Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Oh Lawd

Tumblr's 30 Day Challenge. I knew the next one would be a book one.

Your Favourite Book.

Crap. Okay. List. With sidenotes of why, because I'm just awesome like that.

- Tender Morsels by Margot Lanagan (a soft, yet underlyingly evil story).

- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (weird, ("horrorshow") with a despicable main character who you can't help but root for).

- The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (sad and beautiful, and original).


- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (I haven't read it in a while but I remember the main character, Charlie, as being this innocent little guy, and I remember this one quote, "and in that moment, I swear we were infinite").

- The Stand by Stephen King (a story of EPIC proportions and INCREDIBLE length, written by a master storyteller who weaves the storyline around his characters intricately).

- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (dystopian setting and characters you empathize with).

- Tandia by Bryce Courtenay (there's an icky rapey scene or two, but it was the sequel to The Power of One and I loved it, because it reignighted old characters).

But the best, without a doubt, is
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller. Catch-22, to summarise, is an anti-war novel which took eight years to write. It has a sequel, Closing Time, which I didn't enjoy as much. The book is funny, in a sarcastic sort of way, with all these awesome characters, such as Major Major (rank) Major (first name) Major (last name), and the Chaplain, and Orr, the weird one. And the guy in Yossarian's tent who died, whose possessions they cannot remove because he was never registered and died on his first mission. I loved it from the first line.

Read it.

Anyways. Exams tomorrow. I spent two hours "studying", and I say this because I was working on a subject that I don't have an exam for. I feel like there's nothing I can do from this point. I just have to cross my fingers (and everything else) and hope that everything goes okay.

Night everyone, I'm off soon to read a little, then sleep :) xx

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