Reading Challenge: Manly holds

Mar. 15th, 2015 06:30 pm
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Short Stories by Nabokov

  • Didn't expect so many would have supernatural elements.

  • "Details of a Sunset" was good

  • "La Veneziana" was also good and "manly holds", hahahaha

  • "The Dragon" was kind of cute, though sad.

Finished Party Princess

  • I've read summaries about what happens in the rest of the series. Mike/Mia is still kind of creepy to me though

  • Lily is sort of a horrible friend

  • when does Mia get all the time to write all of that?

  • her parents are useless

  • I did like how she stuck up for herself to Lana though

Novel that won a Pulitzer: A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) by Jennifer Egan

  • Now I feel like making a list of the pulitzer books that I've read, or at least have


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  • Current Mood: my elbow hurts
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Reading Challenge: Dog-moth angel

Mar. 4th, 2015 05:20 pm
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Shorts by Vladimir Nabokov

  • I now realize that the angel was probably furry because Nabokov was really into moths and butterflies. This is a good article.

  • Here's a funny one about "Russian Spoken Here"

  • "Revenge" was trippy


Books set in a different country: The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini

  • I am going to change this to "book set in a non-western country". It will also exclude books set in Japan and India, because I can find them easily. I'll try to keep them set in countries that I have never read about. This one is mostly set in Afghanistan, some in Pakistan and the US. Was really good.

  • "How seemless seemed love and then came trouble"


Party Princess (2006) by Meg Cabot (not finished)

  • I guess I read the first book and liked it enough to buy three other from the series. I kind of wish I hadn't. So I'm reading them so I can donate them.

  • Mike and Mia dating is kind of creepy. I hope she doesn't stay with him for the whole series.

  • At least she's not complaining about her flat chest anymore.

  • What's up with her hatred for scented candles though?

  • Current Mood: hungry
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Reading Challenge: Love means never having to say you're sorry (not really though)

Feb. 15th, 2015 05:26 pm
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Trilogy (first part): Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

  • loved it

  • though, maybe it's not such a good idea to portray Crake as autistic (Atwood said he has Aspergers). Then again, it was written in 2003 when there weren't so many genius autistic white dudes in books/movies/tv.

  • I really hope those Crakers mating rituals are left in, it would be hilarious.


Book set in highschool: Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot

  • It's irritating how much Mia complains about her body. I didn't even write that kind of shit when I was 15 and I was suicidal.


Classic Romance: Love Story by Erich Segal

  • I saw the movie years and years ago. I don't remember much, but I certainly don't think it was funny. The book is funny.

  • Only poc character was a guy offering Oliver drugs :|

  • I thought the part with Jennys doctor was really messed up, but that's how they did it back then :|

  • Oliver was based sort of on Al Gore, but mostly on Tommy Lee Jones (who was in the movie).

  • Current Mood: okay
  • Current Music: Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey on the Moon
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