So my type A personality has been rearing its ugly head lately. I have been having heart palpitations, not sleeping very well, and my mind has been racing over things that shouldn't merit a second of my time, let alone a day or a week. It makes me angry. I want to be the kind of person that gets pissed, takes a run, drinks a cocktail then sleeps like a baby. But instead I have a tendency to let things bother me, I mean really bother me. Like gasping for air in the middle of the night and jumping six feet when someone knocks on the door. It is outrageous. I know I am nuts, but that doesn't make anything less uncomfortable.
So I am not reading a lot. I am nearing the end of Sight Hound by Pam Houston, but her main character "Rae" is so much like me that it is creepy. My boyfriend even looked to see where she was from (not NC or PA) just to make sure she hadn't stole my personality. The rest of the book is kind of weird and focuses on all her relationships with her quasi-gay boyfriends and gay colleagues, again very much like times in my life. She even had a boyfriend named Adam that tried to look like Yanni...me too! She is obsessed with her dogs, has so many mommy and daddy issues you lose count and she walked around with a dead bird in her pocket because the feathers were pretty. (yes, okay, shut it, it was a long time ago.)
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
44- The Murder Stone-Charles Todd
Oh my god i am not even half way frikkin done with this frikkin reading thing, JESUS! Those are my only feelings right now. Next year I will see how slowly I can read 1 book.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Crazy Old Lady
I was just on the phone with my mother, she was in the middle of making a mashed potato sandwich and watching Becker...ahhh to be 70.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
43. Flu
Flu:The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused it by Gina Kolata (get a load of this chick's name....if you like Gina Kolata...)
This book started off very interesting, or maybe it was just fascinating to me because I have an obsession with pandemics and pestilance in general. I always have been interested in these mysterious mass murderers, even as a child I carried around books about the plague. So I loved the telling about the droves of sick folk lining the streets of Boston. However, somewhere in the middle this book got muy muy BORING! It redeemed itself a little at the end, but it was all down hill, and guess what? No cause, no place of origin, it is coming for you one day, beware.
I am very far behind unless I can read 8 books in the next 2 weeks.
This book started off very interesting, or maybe it was just fascinating to me because I have an obsession with pandemics and pestilance in general. I always have been interested in these mysterious mass murderers, even as a child I carried around books about the plague. So I loved the telling about the droves of sick folk lining the streets of Boston. However, somewhere in the middle this book got muy muy BORING! It redeemed itself a little at the end, but it was all down hill, and guess what? No cause, no place of origin, it is coming for you one day, beware.
I am very far behind unless I can read 8 books in the next 2 weeks.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
42-Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
This book was wonderful. The story was sweet and tragic in places, but all the characters were endearing. The prose was so beautiful that I ended up reading it really slow and savoring it, but I got sucked in last night and stayed up way too late reading.
It stinks that I am behind in the project because when I read books like this, I like to let it settle in my head a little without distraction. But time is ticking on so I must keep reading.
I am a little over half way in a book about the Flue of 1918, and I am starting Dreams from my Father by Barak Obama and Spring Snow by Mishima. I think I am supposed to read 8 or nine more books this month, HA! That is a funny joke.
It stinks that I am behind in the project because when I read books like this, I like to let it settle in my head a little without distraction. But time is ticking on so I must keep reading.
I am a little over half way in a book about the Flue of 1918, and I am starting Dreams from my Father by Barak Obama and Spring Snow by Mishima. I think I am supposed to read 8 or nine more books this month, HA! That is a funny joke.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Caveman Porn
I went into Valley of the Horses by Auel with excitement after enjoying Clan of the Cave Bear so much, but, alas, I am not wading through 500+ pages when I am rolling my eyes on page 75. In Clan there were few sex scenes and they were nondescript and quick, these are just too much for me. They are silly. If I wanted porn, I would read porn. I know a few of my friends swear by these books, sorry, they just aren't my cup of tea.
The lines that did it: (keep in mind that this is page 3 of the same sex scene)
When he heard her gasping in quick pants, he raised up, still kneeling so he could control his penetration, and guided the head of his engorged organ into her untried opening. He gritted his teeth for control as he pushed into the warm, damp, tight well.
There is absolutely a place in the world for a dirty story, but this project is not that place.
The lines that did it: (keep in mind that this is page 3 of the same sex scene)
When he heard her gasping in quick pants, he raised up, still kneeling so he could control his penetration, and guided the head of his engorged organ into her untried opening. He gritted his teeth for control as he pushed into the warm, damp, tight well.
There is absolutely a place in the world for a dirty story, but this project is not that place.
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