10 December 2009

novels galore

It's 1:30 in the morning on a Wednesday night and I have much to do at school tomorrow. Maybe I'm up because I took an accidental 2 hour nap, or maybe it's because I am greatly skilled at procrastination.
Lately I've been reading many non-school related books instead of watching late night shows with Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel. As of now I'm rereading Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, and I just finished Twilight. I was one of those people who didn't care about Twilight; I wasn't a fanatic for or against it, I was neutral. But now I am in love with it and I can't stop relating it to my daily life. I never thought to read it until I discovered that one of my guy friends was in love with it. I thought, well, since this guy is reading it, it should be good. So I took the dust covered book from the top section of my bookshelf and read it within a week. 400+ pages is a long read for someone who almost never reads to begin with, but I read it with ease. It was exhilarating and emotional at the same time; I was experiencing what the main characters were feeling. It was pretty amazing; I'm not gonna lie.

As of now, the list of books I am reading all at once:
No Ordinary Time
There Are No Children Here
New Moon
Of Mice and Men
Paper Towns (I kept hearing about it from British youtube personalities; I wonder if it's any good?)
reread; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
reread; Animal Farm
reread; Me Talk Pretty One Day
reread; Funny in Farsi

So yes. The first two are for school, the rest I just want to read on my own with ease. I have to reread a lot of books, mainly because I completely forgot what they were about and I want to revamp my memory. I'm super stoked for it though.
I occasionally read myself to sleep.
I guess it's kind of comforting.

-A

1 comments:

James and Jacks said...

Hey!
I heard stuff about the novel Paper Towns too and so I checked it out of the library and started reading it but for some reason I couldn't really get into it. And then I renewed it at the library to give myself more time but I think I only got like 70 pages in.
When you finish let me know if it's worth finishing!