Random Updates.

Well, yesterday...was pretty basic. Wandered around the grocery store and came home with the prettiest cupcakes I've ever seen, among other needed things. Later that night I read more of Inkdeath and pondered on how I let myself get such a huge stack of books from the library. Oh, and I took some pics of myself because I was just plain bored, and I like to do that. :p This is my favorite one. I also edited it with my favorite lyric from All These Things That I've Done, by The Killers, I love them right now.

Speaking of Inkdeath, I am devouring this huge book. I love it, but it makes me sad to know that I'm nearly done with the trilogy. It's one of my favorite ones, ever. I've been reading a little over a hundred pages a night, trying to pace myself. I'm on page 441. I'll probably be finished by tomorrow night. One of my predictions has proven wrong, but another has proven right, and I am thrilled over that! I'm really excited to find out what happens with this story, and how Mo is going to get away, if he does! Eek. I don't like thinking about Mo not getting away. I also want to find out if they stay in the Inkworld. And I hope someone kills Mortola. I just hate her. Oh, you know what I would love to see one day from Cornelia Funke; is a book on the Inkworld that they are in, like Fenoglio's story. I would so love to read that. I hope she writes it someday. I truly do. I think that would be wonderful.

I saw the first (to me) Inkheart trailer on TV last week. I was thrilled, and not so thrilled. Because it looks like they strayed from the book, a lot. And I hate that. Immensely. But who knows, perhaps it will turn out to be good. I hope. Even if it stinks, at least I'll get to sit and stare at Andy Serkis and Brendan Fraser. :p

That's pretty much all I can think of right now, so I shall end it here.

Ugly Day.

Well, I didn't do the read-a-thon after all. I knew I wouldn't when I woke up in the middle of the night sweating and wanting to throw-up because (oh yay) my *woman's troubles* decided to show up. I ended up sleeping in and then being woken up by my mom because we had to go to the laundromat. While walking out to the van to put our clothes in there and drive off, my favorite pair of sunglasses broke. They were hanging out of my pocket, and apparently the basket leaning against them made the whatcha'-call-it part that rests on your ears to friggin' help hold them on your head, went through the lens and popped it out and cracked the frame. So now it has to be glued (not seeing a bright forecast for this), or, I get another pair. I loved those sunglasses. :( They were perfect. When we got home, one thing led to another and became a busy day.

I hope I have better luck with the next read-a-thon, because I definitely plan on signing up again, and holing myself in my room with a big stack of books that I hope to get through, and just stay in the literary world until I get hungry and possibly need a shower.

I hope everyone else had a great-read-a-thon! :)

Also, I had my own challenge catch-up idea. I just feel like I should have read more books lately, my read count should be higher, but it's not where I wish it was, so I'm going to start using my time more wisely, watch way-less (daytime) TV (too many distractions at night: dinner, family, quick house-tidy before people get home, etc.), spend way less time on-line - a few minutes quickly turns into it's blah o'clock already? So yeah, I need to discipline myself more. Then, hopefully, my read count should climb, & I can visit the library more often. :p

Last night wasn't a total waste though. After I took a shower, I went into my room at about ten o'clock armed with a king-size snickers bar and a bottle of water and disappeared, and I read more of Inkspell. I am loving that story. I'm a little worried about Inkdeath though because it's already in transit to my library, and it's always been good for me to take a break during a series/trilogy. I hope don't get tired of the characters, but I don't really think I will because, I still have two other library books to read on my nightstand. (Frederica by Georgette Heyer, and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.)

So, that's it for now.

My Left Foot.

I found Christy Brown's auto-biography, My Left Foot, to be particularly interesting at this point in my interest for him. Though I wouldn't exactly say it was completely touching, it did have it's moments.

Quite different from the movie, and more enjoyable in my opinion. They are conflicting in many ways, which I did not like at all. Frankly the book makes the movie look like crap. I don't know just how many differences in the movie are true or not, but I intend to try to find out. Especially with the help of another new-ish book that has come out about his life, by Georgina Louise Hambleton. Which I found right here: on Amazon. I hope to order it for my birthday in a couple of weeks so I can find out what her book about him has to say. She says she has interviews and such from his family, and friends as well if I remember correctly. (Family is a definite.) So I hope it will be interesting, and from reviews and such that I've read on it already, I have no doubt it very well will be. Perhaps it will help show how things really were for him and his wife and in other events in his life, as I believe the movie did not. I think they sort of veiled things so it will look happy and sweet - which it did come across as, but that doesn't make it okay because I'm not so sure anymore that the film makers were very truthful, no matter how small or big those parts were.

I'm still (slowly) reading Down All the Days, and I'm also reading another of his poetry books, which I am absolutely loving; Background Music: Poems. I am so glad I got his poetry books (though some of the poetry repeats in the different collections of them, ah well), I am very picky about poetry and his just sweeps me away. So it's been good to find another poet I like, when I have so very few favorites of something I positively live for.