The Januaries |
I don't know what it is about January that leaves me in this weird state. The cold, the dark? Anyway, the only remedy I know is some light reading. Funny, sad, drama-filled, but definitely plot driven. None of this "cerebral" stuff, I just want to wrap up in my snuggie and be entertained for a few hours. |
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The Time Traveler's Wife
After months of looking at the book on my shelf, and prodding from multiple people, I finally picked up The Time Traveler’s Wife this week and read it. It was not a disappointment at all. After the first section I was immediately sucked in, reading every spare moment I had.Henry is man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel. He meets Clare at the library when he is 28 and she is 20. She has known him since she was 6. The novel follows their unique relationship and also composes its own conception of time.
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The Golden Woods - written by Maggie Stiefvater
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"As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air."
Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater
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Shiver trailer by Maggie Stiefvater
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Shiver
A new genre has caught the attention of mainstream America - vampire & werewolf novels. We can thank Stephenie Meyer and her alluring story of an inter-species romance for that. It’s not that she had a unique idea or anything, just that “those” novels were for hardcore sci-fi and fantasy fans. Thanks to her, now anyone can read one of these novels without feeling ashamed. The hype of the twilight-esque “dark romance” novels didn’t only attract love-sick adolescents, it also attracted a new set of YA authors with their own stories to tell.A friend of mine lent me the book Shiver a few weeks ago and I got sucked in immediately. After being attacked as a child by a pack of wolves, Grace becomes fascinated with the wolves, especially one. Little does she know her wolf, Sam, also watches her. When the two finally come face to face, as humans, they realize that they’d sacrifice anything to stay together.
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Just finished rereading Catcher. That book will never get old.
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"What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t, you feel even worse."
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
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Part 2 of The Catcher In The Rye discussion.
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Kissing
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the truck parked in front of our house.
autumn 2009.
portland, oregon.
