Sunday, July 27, 2008

I really do dislike titles. I find them tedious at least and daunting at most. I am all over the map, I am reading Clan of the Cave Bear, but find that it is an easy book to set down. I picked up the newest rage in reading Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer and it is excellent. Honestly I did not think I was going to like it what with all the hype and it being about vampires. But it is really, really good. Well the series as a whole thus far is amazing. You cannot put the books down. I am finding this poetry writing to be difficult but incredibly satisfying and fun. I get more enjoyment and a sense of accomplishment from penning poems than stories. Perhaps because they can be so short and you are able to end them abruptly without anyone seeing it as such.

Friday, July 18, 2008

Reading Challenges Revisited

So I was reading over the Herding Cats challenge and saw that the minimum is three books, so I am officially giving up on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I am in the long process of reading Possesion by A.S Byatt. It is an excellent book but a bit longish. I actually had to renew it from the library. I like to take books out from the library because they put a time limit for how long you get to read the book. That is how I finally managed to read Atlas Shrugged, which is one of my favorite books. So I will try to read Clan of the Cave Bear next. So busy trying to write a sestina for my writing class, why are we doing something they did in the twelfth century? Of course they had time for nonsense like that back then. Now working full time, reading challenges and school? Not a chance. Oh well.