Thursday, November 16, 2006
Books
Well, I figured it was time for an update, one that doesn't have a very controversial topic. At least, I hope not. It's about books. I have been crazy lately, buying books: romance, fiction, literature (like the classics, such as King Solomon's Mine) and current events. I have been reading satire, Harlequin, drama, and mystery. This is of course, in between my insane schedule at work - every weekend. 8 hour days. On my feet. Smiling. For 8 hours. It's impossible to smile for 8 hours, continuously. Eventually, you have to just frown at something. But the babies are cute. Anyway, what are you all reading? Anything? Everything? Any good, new authors that you just have to tell someone about?
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I'm just reading the collection Sara has that interests me.. Right now it's the Star Trek: New Frontier books. Once I finish them, (about 10 i think) I might finally pick up Stephen King's The Stand.
Of course all this will be put on pause once Harry Potter VII comes out.
That's cool. I can't wait until the new Harry Potter book comes out. I've reread the entire 6 books twice already.
I, too, have been reading many romance novels. I have taken intermittent breaks to read The Great Gatsby, which was weird and full of descriptions and people that had nothing to do with the plot of the book, which, by the way, was buried under weird sounding sentences and random ramblings, that made it very difficult to understand what was going on, which is why I could not tell you exactly what the plot is even now except that Gatsby is a man who is mysterious and he befriends this other man because that man is friends with this chick that he had a relationship with in his past and wants to hook back up with but her husband is having an affair with this chick whose husband thinks Gatsby is the one she's having an affair with and who ultimately kills him. Oh, and very few show up to his funeral. Very sad. But that's all I got out of 150 pages. And I wanted to see how long I could make that sentence:)
I have also finished reading Utopia, which I think was good but again, very difficult to read. I had to read it in short spurts because I would get too bogged down in trying to understand each sentence. Finally, I gave up and decided to just glean the general meaning, which made reading it more enjoyable. It's one of those books where every few sentences has a footnote where you have to translate words into real english.
I thought Gatsby committed suicide? In the pool? Maybe I shoud reread it, I remember really disliking it the first and second times though.
Ah, yes, Sir Thomas More.
I've been rereading the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. After you get past Queen of the Damned it gets to where you kind of want to slap Lestat upside his silly head, but they're pretty good. Also been reading another Vampire series that all are like "undead and unreturnable" or whatever. She's a vampire queen named Betsy and is pretty humorous. And I just finished Born in Death by J.D. Robb about a futuristic homicide cop and hottie Irish husband. I just started a romance novel about a medieval ghost, so we'll see how that turns out before I go back to Lestat. :-)
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