100 Books in 1 Year

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Book 12 - Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Written by Anne Lamott

First published in 1994 by Pantheon Books

Hello everyone!

You've been gone for over a month and your opening line is "Hello everyone"?

Well, yeah..I mean..what else am I supposed to say? That I was extremely busy this past month and barely read a thing? Or that I've been wanting to update since the beginning of January but I haven't because I was afraid that all the nice people on Typepad would be all mad at me for being a bad blogger and not updating more often?

Yes. You could have said precisely that.

I kinda just did.

Well..yes. Chip chip, cheerio.

...I don't know why my inner voice has an English accent. Anywho..

I'm back! For good this time. What I said up there was true ^^^^. The more I put something off, the worse I feel, and the less I actually want to do it. So..basically..I just give up altogether. But nope, not this time. I came back! And I have more books to read then ever! So shall we start again? (not all over, but from where we were before) Alright! Here we go!

Onto book numero 12: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott!

My cousin gave me this book to read in November and it's taken me this long to start reading it. Grrr. But the important thing is that I finally did! I and lurvveee it. The things she writes about are so true! She talks about how when you sit down to write, you have to quiet all the voices in your head and sometimes it can take hours. But, eventually, you figure out what to write and how you're going to write it..and it may turn out really crappily (..that's not a word, is it?) but at least you're getting somewhere.

It's kinda like this post I'm writing: it isn't very good, but, hey. It's a start, right?

 

Ah, perfection..

via www.youtube.com

Listen..and breath..and dance

Book 11! Yay!

Book 11 - Northanger Abbey

Written by Jane Austen

First published in 1818 by I have  no idea

 

Yay yay and thrice yay! I finally finished Eat, Pray, Love! I finished it last night at 5:48 (I looked at the time when I finished, obviously..I was really excited that after like, 3 whole weeks I finished it! YAY!) I thought it was excellent. Very spiritually awakening. It made me want to meditate. A lot. And go to Italy and eat pasta. A lot. But who doesn't?

I highly recommend this book to anyone who's ever been in a tough spot in their life and just wants to go do something to get their mind off of things, or to start over.

I would have updated last night to tell you how excited I was about finishing it, buuuuttt...

..I was too busy headin' over to Yorba Linda to pick up this adorable little ball of fluff and scruff. Isn't she adorable???

It's a Christmas miracle!!!

We weren't planning on getting a puppy anytime soon, really. It's just that we've been looking at ads on Craig's List(just for fun, mind you) and then we saw her, and before we knew what was happening, we were in love. So now we have 2 dogs: Biscuit and _______(insert name of puppy here) ((we haven't decided on a name yet. Any suggestions?))!

Anyway, I shall move on to book 11 : Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen!

I love me some Jane Austen..I think she's amazing. She was considered very courageous in her time. A young woman writing novels? How silly they thought her. But alas, she was-as we say now-pretty dang awesome. 

"So what's it about?" You ask. Well, here's the overview: Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style.

Or at least that's what amazon says.

I started reading it yesterday and I'm already really into it. I didn't think I was going to be able to understand a word they were saying seeing as how Jane Austen can be-although still very awesome-a bit wordy at times. But I was mistaken. It's very..teenagery. Catherine is a very relatable character, as is Isabella(her best friend).

Anywho..I shall be off now. This was a rather long post. I think I'm going to go meditate..That sounds lovely.

Namaste.