| Friday, August 8, 2008 |
| midnight musings |
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midnight musings ...
Current mood: angsty
been having a hard time getting to sleep lately ...
among other reasons --- been reading way too many eerie stories full of silent angst, silvery ghosts, grandiose dreams, irreversible failure, & tales of unrequited love - no complaints, not really - i love reading too much to stop feeding my mind this darkly romantic prose ... i just hate that most of the books i've been reading have been killing off the characters i like ... let's take alice hoffman as an example (as a writer-sample, i mean, not a character) - she will make all this effort to perfectly round out a character - the entire novel would be so beautifully rendered that this character is someone who could very well be sitting next to you being your new best friend (or in some cases, becomes your litero-crush on this hot-ass piece of fiction) - and then, quite inevitably, she will kill this person off right at the height of your passion for them ...
i guess that's the point right? the story stays with me because this person is killed, maimed, or emotionally destroyed --- & i am left crying but applauding wildly for the pure talent that has wrenched this emotion out of me ... i am applauding mentally, of course, as per usual, i am reading a book during the earliest moments of the morning while everyone else in the house is swimming sweetly through their dream states ...
anyway ... the book i'm in the midst of isn't supposed to be depressing so ... we shall see ... maybe i'll get some sleep tonight ... :) ...
actually, i take that back ... my book-loving persona would much rather close my eyes at 4am tomorrow morning - coming off yet another sleepless night with another good book tucked into the folds of my memory ...
summer reads:
when the rainbow goddess wept
cecilia manguerra brainard
C+
{yeah ... wish this one had been a little better - i mean, it's filipino lit, right?
so i really wanted to like it ... but i just didn't ... i skipped around a lot on it ...
didn't really catch my attention - bummer :( ... }
three filipino women
f. sionil jose
A+
{if you're interested at all in filipino literature at all, DEFINITELY pick this
one up ... it's artfully done - i can see why many of his asian contemporaries
hail mr. sionil jose as one of the asian writers likely to earn the nobel prize for
literature ... it's awesome! there are 3 novellas in this book & each female
protagonist in the story symbolizes the Philippines as a country during different
eras of enslavement, revolution, & corruption ... yeah ... it's that f***ing deep -
it made me want to write a love letter full of adulation & amazement to the
author ... the last story is especially heart-breaking ... reminded me a little bit of
the melodrama found rampant in filipino movie-making ... but of course, that is
what filipinos love to do ... get all dramatic, i mean ... }
mermaids in the basement
michael lee west
C+
{ugh ... actually, i'm being generous ... i didn't enjoy this one ... at all ...
bummer ... i hate when a book doesn't come through for me :( ... it's a
betrayal of sorts, especially since i liked her last novel - crazy ladies - or
something like that - i've forgotten the title ... well - i guess this one
suffered from the sophomore curse or something - didn't know there was
such thing in literature! }
the third angel
alice hoffman
A
{awesome book --- there's a little bit of an unconventional ghost story in this one
- pretty awesome! i would definitely recommend this one! it actually made me
want to cry!}
blackbird house
alice hoffman
A
{as with many of a. hoffman's books, this one also has that supernatural
element ... i DO recommend this one - as well as the third angel - but there is
that ghostly theme running through this novel so if you don't like to feel nervous
about leaving your window blinds open at night for fear of some apparition
scaring the sleep out of you - then it would be best to stay away from this
book ... but oh, man! this woman can write! so if you aren't afraid of the dark -
read her books ... she's frickin' amazing!} |
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