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bratty_jedi

I'm Alive & 2014 Reading Bingo

Jan 27, 2015 11:10

I got the chapter to my advisor by last Monday like I needed to do. The last few pages I wrote are absolute crap, but I got it done. Tuesday and Wednesday were spent doing everything else for the application for funding for next year. I should hear within 2 or 3 weeks. Here's hoping ( Read more... )

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sunshine304 January 27 2015, 19:52:30 UTC

Great that you managed to be successful with the bingo, no matter how unintentionally! *g*

And go you for sending off that chapter on time. :) I've started to work on my thesis again, finally. So far it's only taking all the notes from the books I've read and it's nice to be able to cross some stuff out already because I now know that I'll not be needing it in my thesis. I want to get a chapter finished this week, although I'm way behind since last weekend was shit and this weekend is also cluttered. 'sigh* But at least I'm doing something.

bratty_jedi January 27 2015, 22:29:53 UTC

I want to get a chapter finished this week, although I'm way behind since last weekend was shit and this weekend is also cluttered. 'sigh* But at least I'm doing something.

Oh, how deeply I know that feeling! I'm always behind where I want to be and always trying to convince myself that doing anything means progress, even if it isn't as much as I'd like. We'll get there eventually!

eanor January 27 2015, 20:38:44 UTC

Wow, you were really successful in your last reading bingo! :-D I'm not very sure I'll be able to fill the whole card, but at least some motivation to pick up a few more books might come out of it. :-) What was your favourite book last year?

bratty_jedi January 27 2015, 22:54:21 UTC

What was your favourite book last year?

Oh, that's a tough one! How about a few favorites?

I reread Good Omens and I love that to pieces, but a seventh / tenth / whatever it actually is reread of a long time favorite doesn't really count.

Of new things that I read (new to me anyway), I probably most loved Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. Calvino is known as a post-modernist writer and this is very much a post-modernist novel. It is framed as Marco Polo and Kublai Khan having conversations about cities Polo has visited. Most of the text is just one to two page descriptions of a city, all presented in a highly structured and organized manner. It is highly imaginative, evocative, and thoughtful and you have to dive into each city and play around with it in your mind. I truly loved reading it!

For more of a light and fun read, A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny is brilliant! It is a bunch of characters like Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf Man, Jack the Ripper, etc. meeting in a town with half of them as Openers trying to ( ... )