2015 reading challenge: My inner demon rests

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Book with Bad Reviews: 50 Shades Freed

1. finally done


2. My inner demon swallows Ana's inner goddess whole

No category: Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume

1. Wish I would have read Judy Blume books when I was younger. The first one I read was Summer Sisters in 2009, which was okay because it was meant for adults. But I didn't get to read her YA and MG books when I was 10-16 or whatever.


2. Did they really have "listener group"s for music classes? That's so mean!

Book by an author you love but haven't read before: How to (Un)cage a Girl by Francesca Lia Block

1. her poetry is a lot darker than her fiction

Written by a woman: O, Canada by Jan Morris

1. She really loves the word grandiloquent. Or grandiloquence.


2. Ragged Ass Road, Yellowknife

Book by someone under 30: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

1. Was a lot easier to read than I expected, and funny. I can see how a lot of YA writers would be inspired by it. Perhaps the fact that it's so easy to read, is one of the reasons why old men like to shit on it. If it doesn't take you weeks to read, it isn't literature to them.


2. Wish she would have given The Negro a name though. Bill, there, is that so hard.


3. kerb? titbits?


4. It actually did take me longer to read than it should have. I had a library copy, read 5 chapters, went to bed. Woke up with bed bug bites. Found the bed bug and sprayed my bed with insecticide, washed my bedding, slept on the couch for two nights. The first night I slept in my bed again was so nerve-wracking. I think it was just that one bug. I brought the book back to the library in a plastic bag. A librarian from another branch called me asking why it was in the bag. They sent it to her like that, that's so fucking rude. You think librarians would be more considerate of other librarians. Anyway, it shook me up, don't feel like explaining.

Spoilers: Esther almost bleeds to death after sex and takes it so well. She's all "ah, whatevs"


Book from your childhood: Matilda by Roald Dahl

1. Fave of his so far


2. We read this in grade four, but I really only remembered one part. The margerine bit. My teacher made a big deal of how poor people buy margerine rather than butter. We only bought margerine, so I felt bad about it.


3. I watched a lot of r-rated movies when I was little, but none of them messed me up as much as the cake scene from the movie. I watched it recently, still effective.


4. Feel sorry for the 10 year olds or whatnot who read it and are like "I'm gonna read the books that Matilda read". They must have been really disappointed.

Books from Matilda (bold means I have it but haven't read it):

• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett


• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens


• Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens


• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens


• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë


• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen


• Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy


• Gone to Earth by Mary Webb


• Kim by Rudyard Kipling


• The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells


• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway


• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner


• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck


• The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley


• Brighton Rock by Graham Greene


• Animal Farm by George Orwell


• Moby Dick by Herman Melville


• Ivanhoe by Walter Scott


• The Red Pony by John Steinbeck


• Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie