Rocko is having a bad day
May. 19th, 2009 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magicalmarthaWatching Boondock Saints. I'm not always sure that I know what's going on in this movie, but I'm pretty sure it's always awesome.
I have two DreamWidth codes of my very own now. I am considering keeping one for my own to use as a writing journal, but then I realized that in light of paying for this shiny account I can just keep everything here. So does anyone know someone who needs a code?
I have a long list of things to do before Saturday, so I'm dividing up duties by day. Tomorrow, I am going to the bank, canceling my gym membership, and packing up my bookshelf. Maybe my clothes? I don't know. I hate packing, as I have previously mentioned.
I'm pleased that I've started to get back into reading for pleasure; my blog suffered a bit last month because I honestly had nothing to put there. For new people, I run a blog called Alternative Read wherein my goal is to review books that don't get a lot of exposure. So far, what it really means is that I review stuff I think people should read and which I haven't heard many people/websites/newspapers/whatever talking about. Sometimes I deviate, like when I did a comparison entry of Coraline the film and Coraline the movie, but hey, it's my blog.
Point being, I've done so much reading for school (see: work) that it's incredibly refreshing to be able to venture back into reading what I want to. This afternoon I read the first thing of my choice that wasn't a comic (which I'm not maligning, as I love them, but the graphics do make them easier to process in my brain) or a young adult/children's book (I've re-read all of Garth Nix and Tamora Pierce's books because they take about two hours to finish), and it felt really good. It was a collection of short fiction from John Connolly called Nocturnes, and I won't be reviewing it in depth on the blog since I'm pretty sure it was a New York Times best seller, but trust me: I know who's looking at this journal, and YOU ALL want to read this book. They're horror, gritty fantasy, eerie, macabre stories that made me nervous just to look at the titles. Some are not as good as others, but they're all fascinating, and some are riveting.
/self-promotion
I have two DreamWidth codes of my very own now. I am considering keeping one for my own to use as a writing journal, but then I realized that in light of paying for this shiny account I can just keep everything here. So does anyone know someone who needs a code?
I have a long list of things to do before Saturday, so I'm dividing up duties by day. Tomorrow, I am going to the bank, canceling my gym membership, and packing up my bookshelf. Maybe my clothes? I don't know. I hate packing, as I have previously mentioned.
I'm pleased that I've started to get back into reading for pleasure; my blog suffered a bit last month because I honestly had nothing to put there. For new people, I run a blog called Alternative Read wherein my goal is to review books that don't get a lot of exposure. So far, what it really means is that I review stuff I think people should read and which I haven't heard many people/websites/newspapers/whatever talking about. Sometimes I deviate, like when I did a comparison entry of Coraline the film and Coraline the movie, but hey, it's my blog.
Point being, I've done so much reading for school (see: work) that it's incredibly refreshing to be able to venture back into reading what I want to. This afternoon I read the first thing of my choice that wasn't a comic (which I'm not maligning, as I love them, but the graphics do make them easier to process in my brain) or a young adult/children's book (I've re-read all of Garth Nix and Tamora Pierce's books because they take about two hours to finish), and it felt really good. It was a collection of short fiction from John Connolly called Nocturnes, and I won't be reviewing it in depth on the blog since I'm pretty sure it was a New York Times best seller, but trust me: I know who's looking at this journal, and YOU ALL want to read this book. They're horror, gritty fantasy, eerie, macabre stories that made me nervous just to look at the titles. Some are not as good as others, but they're all fascinating, and some are riveting.
/self-promotion
