Feel free to feed my turtles

Ok, first things first: three reviews for today because "why not" and 'i feel like it'


[X] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
A very interesting book. i rather liked it and i would say that i found it rather enjoyable. it had some very interesting twists and i really enjoyed the psychology of the whole book, with the main character being autistic and all. i would definitely recommend it to anyone (over the age of 12...)

[X] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
one of my personal favorites. such a tragic and well writ story. i could bore you to death with all the symbolism and the references to religion and fate and the meaning of existence... but i wont. but still, you should read it. :D maybe i'll post a detailed book review just for The Great Gatsby...

[X] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
another one of my personal favorites, even though i hate two of the main characters at several times throughout the story... but that's what makes it a great book, right? it's dynamic. anyways, i love this book because its a tail of success through perseverance and will power. also, it's set in England, which is always a plus.




And, second things second: turtles!

i have two turtles on my blog page now, just because. for grins and giggles. i have named them Benny and Joon. the darker one is Benny and the lighter one is Joon. feel free to feed them or whatever if you want to, if your fancy tends toward the crazy. :)
and for the record: yes, i do know that they are not real... but they are cute, and they try to run away from you when you put the cursor over their backs... but i do know that they aren't real.... so...



anyways,
--as always

such weird dreams...

i have some weird dreams...

last night i had a dream where i was crushing soda cans with my hands and then the cans were re-inflating themselves... like balloons, or jumping houses (which, now that i think about it, are really just very large balloons)... i even tried stepping on them and they just felt like those little squishy things that you squeeze to relieve stress... D:


... i wonder what Freud would say about that dream...







--as always

books, books, books...

[ ] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
[ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
[ ] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
[ ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
[ ] A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
[ ] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
[ ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
[ ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[ ] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
[ ] Animal Farm - George Orwell
[ ] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
[ ] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
[ ] Atonement - Ian McEwan
[ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
[ ] Bleak House - Charles Dickens
[ ] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
[ ] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
[ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
[ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
[ ] Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
[ ] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
[ ] Charlotte’s Web - EB White
[ ] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
[ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
[ ] Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
[ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare
[ ] Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
[ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[ ] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
[ ] Dracula - Bram Stoker
[ ] Dune - Frank Herbert
[ ] Emma - Jane Austen
[ ] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
[ ] Germinal - Emile Zola
[ ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
[ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
[ ] Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
[ ] Hamlet - William Shakespeare
[ ] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
[ ] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
[ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
[ ] Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
[ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
[ ] Life of Pi - Yann Martel
[ ] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
[ ] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
[ ] Lord of the Flies - William Golding
[ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[ ] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
[ ] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
[ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot
[ ] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
[ ] Moby Dick - Herman Melville
[ ] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
[ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
[ ] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
[ ] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
[ ] On The Road - Jack Kerouac
[ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[ ] Persuasion - Jane Austen
[ ] Possession - AS Byatt
[ ] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
[ ] Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
[ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
[ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
[ ] The Bible
[ ] The Color Purple - Alice Walker
[ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
[ ] The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
[ ] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
[ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
[ ] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
[X] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
[ ] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
[ ] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
[ ] The Inferno – Dante
[ ] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
[ ] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
[ ] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
[ ] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
[ ] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
[ ] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
[ ] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
[ ] The Secret History - Donna Tartt
[ ] The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
[ ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
[ ] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
[ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
[ ] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
[ ] The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
[ ] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
[ ] Ulysses - James Joyce
[ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
[ ] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
[ ] Watership Down - Richard Adams
[ ] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
[ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte


Three reviews for today:

[X] Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Overall not a horrible book. it had so many complex elements running through it and it touched on so many issues of that time period and some from any time period. i totally think that it should be a book for seniors instead of freshmen, but that's just me... i really liked this book, even though it had it's dull moments and its really dark moments. it had several great sociological commentaries that i really appreciated and it kept the suspense and feeling of the unknown until the very end. overall, i would say that it was very well writ and i would probably read it again.


[X] Life of Pi - Yann Martel
ummm.... yeah. this book. i personally hated this book. i thought it was pointless and confusing. i mean, what was the deal with the tiger? basically i view this book as the boring account of a boy and his adventures with religion and acid. end of story.


[X] Hamlet - William Shakespeare
A great classic. despite the well know saying about the monkeys, i truly believe that Hamlet was a brilliant play by Shakespeare. deceit, intrigue, so many complex personalities... Rosencrantz and Guildenstern... when looking at this play i think that there are several things that need to be taken into consideration; such as the loss of Hamnet, Shakespeare's son, the plague, the changing views of society. anyways, i think that the loss of Hamnet is probably the most important considering that he was Shakespeare's only son. when you look at the play and then you look at that event in Shakespeare's life, it's not too hard to see that there is a connection in the feeling of turmoil. just saying. anyways, great play



--as always

in advance

i have anger issues. its so hard to control sometimes... so very hard...

i have contemplated going and purchasing breakables, and a bat... something like teacups, or glass vases, maybe from the goodwill so that they are not expensive and a baseball bat to hit them with. i'd have to clean up all the glass though... hmm. i still think it would be worth it.



time passes so swiftly. sometimes i hardly feel that any time has passed at all, and other times it feels as if time passes by incredibly slow. it's hard to believe that that much time has passed, and yet, it hasn't.... a short period. four months. that's all i get for now. just four months.

.....

so. right. i apologise in advance, for any rude, snide, sarcastic or cynical comments that are hurtful. i don't really mean it, usually... i don't really mean it. i apologise in advance for being short tempered and snappish, or for being quiet and uninvolved. also, i apologise if i seem uninterested or if i seem like i am just trying to get to the next thing on my list.
i'm sorry.


welcome the darkness.


--as always

And it feels like it should today

Welcome, month of May. i wonder what you have in store for me...
April wasn't all that great....

i'm liking the warmer weather, it's nice. it means that i can actually wear most of my wardrobe, which makes me happy. :D <---- see, happy.

anyways,
a song for May:

"Rain On" by Woods

"Wasting time, Annie
Knew you could
Breaking ties, while they
Thought he should

Out of line, but the damage is done
Doing fine, under a setting sun

And it feels like it should today
Falling back on a better place
You wouldn't hide awhile
If you knew it for two more days

I won't shovel through
All the shame that led me too
You wouldn't pass it off

I wouldn't hide the face
Take it back from anywhere
Oh, just to take it off
Falling back, but he's not there

How the days will rain on you
Oh, how the days will rain on you

And it feels like it should today
Falling back on a better place
You wouldn't hide awhile
If you knew it for two more days

I won't shovel through
All the shame that led me too
You wouldn't pass it of

How the days will rain on you
Oh, how the days will rain on you
Oh, how the days will rain on you
Oh, how the days will rain on you"



my sunglasses broke today. i need to go find new ones... i think i'll go in the morning, before class. and maybe after class too, if i don't find any in the morning.


What a week on the run this will be...

--as always