Thursday, May 21, 2009

Wi-fi is lovely

Especially when it comes from a consistent signal in one's own home, and not in faulty waves from...erm...the neighbors. The only downside is that the parentals go to bed earlier than me, so it gets shut off too early. Alas. Oh well, I shall have it during the day! Which means I might actually blog every few days - hurrah!

I wish I had a lovely short story to share with you, but all I can think of are a couple more emo poems in the vault of Google Docs. So either I will proceed to ramble, or freewrite a short. Or both, perhaps. My grandmother was buying the books a few days ago, so I got four. Four juicy, thick books. Yum. A quick rundown:

North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley: BUY IT. I don't care if you've never heard of it (though I suspect many of you have). It is one of the best books ever. Simply amazing.

Unwind - Neal Shusterman. Kind of scary, conceptually. Thought-provoking. Adventureous. The third-person present took me a bit to get used to, but I did, and enjoyed it. Excellent. Highly recommended.

The Summoning - Kelley Armstrong. Not my usual type of book. Involves teenagers with various supernatural powers. I liked the narrator. Fairly tough, but not a stereotypical tough girl at all. She has her moments. In paper back :D

Savvy - Ingrid Law. Pick the thing up and read it. The lovely Miss Erin has a great review of it. It's another one I will order you to buy. Yes. Buy. Gorgeous cover. Even better story.

Must. Freewrite. Something. First lines? Yeah.

1. He didn't like her smile.

2. My face is changing.

3. Don't get me wrong, I love my brother, but when he lays into the whole 'Luke-I-am-your-father' routine in the middle of the 59 diner, I usually disown him.

4. I sighed, shut off my car, and rolled down the window as the cop strode up, lights on his car still flashing. "Hey Dad."

5. If I had a real superpower, like flight or ability to manipulate metal, I might have avoided the whole bad-guy-chase scenario. But no. I ended up in a van with a sack thrown uselessly over my head because I could see in the dark.

Randomness concluded. Hasta luego!

4 comments:

Q said...

I love knowing that you're alive. I have placed holds on all the books I can. (My library needs to get North of Beautiful. Now. Or I need to randomly find seventeen dollars lying around so I can buy it as you say I need to.)

Polka Dotted Pickles said...

Hi! It's been forever. I am looking forward to following you and your blog once again! :)

Maya Ganesan said...

lol, I <3 those first lines. Especially #3 and 4.

Deb said...

I read Unwind and LOVED IT! :)

Debbie