-I Am-
Listening To:Fully Alive-Flyleaf
Reading:Just finished John Green's "Paper Towns"
Craving:Almond Joys
Thinking About:Sleep...
Quotes:
"What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know...I felt that by walking away I was abandoning [them], that I spent my entire life, day after day, abandoning people."
-Peter Cameron
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."
-Neil Gaiman
American Gods
"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then."
-Lewis Carroll
Alice In Wonderland
-Moosic-
Talking Heads
Oingo Boingo
Spiral Beach
Antsy Pants
Yellowcard
-Random Stuff-First off I want to say I am in love with Macs! I just deleted everything you see above this line... and was able to retrieve it through the power of a Macintosh. Life is good :)
-----Discovered
Goodreads.com whilst googling a quote last night. I'm in love! Check it out my screen name is
Raindrops.Wash.Us.Clean☂ . You're pretty much able to keep track of every book you've read or someday want to read with this site. You can write reviews, keep track of your favorite quotes and add them to the database if they aren't already there, and follow your favorite authors pages! It's a wonderful wonderful wonderful site!
-----Eeeek! So normally I'm a very happy person when I finish a book, but I was up to an ungodly hour (not even going to disclose this uber late hour) finishing my audiobook of John Green's
Paper Towns. Apart from needing to sleep in this morning it was worth it. I really loved that book. I had started reading it at a bookstore and subsequently got it from my library's online digital loans and was able to put it on my MP3 player.
I wasn't too big a fan of his first book
Looking For Alaska. It was good, and had good moments, and a few incredible quotes but all in all after reading it (about a month ago) it hadn't exactly met my expectations... whatever those were.
Paper Towns however received an E, for Exceeds Expectations of course *for some reason had to make a Harry Potter reference right then*. I fell in love with the characters and the idea of paper towns both the real ones and the metaphorical ones that one of the main characters explained as:
"Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters." (John Green, Paper Towns)
Sometimes that's what I feel Phoenix is, a paper town in that sense. I consider myself quite lucky to have met the few non-paper people I have here because I don't think there are that many. People move here to escape from things, and that makes them paranoid and very very paper.
Anyway, I John Green writes well especially in this book, and I recommend it. I already have a stack of books waiting for me to read them but I think I am going to add Green's
An Abundance Of Katherines to the list.
Which makes my current reading list as follows:
Neverwhere-Neil Gaiman
Smoke and Mirrors-Neil Gaiman
Dracula-Bram Stoker
Opus Ultimum:The Story Of The Mozart Requiem-Daniel N. Leeson
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower-Stephen Chbosky
Th1rteen R3asons Why-Jay Asher
Feel free to help me add to this list :)
-Halloween- Halloween was nice. I'm sorry but I neglected my duty to take photos...
My wonderful friend
Lauren and her brother came over. This has become something of a tradition. I have not spent a Halloween without Lauren since before I was ten!
I didn't even pick a costume until two seconds before we went out to trick-or-treat, yes I eighteen and Lauren nineteen still trick-or-treat lol. I ended up deciding to be a dancer since I have no shortage of fluffy skirts and old pointe shoes (which were definitely a mistake since my feet were ready to fall off by the time we made our trek home). Lauren was a black cat absolutely adorable! And My brother (Lauren's decided not to trick-or-treat) was Facebook (Did anyone else see that last episode of The Office?). Almond Joy seemed to be the candy of choice for people this year which made Lauren and me very happy :) After we filled our bags we came home and ate some homemade shepherd's pie, played Super Smash Bros Melee, and watched part of Oceans Eleven, all in all I enjoyed the night.
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Fashion Dump
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Hope you all enjoyed you Halloween's and Dia De Los Muertos'!
Happy November!
'Til Next I Post.
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