Tithe

Hi!  Spent a night reading Tithe while in Texas (favorite thing to doooo).  It was really good!  Kinda too much straight explanation going on, but really good.  It was kinda like a faerie version of Twilight.  I don't typically like faerie books, they're kinda woodsy and just not my type, but it had the better parts of Twilight in it, so I enjoyed it.  I loved Roiben (masochistic love stories... they turn me on... mwahaha), and Corny was kinda like a gay Jacob (aka Jacob minus Edward conflict).  It had a good solid, logical ending.  Yup, don't feel like saying much more.  Maybe later (you know I never do).

PS  Oh! And Kaye's a total badass, love her too.

Founding Brothers

Yup, my APUSH book (AP US History... for whoever reads...).  I finished it and the writing thing (still gotta edit edit edit, to be honest, I can't tell if it even makes sense anymore I've reread it so much).  So the book.  It was pretty interesting, I liked the story and the flow of things, I think it was part of his point that it flowed too.  First non fiction book I really haven't minded.  During the end I was only thinking of how happy I was to be done.  Very skimmy ;)

Looking for Alaska

I read Looking For Alaska today, which was something I'd been meaning to do for a while.  It's pretty good I think, I'm not sure if John Green knew from experience or what, but it was really enlightening about smoking and drinking and how people get started in it and how they feel about it.  Like, he starts smoking for "no good reason", just to fit in maybe, I don't know.  And drinking the same way, just to have fun with his friends and celebrate their prank victory.  I liked the personalities of him and the Colonel and Takumi and Alaska and Lara.  I wish Alaska would have had more description, because she's a lot like Bella in a sense- he never really describes her.  All we know is that she's petite, extremely "hot", and has green eyes.  Talk about objectifying women.  Ironic.  I wonder if that was intentional.  Or maybe I ignored the description. Hehe.  I tend to do that and make up my own, so I guess it's hypocritical.  But everyones always like ohh Bella sucks as a character because she's never really described.  I disagree?  She mentions her chocolate brown eyes, heart shaped face, brown hair, ivory skin, and I'm pretty sure she's like 5 1' or something... ALL THE TIME... like what the hell?  Not such a valid argument....  But yeah.  I feel like he did have that purpose in mind though, because otherwise he'd be criticized... a lot... of course I would too for standing up for Twilight.  But I digress.  Someday I'll write about my take on Twilight if I havent already.

Anyways, I had made it my goal to stay off the internet until I finished this book, which was actually at least like 5 hours of reading... I thought I read like 100 pages in an hour?  The words weren't that small.... I must have slowed down goddamn it.  I wish I had kept up my reading habit :(  Probably ended when my parents went skating unaccompanied by yours truly.  But yeah um and boyfriend was upset over sad cancer related things and a tonna youtube videos came up... I feel guilty but proud of myself.  I wish I could blame him for not allowing me to internet less because it feels good when I do... but I actually do want to see him.  Sigh.  And then Scotty and the games.  Oh well.  I need to figure this out because it really doesn't feel good to be so dependent on the internet or anything else.  Being dependent on books is oddly much more liberating... and yet again I digress.

SPOILERS

I had brought up how long it took because after what I thought was the climax, Alaska's death, it got slowwww because they just expressed their depression in SO many ways.  I liked the long lengths of time he cut out between "chapters" though because it really kept the book moving.  I wish he skipped some of the mourning though, it seemed to go on and on before they started finding stuff out about how she died.  I think the real climax is when they "give up" on her and find all there is to be found.  She needed to be let go of (sorry, preposition).  

END OF SPOILERS

Anyway byeee, I hope I read another book for my own sake?  Lack of internet's sake?  I HATE the fucking internet :(  It helps me so much and yet it feels so awful and wrong.  But what can I do?  boyfriend.