Review: One Massive Catch-Up
Dec 28, 2008 Books
Seeing as I am ghastly behind in reviewing a chunk of books I’ve read over the past few months and being unable to post them all, I’m going to do my brief blurbs all in one massive post, LOL. Because they’re all crammed into a single post, some of my comments are pretty generic and vague; to be honest, some of these books were read so long ago that I hardly remember my reaction to them. So beware, lots of spoilers ahead in this post!
Tags: books: classics, books: fantasy, books: review, books: russian literature, books: suspense
Meme: Booking Through Thursday
Dec 21, 2008 Meme
I came across this book meme site through Kris so I decided to start doing it too. Instead of doing it on my LJ however, I decided to do the memes here (it’ll give this blog some life while I’m at it, LOL) 
“Name a favorite literary couple and tell me why they are a favorite. If you cannot choose just one, that is okay too. Name as many as you like–sometimes narrowing down a list can be extremely difficult and painful. Or maybe that’s just me.”
Aww, man, too many to list! Let’s see if I can make a wee little list out of all my favourite couples…
- Anne & Captain Wentworth (Persuasion) — I absolutely love how, despite their years apart, they still care for each other and they still regard each other as “the one”. Plus, Wentworth’s letter was just guh, perfection.
- Margaret Hale & Mr. Thornton (North and South) — I love how they start off as disliking each other, then Mr. Thornton’s regard for her starts to grow and then finally Margaret realizes that she loves Mr. Thornton. It’s a process and I love how they come from different backgrounds and manage to come to terms with such differences and stuff.
- Cecilia Tallis & Robbie Turner (Atonement) — This couple absolutely kills me. Every time I read the book it’s just like OMG (I can’t even go into details without spoiling the book).
Do you give books as gifts?
To everyone? Or only to select people?
How do you feel about receiving books as gifts?
Yes, but it depends on who likes to read and stuff (not to mention I’d have to make sure that they don’t have that book yet or anything). As for receiving books, I absolutely love it! That’s like the gift for me, lol.
So yeah, I think I’ll be doing this more often…and hence this blog will be utilized more often, lol.
Short Story: 'A Legacy Revealed'
Dec 19, 2008 Writing
I wrote the following short story for UofT’s Crumpled Paper, a creative arts and writing magazine. The theme for issue X was “hybrid”. I was a little stumped at first as to what I should write about (what genre should it be? what should the short story revolve around?); didn’t help matters that I was incredibly busy at the time of the submission period. Ultimately this story came out of the confusion; I honestly can’t remember how I found the inspiration came for this story. All I remember is that the story hit me at 11pm at night and I just started writing. This story was a bit longer in the first draft but because the editors were asking me to keep it to a 2-page limit, I ended up cutting a bit of good dialogue down. Maybe I’ll post it up someday, we’ll see 
Tags: writing: short story
Short Story: 'The “Topsy-Turvy” Effect'
Dec 19, 2008 Writing
I wrote the following short story for UofT’s Crumpled Paper, a creative arts and writing magazine. The theme for issue IX was “tospy-turvy” (and hence why the title of this theme is present at the title of my story). I’ve been playing with certain elements that appeared in this story for a while now, was unsure how I would use it (though I did come to the conclusion that it would be playing out in a sci-fi premise). Then this theme came out for the magazine and I thought that maybe I can try and fit in these elements in a short story. I didn’t think that it would be printed, to be honest, but here we are.
Tags: writing: short story
Random: Still alive and now present
Dec 18, 2008 Ramblings
Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve posted around here; it’s just that school has been keeping me real busy these past few months. But I’m back now and slowly upgrading all of the programs attached to my website. Will likely start updating my website tonight depending on how much I can get done…should be exciting. The new WordPress looks far more impressive than the old one…will also likely be utilizing this blog a lot more as I’m thinking of merging some content from this section to here but we’ll see; got to clean this blog up a bit first
Tags: ramblings: website
