Books Again
Tonight's kind of a lazy one, my excuse being that I've got to sleep early in order to wake up for an Important Meeting that's happening at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. Considering that this entire quarter I've gotten into the habit of waking at 11:30AM, I need to be in bed early so I can avoid arriving at aforementioned meeting groggy and croaking. (Good to know I still have some dignity left.)
It's nearly the end of Week 8 and I need to make a finals study schedule for the next two weeks, but my mentality couldn't be further from one of studying. I'm currently craving books, and I spent a good part of this evening coming up with a small reading list!
nyxt highly recommended Paper Towns to me in her latest letter. So after my psych experiment today, I headed over to the bookstore, grabbed the only copy they had, and planted my ass in front of the teen fantasy/sci-fi section for a good while. The verdict: utterly engrossing! I'm only 50 pages in and can't wait to go to back there to continue. Reminds me way too much of high school, though in a good nostalgic kind of way. A search for the cover image brought me to Nerdfighters, which is apparently a social networking site for nerds that the author, John Green, is affiliated with. He does reader Q&A videos, the most recent being this one posted two days ago:
Made me laugh. I wonder how much this would apply to MV. How to define nerdiness in a school so inherently nerdy we had nerd hierarchies and sub-orders? Mr. Green also demonstrates his obvious lack of personal experience with nerd boys in regards to romance when he touts their virtues so enthusiastically at the end. Hmm. Moving on...
Next up is The Thirteenth Tale and The House at Riverton - both obviously inspired by the Bronte sisters and Daphne DuMaurier, to my delight! I've just been craving gothic-style romances, and these two seem to fit the bill perfectly. I know The Thirteenth Tale has been floating around bestseller's shelves for the longest time too, and I can't believe I didn't notice it sooner. Guess it's just my old habit of glossing over the bestsellers and heading directly for classics and fantasy.
I'm also currently making slow progress through George Eliot's Middlemarch. Slow progress because it's a hefty volume to carry around, otherwise I'd be reading it everywhere I went if it were pocket sized. So many books, too little time!
It's nearly the end of Week 8 and I need to make a finals study schedule for the next two weeks, but my mentality couldn't be further from one of studying. I'm currently craving books, and I spent a good part of this evening coming up with a small reading list!
nyxt highly recommended Paper Towns to me in her latest letter. So after my psych experiment today, I headed over to the bookstore, grabbed the only copy they had, and planted my ass in front of the teen fantasy/sci-fi section for a good while. The verdict: utterly engrossing! I'm only 50 pages in and can't wait to go to back there to continue. Reminds me way too much of high school, though in a good nostalgic kind of way. A search for the cover image brought me to Nerdfighters, which is apparently a social networking site for nerds that the author, John Green, is affiliated with. He does reader Q&A videos, the most recent being this one posted two days ago:
Made me laugh. I wonder how much this would apply to MV. How to define nerdiness in a school so inherently nerdy we had nerd hierarchies and sub-orders? Mr. Green also demonstrates his obvious lack of personal experience with nerd boys in regards to romance when he touts their virtues so enthusiastically at the end. Hmm. Moving on...
Click to viewNext up is The Thirteenth Tale and The House at Riverton - both obviously inspired by the Bronte sisters and Daphne DuMaurier, to my delight! I've just been craving gothic-style romances, and these two seem to fit the bill perfectly. I know The Thirteenth Tale has been floating around bestseller's shelves for the longest time too, and I can't believe I didn't notice it sooner. Guess it's just my old habit of glossing over the bestsellers and heading directly for classics and fantasy.
I'm also currently making slow progress through George Eliot's Middlemarch. Slow progress because it's a hefty volume to carry around, otherwise I'd be reading it everywhere I went if it were pocket sized. So many books, too little time!