dec 13 - GEU chapter middle of fifteenth
Charles Dickens' Great Expectations Update
Now up to chapter 15 (middle of)
i just adore pip. that boy is just too adorable. with a hefty imagination too, like me! i feel for him that he feels so common recently. he has done "playing" with ms. havisham(i wrote mrs initially, and boy wouldn't that lady brandish me with a stick if she ever finds out!) and is undergoing apprenticeship under joe. i like joe. he is the one bright light in pip's life(apart from estella). i think his sister is crazy. craaaaaazy. i wonder what she was like when she was a kid. did she ever smile and laugh? the reading is slow but i enjoy every minute of it, and don't mind lingering at every page on every word trying to absorb everything.
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cat o'nine tales by jeffrey archer.
i'm in the last mile of this. it was a surprise, man. i didn't think i'd like it. i wasn't a fan of archer's. but the more stories i read the more fascinating it became and before i knew it i was hooked. i think i like reading about them criminals because they didn't commit murderous crimes. well, most of them. and then i had to look up "laundering money" because apparently, i... don't really have the slightest idea what it was all about. heeee.
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the invisible man, h.g wells, simplified version.
h.g wells loved to frighten, didn't he?(i feel like this fragment is wrong on so many levels) i haven't read war of the worlds but i saw the tom cruise movie one and it scared the bejeebus out of me. anyway, the invisible man is dark, and scary. i mean at first i thought it was kind of funny, and maybe bland because, invisible man? isn't that kind of hilarious? but this invisible man went sort of mad and made a cat disappear. so that made me kind of sad because invisible cats? what a sad concept! so i was really concerned about that. anyway, invisible man he died in the end, the end.
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dear ps. i love you by cecelia ahem,
i really wanted to like you, despite being obviously a chick-lit(re: title. also i don't think ps. i love you of the love stories was one of my favourites)(i read love stories, yeah shut up). because you didn't look like one(the cover). it looked sensible and acceptable. and the first few pages were promising. but as the pages flew my enthusiasm dimmed little by little. you're a little boring. and holly is not someone i feel like i want to root for. but still i got through to the end, because mostly i just wanted to know if holly would end up with daniel. who again, is not someone i was all "HE'S THE ONE FOR YOUUUUUUUU!" about. y'all are just ... existing. there was no depth, no really feel good moments, or truly sad heart wrenching moments. which would be what one would look for in a really good book. but granted, you didn't feel like the typical chick-lits that i could despise so much. it was just... ok. but maybe on the lower side of ok.
and then i discovered that you has turned into a movie! i was gobsmacked! my first reaction was uh... but you guys... it wasn't really a good book. heeee. but good luck anyway. maybe the movie will be better.(i'm sure holly kennedy would be thrilled to learn that she is played by awards winning actress hilary swank)
ps. i don't love you in that way,
neri.