I think we'll still be traveling together

Reaction Post: much unlike a reaction paper...so uncomfortable. well, my simple reaction to this one fourth of one year assignment is: Good try. I like blogging, mhmm. But nobody reads anybody else's blogs, and that makes me sad. I could start I guess, but I'll just do a book report instead. I think I'll talk for a minute about...reading. I think this assignment definitely made me read more consistently. my usual habits include starting a book, reading it for a couple days, starting another book, reading it for a couple of days, starting 8 more books, and then I'll finish one and remember that I should finish those other books too. and then I'll read a lot, like a lot for a week or so and then stop (and thank you, baby). ah yes, how truly sweet it is.
The books I read:
Breaking Dawn. oh yeah I forgot about this one hm.
East of Eden. probably one of the longer books I will ever read. but I loved it, I really did.
Pygmalion. so that's how it goes.
The Stranger. I feel like this book needed to be longer, but I liked it.
Of Mice and Men. I thought that that phrase came from the book. no, other way.
The Great Gatsby. I'm still reading this.
Total reading time: about 38:38. I'm sure those 38 minutes are correct.

you know, I think I'll keep this blog. It can be my statistics blog. how much I read, how much I run, wins/losses etc. ok well, have fun everybody.

This is to commemorate my fourth post this week

The Great Gatsby is really good. I forgot to talk about the introduction in my last post. "...the twenties, which have become trivialized and vulgarized by people who weren't there...The Twenties were not a ten-year binge during which everybody got rich and danced the Charleston in speakeasies while drinking bootleg hooch." I lol'd haha there goes all I know. I'm liking parties and whatnot. yay parties and whatnot. I'm on page 50. I read for two hours.
so total for this week: 5!

if this would happen to be the last post of this assignment, my total numbers come out to about 38:30. mhmm.

If you're listening

I went to the book sale at the fair grounds this weekend. I could only go for like, 15 minutes so I didn't really find anything. I was looking for a specific type of book. These pictures are an example of what are called Pelican Books. oh my gosh they're so cool. I pretty much just love the graphics. they're little books on specific topics. I found some in Madison at this used bookstore. I didn't buy any. I was sad. anyways. Interesting fact: you know when we watched Fahrenheit 451? a lot of the books they burned were pelican books. oooo. censorship. well, I read my bible last night for one hour. I read psalms 75-I think 85ish. and then I just read some of my hi-lighted passages. I always just go back to what I know. but I love it. so, if you're keeping tabs, this is my third post this week. yeah.

Up for Two.

I made a movie with my dear Lauren Eaton today. She was playing Bethy. I was a crazy person. I think I just acted like Bethy. haha funny. about reading I guess. Still with The Great Gatsby. I don't feel like talking about it. I'm using this title again because I need to. One more hour. hahaha.

My Number One.

woot. first blog comment. unfortunately, I like blogging a lot, but nobody reads this. it's really sad. oh wells. oh wels. awesome religious discussion about Jesus Christ Superstar. I don't think Joe got it. anyways. I read Albert Camus's The Stranger, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. I forgot if I mentioned that or not. Of Mice and Men is good though. I like John Steinbeck a lot. I should probably read The Grapes of Wrath. but yeah. this is probably the last week of blogging right? well. OH MAN. I need to quadruple pot yet!!!!ah!!!! well. I'll just post four times. I also am reading The Great Gatsby. yay. I liiiiike it. classic. so, I read one hour. yay.

even if you don't mind.

poor shithead. hopefully Mr. Strusz gets why that's funny. otherwise it's just completely inappropriate. anyways...I read The Stranger by Albert Camus in probably like and hour and a half. I don't know, it was a good book, but I don't really feel like I got that much out of it. I mean, it wasn't all that "entertaining like all nonfictions are" right?...not so much. I think a little like him, so maybe that's why I didn't really care that much. It's more interesting if it's not the same thing. Other than that...I took a nap at 9 o'clock last night. not a good idea. I guess I'm just used to not sleeping.

and our best laid plans will stand alone on our side.

So last week was pretty much a blog failure. I meant to post four times, but I just didn't. But! I did finish East of Eden finally and finally feel compelled to actually say something about it. see, I don't like when I have to say how I feel about a book if I haven't gotten through the whole book. it's just a thing. I also don't like when people rephrase me because I said it right the first time. I don't care if it didn't make sense. I don't care if this doesn't make sense. anyways, East of Eden is overall a good one. I'm a big fan of perspective. and this one had a lot of good perspective. People are crazy. We're all just crazy; perspective shows that. So you choose your line, and you live above it. So close to that breaking point...Not as widely practiced and preached eh? "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." or maybe your limbo pole is just a bit lower than that...ya poltroon. I've taken to using a dictionary as I read. You don't get the whole story if you're not positive of what the words mean. The majority of the time the words you don't know won't really affect the story as a whole, but you can completely misunderstand a sentence, and that's just not the point. I'm also a big fan of Essays. They're probably my favorite things to read. I love when you can quote something and use it. It just makes me feel like my quality of life has improved. I'll have to rerent it from the library. I wrote down page numbers, but forgot to check them. ahI guess I've lost my compelition to comment. I always do that. I think of something I want to say and then I just never say it. but I know what it is. So second aspect of my blog failure is the whole finishing up books that I've started thing...I finished one. So in turn, I checked out three more books from the library today. "Every man has a view of what it will be like to be retired...or reads the neglected books he always pretended to have read." So I was thinking, when do people really read all of these books? and really, when are you going to discuss them? or when am I going to remember to throw a book reference in there? oh wait. I think about book references all the time. never mind. haha. "I never read. I hate reading. oh wait...that's a total lie." I'm already halfway through The Stranger by Albert Camus. and then I also checked out The Great Gatsby and (TITLE TITLE TITLE) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. [The bridges that stand between you and I Come over tonight When the pen in our hands and our best laid plans Will stand alone on our side Of mice and men on our side. We the Living love!] So I don't even remember how many books that puts me at. I usually maintain a steady eight I think. Mime done.