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I am almost done with this book. I love it so much. It has so many stories that make me feel good and smile. It makes me look forward to my days and what could come in the future. If you love tea read this book. Even if you don’t they have books about all kinds of things that people might fancy. This book is 5 stars!!!

Can’t wait to get started!

I’m scanning through a bunch of “must-read” lists. Need to go to the library NOW, these all seem so interesting! :)

I’m trying to read more classic novels, and so far, in the past couple of weeks, I’ve done ‘Emma’ (Jane Austen) and ‘A Room with a View’ (E.M. Forster). I really enjoyed both of them! Any suggestions for what to read next?

reading Aspidistra by George Orwell right now.

09/03/2008 – A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
09/13/2008 – When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris
09/16/2008 – Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
09/18/2008 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
09/25/2008 – The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
10/08/2008 – The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

i’d like to read more books, news-papers and magazines. I waste so much time flipping through blog-posts forums. I should be more focused on reading “quality-content”.

I’ve been going on a Poirot and Marple binge recently, Ready about 14 novels and more short storys of Christies, I want to read all of her novels unfortunently My library doesn’t have all and I am a cheap bastard, So I will just have to read all they have.
Recently I’ve been reading some old books like The Communist Manifesto(Which was rather boring) and Even Attempted “The Death of Socrated” by Plato which I didn’t read as I had to return it and I didn’t get around the reading it in the few weeks I had it.
So I want to read that.

Although I took a short break from reading, from everything really, I started up again a few days ago along with my writing. I just finished reading the Ain’t Nobody’s Buisness If I Do by Valerie Wilson Wesley. Another good book filled with exciting drama. It was like a soap opera in a book, I constantly found myself wide-eyed and shocked at the events. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

That book wasn’t on the Oprah’s book club list but I found it on my aunt’s book shelf which is like a tiny library in itself and it caught my attention. I had originally planned to read Measure of a Man by Sidney Poiter but it didnt hold my focus. Its a book that I can read and can see myself getting into but I was drawn to something else, something fiction. I think I’ll read a few more fiction novels before I go back to his autobiography.

I printed out the list of books that are part of Oprah’s book club and it turns out my aunt has ten of them on her shelf already. It woulda been eleven but I’d borrowed one of them a few years back, only read about 1/4th of it and now I don’t know where it is. It was actually a good book maybe I’ll take it out of the library and read it next.

Im going to try to read more books. This is going to be a hard goal. But I think I might be able to do it. I wanna read more.

First, I need more books because the books I have are shit-books I had when I was like 7 years old. I ordered 3 books in school but I dont know when they’re coming.

I should just wait for the books I ordered to come in, start reading those often then take it from there. :D

I really do need to exercise my brain. Its probably like a slushy by now. ^_

I was watching “Network” and it opened my eyes to see the distortion televison has created in understanding what is real and fake. And through the character of Howard Beale, I have learned exactly what has happened:

“We’re in a lot of trouble! Because you people, and sixty-two million other Americans, are listening to me right now. Because less than three percent of you people read books! Because less than fifteen percent of you read newspapers! Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn’t come out of this tube! This tube is the Gospel, the ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers… This tube is the most awesome God-damned force in the whole godless world, and woe is us if it ever falls in to the hands of the wrong people, And when the twelfth largest company in the world controls the most awesome God-damned propoganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network?
So, you listen to me. Listen to me: Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We’re in the boredom-killing business! So if you want the truth… Go to God! Go to your gurus! Go to yourselves! Because that’s the only place you’re ever going to find any real truth.”
- Howard Beale