My first entry.

Hi. I made this blog so I could read books and talk about them, because that is my favorite thing to do ever. I am awful at titling things, so consequently I agonized over the title of this blog for thirty minutes and will probably change it five more times. I also am not one of those clever, witty bloggers, although I do envy them greatly. I just like books.

I just finished the book Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson. I always end up feeling totally deceived by her books because they usually have such nice, friendly covers and then end up being just incredibly creepy. But in a good way. This book was a bit different than anything I'd read by her before because it was a set of interwoven short stories. All of the stories were based around Greek mythology, which I used to read all the time as a kid. The only problem I had with it was that the stories were almost too short - they were almost all beautifully crafted but often felt a bit abrupt.

I liked this line in particular: "Your children were like a knot of fear you carried around inside you all the time". That and the description of the lemons Marianne bought in Amalfi were both jarring and lovely.

Right now I'm working on a number of books, including The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips (difficult to get into so far, but I'll give it another go soon), Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood (I could blog for hours about that woman, and maybe I will sometime), and Napoleon's Buttons by somebody French (it's for AP Chemistry, but it's fairly entertaining in its own right). For my English class, I'm reading No Future without Forgiveness by former Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ojibwa Warrior by Dennis Banks, a prominent AIM leader, and Mohandas Gandhi: Essential Writings by the man himself. I always seem to have forty books going at once, but I like it that way.

I keep thinking about things I want to write about, but this is already rather long. Tomorrow I will discuss my Summer Reading Challenge, the rules of which I am still inventing.

Jesi

P.S. If you want to see a (very) small selection of the books I own, check out my Librarything. I am that cool.