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What are you reading? What book did you just finish?
submitted by Gollum, Mooseflower
(December 26, 2012 - 8:24 pm)
(December 26, 2012 - 8:24 pm)
I second the Rainbow Rowell thing.
(January 22, 2014 - 1:10 pm)
Fangirl is amazing. Always. Amazing.
Finished The White Darkness. Would recommend it to people who like YA but want a tiny bit of a change from the usual fare.
(January 22, 2014 - 7:20 pm)
I haven't read Fangirl yet. I'm supposed to get it when my mom finally returns my second copy of Crown of Midnight. I loved Eleanor & Park, though.
I finished Crown of Midnight and I'm now reading Also Known as by Robin Benway. I like the voice.
(January 23, 2014 - 1:51 pm)
Here's a list of books I've finished and recommend:
The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns
The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
11 Doctors 11 Stories
Dewey the Library Cat
A Year Without Autumn
The Familiars series
...I'll post more later but for now I got to go to school.
(January 23, 2014 - 6:56 am)
I started reading The Beginning of Everything. It's really good.
(January 23, 2014 - 12:54 pm)
When you're done with it, I need to rant to you about Cassidy.
(January 23, 2014 - 9:35 pm)
I'm reading the Unfinneshed tales of Numenor and Middle Earth. The History of Galadriel and Celeborn was really intresting. I had SO MANY fangirl moments. for examople: OMIGOSH REALLY?? srsly?? WOW THAT IS SO COOL!!!! etc, etc.
(January 23, 2014 - 1:38 pm)
Started The Burning Bridge, the second in the Ranger's Apprentice series.
(January 23, 2014 - 8:33 pm)
I finished Also Known As. I am now reading Night School by C.J. Daugherty. It's pretty good so far.
(January 24, 2014 - 6:05 pm)
I haven't had much time lately so still reading The Agony and the Ecstasy. I finished The Visit for class. It was even better than The Physicists.
(January 25, 2014 - 3:28 am)
Also started Romeo and Juliet (yes, THE Romeo and Juliet) for Shakespeare class. Proceeded to rant about how Giselle is a better tragic love story than Romeo and Juliet.
(January 25, 2014 - 4:28 pm)
Romeo and Juliet is sooo overrated. All freshman at my high school are required to read it. I could honestly rant for an hour about how awful it is. I love Shakespeare, but if you want GOOD Shakespeare, go read Macbeth or Twelfth Night.
(January 25, 2014 - 7:23 pm)
WARNING: This post assumes that Romeo and Juliet is perpetually spoiled for all eternity.
I have a friend who really wants to play Juliet in our Shakespeare group. I don't think she'd like it that much, now that I'm reading it. Juliet is mostly in the play so Romeo can have a love interest. Also, the play as a concept would be SO much more interesting if Juliet didn't kill herself two seconds after Romeo died, because then there could be a whole aspect about guilt which would make another entire play. There isn't as much meaning in it as you would think from popular culture...
I've come up with so many reasons why Giselle is OBVIOUSLY superior, but is not as known in popular culture (mostly stemming from the fact that a ballet requires more interpretation to understand than a play). I really want to write a modernization of Giselle, because it would be SO AWESOME and is surprisingly easy to translate into modern terms. (The Wilis as a clique of high school girls and the whole dancing to dawn bit as a prom.)
Also, I didn't realize this when I wrote the first paragraph (I was going on my mom's summary of Giselle, which is inaccurate), but the prince lives after Giselle's death, because he is spared from love. Exactly my point with Romeo and Juliet!
Was that a rant? That was a rant. Sufficient ranting completed.
(January 26, 2014 - 11:21 am)
Omigosh I love Giselle. My mother was a dancer, so I know all the famous ballets & that's one of my favorites, along with Coppelia and Firebird (that's what it's called, right?).
(January 29, 2014 - 1:45 pm)
Giselle is my favourite ballet. And I will say, I do like Swan Lake a lot, but Giselle is so much better than any others that I like.
(January 29, 2014 - 3:23 pm)