Journal: Summer Haze

[regulus_a_b]

I really must state the fact that I've been reading excessively this break. Nothing of literary merit, however, mostly a number of historical texts and class preparation books. Does anybody have any recommendations for me? I'm up for almost all genres of fiction, provided I know what the book may contain in a general sense before perusing it.

Comments

[mischief_major]

I recommend reading "How Not to Make My Brother's Friends Ask After Me in Their Letters." Might be educational for you. And if you don't learn anything, there's always the sequal, "Ouch! Sirius Black Has Just Hexed My Nads Off!"

What've you done to Remus, you great git? Why does he want me to say hello to you?

[regulus_a_b]

It's slightly disturbing how our ages seem reversed when written in text.

Alright, I'll admit it. I allowed him an outlet for intelligent conversation. Radical, I know, but it was a simple necessity.

[mischief_major]

Well, if it was simply a necessity, then I suppose I can understand. And you'll understand when I come over there and kill you, I am quite certain, because it is a simple necessity that I do so.

Remus is my friend.

[regulus_a_b]

That does not in anyway mean he cannot be mine.

Why are you so territorial?

[young_sev]

I have something of an affinity for Shakespeare, but as for recent books of any kind, I'm rather useless, I'm afraid.

[regulus_a_b]

That's perfectly fine, one can never have enough of the classics.

[young_sev]

Indeed, yes.

[howlsoftly]

Wilde. I think you'd probably enjoy some of his essays and pontifications more than his plays, though. And his poetry simply wouldn't suit you at all.

But if not Wilde, some of the Shakespearean "tragedies" are rather amusing, as Miss Holloway has suggested.

[regulus_a_b]

Poetry rarely suits me, something to do with how I think...

[howlsoftly]

Thus, his essays. Especially The Critic as an Artist... Or was it the other way around...? I've no head for titles.

[regulus_a_b]

Titles are usually irrelevant for a close read piece of text. I might prefer all books to be carefully untitled, actually.