I've figured out why I hate Jane Eyre. Or rather, I've figured out why I hate Jane Eyre so much more than my classmates. In fact, I think I've figured out why people think I hate men.

See here's the issue:

I've never liked Cinderella. I mean, I've NEVER liked Cinderella. As in, even as a four-year-old kid I hated it. I hated it because I ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, I always identified with Lucy from The Chronicles of Narnia because we were both the youngest and precocious and I wouldn't have been at all surprised to find a magical forest in the back of my wardrobe.  In retrospect, I think there was more wishful thinking than actual similarities between us, but I still feel very protective ( Read more... )

 Dear Self,

Congratulations on making it through the week and accomplishing everything you needed to accomplish.

Now you may read your new Torchwood book.

You should listen to me more often,
Your better judgment

 Dear Self,

Between now and Friday afternoon you must complete the following:

1 Test
1 Group project
1 Analysis
1 Set of quizzes to be graded
1 Gift exchange
2 Papers
4-5 Quizzes

In other words: NO YOU MAY NOT READ YOUR NEW TORCHWOOD BOOK!

I'M SERIOUS, YOUNG LADY,
Your better judgment

P.S. I MEAN IT!

P.P.S. SERIOUSLY!

P.P.P.S. Well maybe just one chapter ...

 So I started reading xlormp last month, which is unquestionably brilliant and proves just how incredibly dull and stupid and poorly written Twilight is while being several million times more entertaining than the actual book upon which it is based (the book written with words, printed on paper, and bound together with ... book binding stuff [read xlormp  and ( Read more... )

Okay, so I finished Twilight. Yet another six hours straight through, which still disturbs me. Fortunately I was expecting it this time, and I managed to retain most of my faculties and realize that nothing was happening while it didn’t happen, rather than coming out of a stupor and realizing how much I hated the book only after iTunes turned it ( Read more... )

So I just finished Part 1 of the Twilight audiobook.  I've been listening to it for almost six hours straight, which is ... kind of frightening, actually.  I just got inexplicably sucked in.  I thought the slightly annoying narrator would help with that, but it wasn't enough.  I'm not sure what chapter I'm on anymore because I didn't take notes ( Read more... )

Okay, so I downloaded the audiobook of Twilight this afternoon and listened to first four chapters.  And honestly?  I kind of hate it.  It's so, so angsty.  It's so stupidly angsty.  And Bella is kind of a bitch.  And Edward is really boring.  He's too pretty and perfect, and he's way too mysterious.  He's so mysterious, I'm not even curious about ( Read more... )

So I keep going back and forth on whether or not I should bother reading Twilight.  I keep hearing people talk about it, and the thing is, if everyone either loved or hated it, I would be more likely to read it because I think really good things provoke more extreme emotions (as do really bad things; more on that later).  But the responses from ( Read more... )