The
clock on the wall is ticking steadily on. Watch the second hand makes its
round, now the minute hand is moving too, and now the hour is a thing of the
past. A blog waits for promised posts, the girl who has promised to write so consistently?
Nowhere to be found.
I
beg pardon, this girl is quite easily found. It is true, however, she is not to
be found with her fingers tapping away at her keyboard, but asleep on her
bed. She has gone off to have a long fall
nap, a winter hibernation, and as she is properly bear like, she is not to be
woken easily.
There
she goes, hiding from the sunlight in a mountain of blankets, a fan roars like
a hurricane, blowing the icy winds about her. The covers move, out pokes a bare
foot, testing the open air. Will she awaken? Is the sunshine enough to open her
eyes? Your question shows how little you know of Emily.
The
door to her chambers is opened, her mountain of covers has been destroyed by a merciless
hand. With a swift twist of a knob her hurricane has been silenced. “Emily, awaken!”
comes a voice, much too cheerful when used in such a purpose. Oh cruel world,
that wakes one with no true loves kiss to soften the blow.
On
second thought, even true loves kiss is most definitely not worth waking up
for. Sleeping Beauty and Snow White must have been awfully nutty.
As for Emily, she sleepeth
on.
I’m
listening to…
I'm reading...
Emily of New Moon: Oh, my dear L. M. Montgomery, you know I can only survive being parted from your books for so long. I remember a time when 'Emily of New Moon' was one of my least favorite, actually, but with each reading I love it more.
Common Sense 101 (Lessons from G. K. Chesterton): Again, a post due soon. Again, really a must read.
Party Shoes: NOEL STREATFEILD WROTE A BOOK THAT I HAVEN'T READ YET? MUST READ.
Decline and Fall: After reading Brideshead Revisited I've always wanted to read another of Evelyn Waugh's books. I'm excited to start this one.
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: I'm only about a hundred pages away from the end of this book. I've really enjoyed these. There's a couple that I've liked especially. My favorite are the few where he bamboozles you (isn't bamboozle an interesting word?) with some outrageous happening which turns out to be all the work of the character's imagination, and trickery of some other character. (The Offshore Pirate, Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les) I also quite like Bernice Bobs Her Hair. I just bought the movie Midnight in Paris which has Scott Fitzgerald as a character, so it's been fun to read some of his stories after watching that movie again.
Brideshead Revisited: I just really want to read this book again.
The Fault in Our Stars: I just finished reading this one and honestly I haven't really sorted out my thoughts on it entirely. I felt like the book captured the characters very well, without my ever feeling precisely fond of them. Perhaps simply because they and I would not be "Kindred Spirits," if we were to meet. We would have different life-styles, values and what-not. That doesn't make me not appreciate them, as characters I felt very much as if they captured a very real sort of person, and also exemplified the author's main focus of questions on life and death. I got rather tired of the amount of sentences begining with 'and' or 'but' (which really ought to be an exception to the rule rather than the rule itself) and fragment sentences. (I feel rather guilty writing this as I know I'm a far from perfect writer myself...but...) Anyhow, I'm still deciding what I really think about it, so enough for now.
A Picture thought I'm sharing...
I just felt like taking a picture of some crayons.
