Eclipse (Twilight Saga) by Stephenie Meyer
February 27th, 2010
Another eclectic month, I never realise how I flit from tune to tune until I come to write these blogs. I began a Glee-aholic, found a few tunes in between and am now obsessing over Yeasayer’s new album (which you should all get!)
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February 20th, 2010
I don’t enjoy romance, the soppy kind, the ‘I’ll love you forever and ever, my life is yours’ kind. Perhaps I just lack the proper emotions, but those romance novels just don’t do it for me. I enjoy unconventional romance, romance that is as real as possible and realistic to life’s up’s and downs, romance that makes your heart break over an everyday sort of love. ‘One Day’ by David Nicholls is the most wonderful love story I have read (besides Persuasion), there are no words strong or emotive enough for me to describe how much I now love this book. I was dubious as I began the first chapter, I didn’t enjoy how it began but as I read on through one day of each year of their lives (1988-2008) I began to love them and in the two days it took to read One Day Emma and Dexter became part of my life. I ended the novel devastated, but understanding, David Nicholls is truly a fantastic author.
February 15th, 2010
Because sometimes it is better to laugh than to cry:
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
–Mark Twain
While what I do daily can in no way be described as particularly stressful or demanding, it does occasionally get me down. It gets to a point where idiots stop being funny and are just idiots. I was stumbling along, as you do, and came across this quote by Mark Twain. It is possibly the funniest thing I have encountered in a significant period of time.
February 14th, 2010
I purchased Labyrinth by Kate Mosse a few years ago due to the protagonist’s name being Alice, and promptly forgot I owned it. Pulling it off the shelf a few weeks back I thought I would give it a go as I do enjoy novels that involve a period in the past and the present. I would love to say that this novel gripped me throughout, but I must admit by about 30 pages in my main reason for trudging through it was the thought of the next book I could read. Labyrinth is an interesting and well-researched story but it just did not pull me in, it lacked that grip-factor that stops you sleeping you so desire to know the conclusion. Any historical fiction loving reader should give it a go, but at 600+ pages long anyone who is not may not wish to bother.