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On All Consuming, I’m reading MLA’s 30 books adults should read before they die. On my most recent trip to the library, I checked out Life of Pi (Yann Martel) and David Copperfeild (Charles Dickens). I am not going too quickly (I used to read above my grade level but now I’m afraid I’ve gotten slower and worse, I blame dyslexia or something like that). I am guessing it’s gonna tale me 2 checkouts to get through it, especially with school starting.

I have read a lot this semester, I can’t say I’ve done all the required reading. I’ve never managed to do that so far (when you’re studying literature, it’s not possible to ever read enough). It hasn’t done me any harm, yet. :)
I’ll keep this goal for next semester, though. Maybe I’ll be able to do all the required reading one day…

I’ve finally gotten around to starting The Centaur by John Updike…so far I’m loving it!

I read In An Instant by Bob and Lee Woodruff.

read and learn

reading Bernard Werber’s “Us, Gods”
I like it so far, though his “The Empire of the Angels” was way better.

Since my last entry a mere two weeks ago I have read…Prep by Curtis Sittenfield…High School Confidential by Jeremy Iversen and I’m nearly finished with New Moon by Stephenie Meyer…this is insane…

adult fairytales or re-tellings of old fairytales: A.S. Byatt’s The Djinn in the Nightingale’s eye and Patricia McKillip’s Harrowing the dragon. Both good. Two of the Byatt short stories were actually lifted from Possession, one of my favourite books, which was a bit unfair I thought – but the final story, “The Djinn in the nightingale’s eye” itself made up for this disappointment. Byatt’s wonderful.

McKillip’s my favourite fantasy author, and a great writer too, but I’m trying to put my finger on what makes one of them a Writer and the second a genre writer. I wonder whether it’s the fact that I always know McKillip’s stories will have happy endings – and that’s why it’s called ‘fantasy’? I’m not sure if this is unfair to her or not.

In any case, I liked them both.

Book one of summer is finished. It took a while for me to get through this one. I typically breeze through religious-related non-fiction, but this was a little intensely written. Well done as far as presenting arguments goes. Certainly learned a lot, but not my favorite.

I’ve started Twilight…my god, its probably one of the best books I’ve read in a while…i was a little wary about it, seen as how people had built it up to be this amazing entity, but they were right…I started it two days ago and I’m more than halfway through…averaging about 100 pages a day…I always get really into whatever I’m reading…but I feel like I’m falling in love with Edward Cullen, which is…weird…lol
Why oh Why couldn’t I have been this excited over the required readings I had for class?