, I have no intention of putting this one down, I really want to see how it ends. I just am surprised that it's giving me.. well.. nightmares, I guess. Not in the traditional sense, but I don't know what else to call them.

[pellechs]

Srsly, I get a little coo coo for cocoa puffs. I'm afraid if I get too close to an author's voice I will lose myself entirely.

As far as I can remember, I've only given up on 2 books in my life, one of which was Drop City. It was making me very anxious because I made it about a place that I knew. I just didn't want to go to the bad place in my head. I don't deal with descriptive animal deaths well either. Though it would be cool to have a pool and a tree house in Maine..

[pellechs]

Yeah, I find that sentence formation is the biggest part for me too. "Why am I leaving out all pronouns? Oh right, reading Bridget Jones' Diary..."

[pellechs]

a) I read everything. Really. EVERYTHING.
b) BOTH Bridget Jones books are absolutely hysterical, and actually pretty well written.
c) I would not recommend her other book, Olivia Joules. That one was just terrible.

[indigofan]

Oh! I thought the first movie was hilarious. The second one sucked, but that's usually the way.

[pellechs]

Oh c'mon, the movies are awesome and silly.

I like Olivia the pig. Those books are fantastic.

[indigofan]

Was that book as amusing as the movie? If so, I should read it.

[indigofan]

*chuckle*

Oh, Jane Austen.