Aaaaand finished!

So, I finally finished Blood and Chocolate :)

I like the book and the movie for different reasons. For instance, I didn't like Book Aiden as much as Movie Aiden - maybe it has something to do with the age difference between the movie characters and the book characters. I'd like to re-watch the movie, because I haven't seen it in a while and I can't remember much of the plot.

Now, to finish I Capture the Castle... the problem is, I saw the movie before finishing the book, so I know how it ends :( But the book is better than the movie, although I liked the movie quite a bit. I was annoyed that they made Cassandra's brother Thomas a lot younger for the movie, though - in the book he's about fifteen, but in the movie he's more like eleven of twelve.

I still have an itch to start a new book, even though I have others to finish. I'm trying to stop myself from starting another book until I finish I Capture the Castle - I only have ninety-ish pages to go, and the font is pretty easy to read.

So those are my latest book adventures. Hopefully by the time I post another book-related blog post, I'll be finished I Capture the Castle!

Almost finished...

I'm almost done reading Blood and Chocolate.

It's about time, too. I started it a couple of summers ago and just couldn't sit and read it. But for the past month I've made a point of trying to finish it. Now I have about five pages left. Now, to finish Harry Potter 6, and I Capture the Castle...

I think I've decided to read historical fiction when I'm finished with Blood and Chocolate. There's a book that the library has called Crossing Stones by Helen Frost, which is set at the start of the first World War, and I added it to my to-read list on Ravelry and my booklist thing on my library's website, but never got around to reserving it. So, when I've finished Blood and Chocolate, I'm going to reserve it, I think. I also really want to read books I own that my parents got for me at Indigo, and some that I bought with gift cards from my grandparents.

Also, I really want to read some science fiction. This is partly due to the fact that I have a sci-fi story idea that I'm planning, so I want to familiarize myself with the genre. I've watched sci-fi, but have never read any. It would certainly be an interesting change from fantasy novels.

For traditional sci-fi, I'm planning on reading Starship Troopers, and for more of the YA sci-fi, I'd like to read Across the Universe, The Water Wars, and a few others. I'm also interested in dystopian fiction, so I plan to read some of that as well.

So: science fiction, dystopia, historical fiction... got any favourites? Feel free to comment :)

My computer sounds like an insect.

It has started rattling when it boots up. I don't know if this is normal or not, but eh, it's an old computer. That, and it was built for Dan (my sister's boyfriend) by a friend of his.

Valentine's Day hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. I got to sing 'All You Need is Love' in church - it wasn't a hymn, but it was the closing music, and everyone was encouraged to sing. At the end of the service, the congregation gathered together for a photo for this thing called the Standing on the Side of Love campaign that the UU churches are doing. And I wore my spiral scarf in the photo :D

I also ate chocolate (my parents bought these huge Toblerone bars the other day), listened to Beyonce's 'Single Ladies' and the J. Geils Band's 'Love Stinks', and read a bit of Blood and Chocolate while listening to Bruce Springsteen's The Ghost of Tom Joad, which I'm borrowing from the library. It's a really good album. It's kinda folksy-sounding; not as upbeat as most of his albums, but still pretty great. I reserved Nebraska from the library, and I'm curious to hear what that album sounds like. I'm going to reserve The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle and Tunnel of Love afterwards, when I don't have a lot of CDs out.

Blech

Okay, so I'm not literally wasting away, but I certainly feel like it.

I got some writing done, though. I started some Labyrinth fanfiction and worked on my Harry Potter fanfiction. I read a bit of Blood and Chocolate, too, but not a lot.

My right nostril is dripping, which isn't very pleasant. On the upside, U2 are on Letterman this week (I missed them last night, though... damn), and I have the entire DVD set of Are You Being Served? out of the library. I don't think I'll be going to youth group tomorrow, though... dammit.

Oh, and I've also been in love with this song lately...