I'm reading the lord of the Flies, by William golding, for school, have started the fate of ten(last of i am number four series), by pittacus lore,i am rereading the sea of tranquility, by katja millay and have just finished le crie de la mouette, by Emmanuelle laborit. :)
Laughter is something serious with which one musn't joke.
I'm re-reading Wuthering Heights for uni(which is one of my favourites, up there with the Harry Potter series, A Fine and Private Place, and I Am Not Myself These Days; oopsie I just listed all of my favourites), and I'm also reading Heart of Darkness. I'm finding it rather difficult(H.O.D.), mostly because of some of the upsetting scenes, and the endless descriptions.
I'm re-reading Wuthering Heights for uni(which is one of my favourites, up there with the Harry Potter series, A Fine and Private Place, and I Am Not Myself These Days; oopsie I just listed all of my favourites), and I'm also reading Heart of Darkness. I'm finding it rather difficult(H.O.D.), mostly because of some of the upsetting scenes, and the endless descriptions.
I tried reading Wuthering Heights years ago and just could not get into it, got about halfway though, maybe I should give it another try.
I read Heart Of Darkness the other month and I found it hard to get into as well, I didn't like it much overall and it turns out I'm studying it later this year, I'm trying to be positive and thinking maybe looking deeper into it will give me a new appreciation for it.
Oh god I want to hear you say,
I want to hear you say that you were wrong again
This is the first thing
I have understood:
Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood.
I tried reading Wuthering Heights years ago and just could not get into it, got about halfway though, maybe I should give it another try.
I read Heart Of Darkness the other month and I found it hard to get into as well, I didn't like it much overall and it turns out I'm studying it later this year, I'm trying to be positive and thinking maybe looking deeper into it will give me a new appreciation for it.
Hey :)
I adore Wuthering Heights, the characters are well defined, and the narrative voice can be very witty and ironic and I found it easy to read. It's also interesting from a psychological perspective, etc. And Heathcliff's character us fantastic for so many reasons I cannot even...Maybe you could try to read it again, see if you could get into it at all this time around.
As for Heart Of Darkness, we're going to be studying it for the next couple of weeks and I am still on page ~20. Scenes of slavery really upset me, and my concentration is poor. There's a lot of criticism about it revolving around racism, and one of my lecturers told me an interesting thing, that there's this theory it might have actually been an attempt to expose the racist views of *white* people in the *European* colonialist era. And to be honest, even if it's just a blatantly racist text, which clashes with everything I have ever believed in, the only way I can comment on that/properly analyse it is after I've read it.
I've been struggling recently, and have found it hard to read which breaks my heart. So am re reading the Harry Potter books from the beginning.
"I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don’t want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic."
I'm reading Blackfoot Messiah by William Johnstone. My boyfriend recommended it. It's a western which is new for me but it's also historical fiction which has been a big interest of mine lately.
I'm reading A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman. It's brilliant and an easy read which is good because I'm struggling to concentrate.
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: 'This glass is half full'. And then there are those who say: 'This glass is half empty'.
The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: 'What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!
I finished reading Lanark by Alisdair Grey and now I'm making another attempt at reading children of dune by Frank Herbert which is the third book in his dune series.
'Dark Places' - Gillian Flynn. It's good, but not can't-put-it-down-good. It's taking me forever to get through it!
"I know you're sad, so I won't tell you to have a good day. Instead, I advise you to simply have a day.
Stay alive, feed yourself well, wear comfortable clothes, and don't give up on yourself just yet.
It'll get better. Until then, have a day."
