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rationalchaos

well this turned into a long post about what i do to put off doing actual work and not feel guilty

May 08, 2009 15:13

It is a Friday, the house is quiet and unnaturally clean. This morning the rain that had been threatening to fall all of yesterday did so in one tremendous vertical swoosh, soaking the grass and leaving the clouds a washed-out white.

I am reading Chocolat, which, all the various and glorious merits of Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche aside, is so ( Read more... )

books i read, procrastination

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a mini-essay, haha onzedouzetreize May 15 2009, 01:05:35 UTC

good reading. lirael is the only one i've read there - it's a strange book. instead of being immediately engrossing and enchanting, like a fantasy book usually is, i found that trilogy disturbing and actually difficult to read, just because it was so weird. (i've tried other Nix books, though, and they're all like that, haha.) have you seen pan's labyrinth? that's what i compare it to. the weirdness grows on you.

lirael frustrated me though because it left me longing for the final book! which is mind-blowing, by the way.

didn't like nick & norah, though. the movie. michael cera bugs me, i think. but i love david levithan so maybe i'll pick up the book!

Re: a mini-essay, haha rationalchaos May 17 2009, 19:58:37 UTC

I have indeed seen pan's labyrinth and it freaked me out so much! I couldn't watch some of it, it was so much more shudder-inducing because of the goriness and the gut-rending monsters mixed in with the whole childhood theme. Very creepy, but it made an impression. I haven't dared watch it again, but maybe I should!

I also wonder where Nix gets his ideas. Like, a sort of Necromancer-In-Chief in a fantasy land of steampunk on the one side of the Wall and magical zombies on the other? Bizarre! I found the first one, Sabriel, quite slow going, but I love the pace of the last one - I'm in the middle of re-reading it now.

I like David Levithan's books - they are kind of whimsical and poetic, which is nice but means that you only get a thin slice of a book where sometimes I want a great big wedge. Hm. And now I am thinking of cake again...