reading this little bundle of joy for Existentialist Fiction next tuesday. midterms are next week and no matter how much i try to prep for them i still feel wildly unprepared… i just want the homework, the snow, the stress to get the f outta here.
+ side : was lulled into such a deep meditation yesterday that i felt a huge boost of creative energy. wrote a piece of flash fiction that i really like :)
whooooaaa just finished this collection of short stories. if you’re into gorgeous prose / nostalgia / failing marriages / affairs / regret / scandal / missed chances / books that go really well with 2 glasses of wine : meet James Salter.
(Source: goodreads.com)
Well…didn’t quite reach my goal of 20 books in 2012, but I don’t think 13 is so bad! I feel like I am always doing homework, working, or am out and about somewhere, so I still find myself proud of this number. For 2013 I think I’ll set the same goal, not quite with the intention of reaching it haha, but at least with the hope that I will do better than I did this year!
Finished Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything last night. “Sex and the City meets Mad Men,” “vintage chick lit”…whatever you want to call it, it was that, and it was engaging, insightful, and every time I snuggled up by the couch next to our Christmas tree reading it for hours, I felt like I was at a girly sleepover. I enjoyed this novel so much that I decided not too stay too far for my next one - Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls. Oh yeah. From the back cover description it sounds like pure pleasure reading, but I am hoping for a bit of depth and intelligence too.
Be my friend and stuff if you have a Goodreads account…I like to see what everyone’s reading!
I remember reading this part in the bathtub, crying one of those loud, shameless cries.
(via yourfellowclassmate)
Feel strange after finishing Lev Grossman’s The Magician King. Overall I loved the book - very witty and exciting, and I love that this series has gotten me to read fantasy, which I really haven’t done much. But the end bummed me out. What’s worse than reading a book that you really are enjoying, only to get literary blue balls over a frustrating ending?? Shit sucks. Honestly, I’d still suggest the series (start with The Magicians, there are only two books so far but I think another in the making) and it’s very possible that my complaints with the end of this one are nit-picky and the result of my irritable mood.
I’ve got The Handmaid’s Tale and The Beautiful and the Damned already downloaded to my kindle, so I’ll probably dip into one of those next? I’ve been itching to read a real live actual (gasp!) paperback book, but the kindle’s super convenient for reading at work. Anyway, have two books down this summer already which is pretty cool!
