A writer's block that occurs because you can't find the next words to use is by far more infuriating than a writer's block spawned from being stuck on bridging a scene or figuring out what's supposed to happen next in the plot.
Currently Working on: Surface
Listening to: "Bless the Child" by Nightwish
Reading: Cinder by Marissa Meyer and Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Watching: Saw V
Drinking: Blue Moon Agave Nectar Ale
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Friday, August 2, 2013
Reading Log - July 2013
Much like last month, I really felt like I was slacking in reading during July. I only was able to finish three books, and of those three, two of them I read before. That does not mean that reading them again made them any less enjoyable; it just means my "to-read" list grew impossibly longer.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
So completes my quest to re-read all the Harry Potter books in order. Oh, Mrs. Rowling... What can I say to you other than this series is perfection? And Deathly Hallows is by far the best of the seven. The emotion, the relationships between the characters, the buildup to the final confrontation between Harry and Voldermort... you couldn't ask for a better ending to a phenomenal series. Reading through all the books at once - from the time Harry receives his letter to the final battle of Hogwarts - is an experience that all Potterheads need to experience again, and I know that no matter how many times I read this series I will never grow tired of it. I can't wait for the day when I get to read it to my own halflings.
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Airborn is the only book I read this month I have not read before. It's a quick- easy read about a young cabin boy and an adventurous girl trying to break away from the shackles of high society set in a lightly-themed steampunk world filled with airships, pirates, mysterious creatures, as well as lots of action sequences and well-written dialogue and characterizations. The best way I can describe this book is that it's like a Hayao Miyazaki movie, and anyone who's seen and enjoyed Castle in the Sky, Howl's Moving Castle or any of his other movies will absolutely devour this book.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
I'm cheating a little bit with Ender's Game because I didn't actually finish it before the end of July, but I'm posting now because I already read it years before. Although I read Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World in high school, I still consider Ender's Game my real introduction to sci-fi. I enjoyed the book when I was eighteen, and with the announcement of the movie I knew I had to read it again. The second read-through was just as good as the first, if not better, since I know that I had little interest in science fiction and even less with politics when I was a teenager (I'm certain there were lots of parts I probably glossed over at the time). It's a surprisingly fast read too, focusing more on the characters and human nature instead of being bogged down with a bunch of science and tech jargon that most people outside a physics classroom will probably never understand. I don't read a lot of science fiction, but the first book of its genre I'd recommend to anyone who asked.
So completes my quest to re-read all the Harry Potter books in order. Oh, Mrs. Rowling... What can I say to you other than this series is perfection? And Deathly Hallows is by far the best of the seven. The emotion, the relationships between the characters, the buildup to the final confrontation between Harry and Voldermort... you couldn't ask for a better ending to a phenomenal series. Reading through all the books at once - from the time Harry receives his letter to the final battle of Hogwarts - is an experience that all Potterheads need to experience again, and I know that no matter how many times I read this series I will never grow tired of it. I can't wait for the day when I get to read it to my own halflings.
Airborn is the only book I read this month I have not read before. It's a quick- easy read about a young cabin boy and an adventurous girl trying to break away from the shackles of high society set in a lightly-themed steampunk world filled with airships, pirates, mysterious creatures, as well as lots of action sequences and well-written dialogue and characterizations. The best way I can describe this book is that it's like a Hayao Miyazaki movie, and anyone who's seen and enjoyed Castle in the Sky, Howl's Moving Castle or any of his other movies will absolutely devour this book.
I'm cheating a little bit with Ender's Game because I didn't actually finish it before the end of July, but I'm posting now because I already read it years before. Although I read Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World in high school, I still consider Ender's Game my real introduction to sci-fi. I enjoyed the book when I was eighteen, and with the announcement of the movie I knew I had to read it again. The second read-through was just as good as the first, if not better, since I know that I had little interest in science fiction and even less with politics when I was a teenager (I'm certain there were lots of parts I probably glossed over at the time). It's a surprisingly fast read too, focusing more on the characters and human nature instead of being bogged down with a bunch of science and tech jargon that most people outside a physics classroom will probably never understand. I don't read a lot of science fiction, but the first book of its genre I'd recommend to anyone who asked.
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