I did read Geek Love and I LOVED IT. It was creepy and terrible and amazing. Those are some intense characters. So far you've never recommended any books to me ever that I didn't like! Perfect record! I have not yet read Jonathan Norrel- I only got like twenty pages in and then I kept getting distracted. But it might just be because I didn't get to read it before school got ridiculous. Also my professors keep giving me random shitty side reading to do that doesn't help with anything./It's still next on my list of things to read on purpose though and I'm going to try to read it for real after reviews are over in a few weeks. It definitely seems good, because MAGICIANS just kind of slow at the beginning, so not intense enough to convince me to abandon all my work and lay around my studio reading like geek love did.
yeah, i started and stopped with jonathan norrell too. i read the first few chapters and then put it down for two years (until i had finished school), so i don't blame you. but if you do get past the gentlemen part in the beginning, it grows on you. and i love her footnotes, too.
I did get past it and it did grow on me! Mr. Norrel makes me giggle. I too like the footnotes but I tend to not read them sometimes. I wish that I had not yet read Geek Love so I could read it NOW. We are talking about "the grotesque" a lot in seminar. Oh man.
You should recommend some more books to me all the time as a general rule. I think that you have never suggested a bad one ever. And I still keep forcing other people to read Bee Season.
I hope we can hang out again someday (ha, and you have to so you can get your books back).
Also I'm scared I need to stop reading books because my work is SO MOTHERFUCKING NARRATIVE that it's problematic in my reviews- now they're telling me to take creative writing and write stories and make books to go with my work/ screen print text on the wall. (like I know how to write stories) Holy lord.
maybe you should just write some stories, jenn. i'd read them. you should NOT stop reading books, ever. if anything, being inside stories in other mediums should only make your art-narratives stronger. but then again, i can't imagine life without books all the time...
except right now i'm stuck in the middle of a bunch of books (catch 22, windup bird chronicle, what is the what). none of them are being wonderful. it's frustrating, especially since i know i'll be at wake forest soon and i'll never get to read on my own again after that.
it is so dumb that we're having a conversation via livejournal. someday i should call you.
but whatever. tell josh i said hey (and how is he?), and yes, we SHOULD hang out. tell me when you come home again. alternately, my dad is trying to get me to go to massachusetts this summer, so if you're there maybe i'll be there too.
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I did read Geek Love and I LOVED IT. It was creepy and terrible and amazing. Those are some intense characters.
So far you've never recommended any books to me ever that I didn't like! Perfect record!
I have not yet read Jonathan Norrel- I only got like twenty pages in and then I kept getting distracted. But it might just be because I didn't get to read it before school got ridiculous. Also my professors keep giving me random shitty side reading to do that doesn't help with anything./It's still next on my list of things to read on purpose though and I'm going to try to read it for real after reviews are over in a few weeks. It definitely seems good, because MAGICIANS just kind of slow at the beginning, so not intense enough to convince me to abandon all my work and lay around my studio reading like geek love did.
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i knew you would love geek love. (= yay!
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Mr. Norrel makes me giggle. I too like the footnotes but I tend to not read them sometimes.
I wish that I had not yet read Geek Love so I could read it NOW. We are talking about "the grotesque" a lot in seminar. Oh man.
You should recommend some more books to me all the time as a general rule. I think that you have never suggested a bad one ever.
And I still keep forcing other people to read Bee Season.
I hope we can hang out again someday (ha, and you have to so you can get your books back).
Also I'm scared I need to stop reading books because my work is SO MOTHERFUCKING NARRATIVE that it's problematic in my reviews- now they're telling me to take creative writing and write stories and make books to go with my work/ screen print text on the wall. (like I know how to write stories)
Holy lord.
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except right now i'm stuck in the middle of a bunch of books (catch 22, windup bird chronicle, what is the what). none of them are being wonderful. it's frustrating, especially since i know i'll be at wake forest soon and i'll never get to read on my own again after that.
it is so dumb that we're having a conversation via livejournal. someday i should call you.
but whatever. tell josh i said hey (and how is he?), and yes, we SHOULD hang out. tell me when you come home again. alternately, my dad is trying to get me to go to massachusetts this summer, so if you're there maybe i'll be there too.
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