#001 - entry date changed from 2004 -> 2029

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[johnsheppardluv]

i have glasses. and i'm a girl. *lol* and you gave me neverwhere (from you know where). and i liiiiiiked it. and so i am here interested because of your generosity and cool siggy. i am also scotch (and part irish and cherokee too, but i swear that's all). but yeah - my name is Sharma and i was born oct 11 1983. and i like reading and writing (but NOT if there are research papers involved). so - it seems we already have a few things in common. :)

i am also a HP, CS Lewis, Phillip Pullmam, and HUGE RDJ fan. i haven't yet got into twilight tho, so maybe you can help "turn" me? ;)

as for uni? i am fixing to go onto grad school, but it took me longer to get to this point than most. this is my last semester (and my fifth and a half year, to be precise). but hopefully i shall get into some grad school for the fall of 2009 at the latest, as most MFAs are only offered then for where i want to go.

Anyway, my LJ is pretty open if you want to know more. :) and oh yeah i MAY have a passing fixation on Chris Potter. And on Michael Shanks (WITH glasses please...*grin*), Joe Flanigan, Jason Momoa, David Hewlett, AND with the characters they all play (on SG-1 & Stargate: Atlantis respectively).

my fave books tho usually are of a scifi or fantasy nature, as i like writing those kinds of books as well. :) so - wat do YOU think of when you think of good literature?

~hopefully, a new pal
of yours, Sharma, who has
friended you and hope you don't mind :)

PS My fave colors? jungle or alien green, cerulean blue, and deep purple. :)

[scotlanded]

Oh my goodness that's a lot of information! Haha :D

I'm sort of leaving my own Twilight obsession. I still enjoy it well enough, and I still read Twilight fanfiction because graduate school is hard and fanfiction does not require thinking XD But other than that, it's not as OMG PRESENT in my life as it was a few months ago.

Yeah, most programs in general only accept for the Fall, but I would recommend getting on it early! I made up my mind about this time last year to go to grad school and then did nothing for a great long while and ended up rushing at the end to get everything in on time. Yeah, you'll likely have until January or February but procrastination is not your friend when it comes to graduate school XD

Good literature is so subjective! I've read fantastic YA lit that is definitely good literature and I've read crap adult fiction that would work better as kindling for a fire! I don't care for the majority of Austen or Eyre, but it's certainly respectable literature. I don't have a whole lot of time, so my "book reading" is now "book listening" because I have to take the bus into school/work every day. My Gaiman interests are extremely recent (only a few days!) and I've spent my morning doing laundry and listening to Good Omens, which is ridiculously good.

And I'm going to add you now XD

[johnsheppardluv]

YAY! :) Neil Gaiman is a relative recent love of mine as well actually. i ran into american gods over this past winter. literally. ok. SORTA literally. ;)

i ran into this chick in my winter/december-2007 intercession class who was reading a big ol book and A.G. is wat it turned out to be. i think it was the UK PB version tho, cuz it was like three TIMES the size of the PB book i got. and i couldn't find that girl's version of it to save my life. :(

but that didn't stop me from getting the version that i COULD get. and then, not even a full semester later from that fateful bump in the light, i got a second gaiman brush (summer school 2008 to be exact). i got to read anansi boys for a class called urban fantasy. it was fun and so was the book. unfortunately, with the lack of time, i was never able to quite finish AG, but hopefully i'll have time to do so soon. i DEFINITELY rec anansi boys to you as another good gaiman book. it's more about humor and wordplay than dark drama and erotic/supernatural horror, and quite frankly gaiman is better for it too. :) fast, clippy comedy is his strongest suit, rather than drawn out angst, tho he IS good at that too. and, yes, anansi boys is an A.G. sequel, but NOT in the traditional MUST-READ-A.G.-FIRST sense of the word. ;)

i could never stand Austen. i wanted to gouge my eyes out with a spoon every time i was made to read P&P (3 times and counting). i guess i just don't see what's so great about her. and i hate that men writers still seem to pigeonhold women writers into being just romance writers. it irritates me to no end, especially because there are way more exceptions to that "rule" now... *sigh*

sorry for rambling. :( *lol*

i totally agree with you tho! :) Good literature IS totally subjective! One man OR woman's trash is another's treasure, and vice-versa. ;)

~your pal,
Sharma