I got on a bit of a reading kick for a while, and finished 3 books…
and of the three, Room was excellent, Boom was alright but meh and Jacob's Ladder was absolute RUBBISH!! Huge waste of time, and I'm pretty good about finding the merits of a half decent story. Serously - run away.
I'm trying to read another right now about someone with Alzheimer's. I'm sure it'll be good when I get into it, but I'm having trouble sinking in. The book is called The Wilderness
. There's another that I was going to try to start too, called Windup girl
and I got about 5 pages into it and was bored out of my gourd with all the genetic food and made up language. I can only hope something drastic happens to make it more interesting. I'm sure it will if I have the patience to get through the first few chapters. It just feels too much like an post-apocalyptic documentary from the start. Granted, I liked The Postman (which is very much a post-apocalyptic diary).
It feels a bit like I can freeze time with a book. Or perhaps not so much time as circumstances. I can completely remove myself from the thoughts that haunt me, and invent a new world. My invented world has problems to solve, and sometimes multiple story lines that can occasionally cross paths as they resolve themselves in my mind.
I'd like to find some stories like The Time Traveler's Wife or Century Rain. Those were good books with very compelling stories. Both of which I was compelled to read by the look of the cover. I think that's why I went for The Windup Girl, because the name made me think of robots, and the cover was compelling. Hopefully the story will pick up once I regain the patience to pick it up again.
I've also been reading Click - and it's nearly finished. I don't know why I've been dragging out the last few chapters. I was really compelled by the information at the beginning, but now the rest of it seems so common sense. The studies and scenarios were fascinating, but now it's just stories to narrate the points that were made earlier on. I think I prefer to find narrations in real life myself for books like that. Read about the behaviour and discuss it with other likeminded individuals - who are happy to discuss the relevance in real life situations and make broad generalisations.
I think that's why I've been enjoying the Word at 10 sabbath school classes. The other guys that go there are much the same in how they like to analyse and generalise. It just happens that the book that we discuss every week happens to never really change. Thanks to a topic, though, we are able to have some really good discussions. The guys there are all pretty cool characters too. They all have their own little quirks that remind me of my mates at home. We're all a bit of nerd, one way or another, in that class it seems. I actually considered suggesting we change the name of the group to the thinktank - but a name really wouldn't define this group. We're all too interesting.
I'm planning on going to Mollymook with these guys just after my birthday. The same town as John and Di's holiday home. I actually asked him if I could bring Rachael down there once when we went on holiday around our Anniversary. When we went to Pidgeon house mountain.
Maybe I should let Di know I'll be in that area, in case she has any cleanup work down there that I could help with. I miss John. He was a good listener, and very genuine.
Oh, one other thing. I saw this girl who took daily pictures of herself levitating. Awesome idea. I'm going to start practicing so I can do that too someday. Anyone with a good camera want to catch me in my levitational state?
'night all.
-len
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