Ahh... This book talk makes me happy because I used to do that a lot then sort of stopped because of no moolah. But I know how you feel about Twilight. I only read a little of the Baby Sitter's Club when I was younger just to see what the hype was about. I didn't enjoy it that much; it bored me. So, I stuck with the classics.
I'm definitely abusing the fact that my parents pay my rent and give me a food allowance so I can spend the money I make for work on things like books. But I have sworn not to use the debit card anymore or return to Barnes and Noble until November, so hopefully I will not splurge like this for awhile unless I get so wrapped up in Discworld that nothing else will satisfy me and I have to go get more.
But hey, Bella Swan is kind of funny. Particularly when you compare her thoughts to Edward's thoughts in Midnight Sun. I haven't laughed so hard in awhile.
Hopefully, that will be the case. When one works and then the money comes in, it's like, "Where did all this money come from?" But I do hope so as well since... wow.
I clearly need to read this comparison. Is it incoherent?
My greatest weakness is books, alas. It's one of the things I spent most of my money on when I was in university (it didn't help that right across the street from us was a book store, and there were constant book sales occurring on campus).
But yes, I did read the Babysitter's Club when I was younger. They were entertaining enough in their own way, and. Well. In a way, the characters reminded me slightly of my own friends, as I attended an all girls' school. I was basically pinged by the fact that there were books on a large group of all female friends, too. XD
As soon as I got into Tamora Pierce's works though, I quickly fell in love and never looked back at the Babysitter's Club books.
Yeah, it probably doesn't help that I also work in a store that sells textbooks, and some classes have some really cool textbooks (aka novels) that I drool over when I restock shelves.
Oh, well, that makes sense! It did seem to be one of those series catered specifically to girls, and for some reason I disdained everything like that when I was little.
I've only read a few of her books! About uh...Alys? Trickster's Choice, I think, and the books that followed in that trilogy or whatever. They were pretty good, though I read them a ways back and don't really remember them too clearly.
I'm not too fond of the Trickster series, to be honest, and I haven't read any of her latest works, but I love her Lioness quartet, The Protector of the Small series, and the Circle of Magic series and its continuations. (I went and bought a hard copy version of her The Will of the Empress, even.) She's one of my favorite authors.
I posted in mine this week, I'm still covered! Also I did at least one college entrance essay on Alice in Wonderland, so. Rock on, my IB compatriot. I did my english paper on Madame Bovary, iirc. "We should never touch our idols, for the gilt comes off in our hands."
... ... ...No there's nothing better I could use my brainspace for. Also, I read Babysitter's Club when I was little. I think it annoyed me at the time. Also I should go to bed. <3
Wait, would that be the fanfic I still need to go read? Also your english paper sounds much better than me, though this was my EE (I got a B on it, let me go kick something, though to be honest I did not work very hard on it because when do I ever work hard on English papers? NEVER). I remember trying to start Madame Bovary when I was 11 and my mother taking it away from me, and I've never gone back to read it since XD Though I did want to do my paper on "Love in the Time of Cholera," I just couldn't find an appropriate book in English to compare it to.
...since I'm not sure how much tequila you had, you probably should have gone, even though it's hours later now. Also because you tagged this an hour after I went to bed, so. WHY WERE YOU STILL AWAKE?
Haha, all my english papers were always pretty lousy because I was so lazy. My EE was also a B. X3 Internet hifives! And yes, that fanfic. Begun in the summer because I fail hard and liked the prompts I gave grammaticide so much that I decided to write them myself. And because alcohol + quantum physics = obvious Reborn fanfic. :D
Re: how much tequila, see here. (Engineers believe in precise answers okay?) AND I AM ALWAYS AWAKE IDEK sob it's so sad.
It's been awhile. <3 Glad to see you're doing (reasonably) well.
Microeconomics was a boring class for me too. It was much more painful than the hardcore engineering classes I've taken. (Babysitter's Club when I was younger. I liked them at the time; the girls were from diverse backgrounds and seemed "normal" to me. Chapters are written from the POV of different characters so each one of them had a voice. I guess that was the wide appeal of the series - the fact that a reader could relate to at least one of the girls. *shrugs*
I've never read Twilight and I'm in no hurry to kill my brain cells over hundreds of pages of what others term "crap."
Oh, but it's such hysterically amusing crap. Without literary merit. I find it somewhat encouraging, actually, that she could get published, though I know that it's all about what will sell.
That makes sense, about the Babysitter's Club. I never really had a ton of female friends and had no desire to be normal (normal girls didn't think about interesting things- I was such a Tomboy) but I'm sure if I went back and read them now I could probably derive some enjoyment out of them. Or at least appreciate that technique.
Microeconomics is bizarrely straightforward compared to Gen. Anthropology and International Relations, and yet I find myself wanting to stab the textbook repeatedly.
Listen, bitch, just because you don't have a badass copy of Sherlock Holmes is no reason to come curbstomping. I HAVE AS MUCH RIGHT TO THE INTERNET AS YOU ♥
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I will forever love Alice more than Bella Swan.
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But hey, Bella Swan is kind of funny. Particularly when you compare her thoughts to Edward's thoughts in Midnight Sun. I haven't laughed so hard in awhile.
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I clearly need to read this comparison. Is it incoherent?
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I gave it to you the other day, didn't I? It was the post by cleolinda.
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But yes, I did read the Babysitter's Club when I was younger. They were entertaining enough in their own way, and. Well. In a way, the characters reminded me slightly of my own friends, as I attended an all girls' school. I was basically pinged by the fact that there were books on a large group of all female friends, too. XD
As soon as I got into Tamora Pierce's works though, I quickly fell in love and never looked back at the Babysitter's Club books.
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Oh, well, that makes sense! It did seem to be one of those series catered specifically to girls, and for some reason I disdained everything like that when I was little.
I've only read a few of her books! About uh...Alys? Trickster's Choice, I think, and the books that followed in that trilogy or whatever. They were pretty good, though I read them a ways back and don't really remember them too clearly.
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... ... ...No there's nothing better I could use my brainspace for. Also, I read Babysitter's Club when I was little. I think it annoyed me at the time. Also I should go to bed. <3
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...since I'm not sure how much tequila you had, you probably should have gone, even though it's hours later now. Also because you tagged this an hour after I went to bed, so. WHY WERE YOU STILL AWAKE?
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Re: how much tequila, see here. (Engineers believe in precise answers okay?) AND I AM ALWAYS AWAKE IDEK sob it's so sad.
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Microeconomics was a boring class for me too. It was much more painful than the hardcore engineering classes I've taken. (Babysitter's Club when I was younger. I liked them at the time; the girls were from diverse backgrounds and seemed "normal" to me. Chapters are written from the POV of different characters so each one of them had a voice. I guess that was the wide appeal of the series - the fact that a reader could relate to at least one of the girls. *shrugs*
I've never read Twilight and I'm in no hurry to kill my brain cells over hundreds of pages of what others term "crap."
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That makes sense, about the Babysitter's Club. I never really had a ton of female friends and had no desire to be normal (normal girls didn't think about interesting things- I was such a Tomboy) but I'm sure if I went back and read them now I could probably derive some enjoyment out of them. Or at least appreciate that technique.
Microeconomics is bizarrely straightforward compared to Gen. Anthropology and International Relations, and yet I find myself wanting to stab the textbook repeatedly.
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