Since coming home.
Dec. 24th, 2007 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfishThe last post was getting truly overlong, so I thought I would just cut it by theme.
Arriving at the airport, I was pounced upon by my loving family, who have proceeded to spoil me. Aside from some minor cleaning and going shopping with people, I've had nothing to do but sit around and read.
I've been catching up on the Twilight series. I read them out of order, starting with Eclipse in London because Emma had a copy, and then I bought the first two myself here because I couldn't get a copy from the library in time to actually read them. They're good popcorny books; I think they would have been more entertaining if I had not known the ending already, but I enjoyed them anyway.
They seem to have got me back on my juvenile literature/ werewolf kick again. I've just reread Blood and Chocolate for about the eighth time, and it sadly did not hold up as well as I thought it would to the test of time. I think the whole book would have been improved by putting it in the first person narrator- so much of the book is about the subjective feelings of the main character, but the third person narrative means that her thoughts and feelings are hard to separate from an objective voice. Essentially you get an unreliable narrator anyways, so why not go whole hog and actually immerse the reader in the story?
I've also taken up the first season of The Sopranos, and it's horrible and creepifying, but also strangely attractive. I really do *not* like the characters a lot, but for spots they actually seem like normal people, and then they just do something horrible. Gah.
Arriving at the airport, I was pounced upon by my loving family, who have proceeded to spoil me. Aside from some minor cleaning and going shopping with people, I've had nothing to do but sit around and read.
I've been catching up on the Twilight series. I read them out of order, starting with Eclipse in London because Emma had a copy, and then I bought the first two myself here because I couldn't get a copy from the library in time to actually read them. They're good popcorny books; I think they would have been more entertaining if I had not known the ending already, but I enjoyed them anyway.
They seem to have got me back on my juvenile literature/ werewolf kick again. I've just reread Blood and Chocolate for about the eighth time, and it sadly did not hold up as well as I thought it would to the test of time. I think the whole book would have been improved by putting it in the first person narrator- so much of the book is about the subjective feelings of the main character, but the third person narrative means that her thoughts and feelings are hard to separate from an objective voice. Essentially you get an unreliable narrator anyways, so why not go whole hog and actually immerse the reader in the story?
I've also taken up the first season of The Sopranos, and it's horrible and creepifying, but also strangely attractive. I really do *not* like the characters a lot, but for spots they actually seem like normal people, and then they just do something horrible. Gah.
