Because of school, I don’t get to read as many books anymore. This bothers me somewhat, and the only book I have been reading (for class) is The Odyssey. It’s not bad, but I want to be able to have the time to read Life’s Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy or The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Books that I want to read, not books that I’m assigned.
I was able to get through The Stranger by Albert Camus, maybe because it was pretty short and easy for the eyes. It’s a weird book, though. The main character is very intriguing. My English teacher told me she had read the book because of “Killing An Arab,” the song by The Cure. I read the book because I needed something to read at the time, and this book seemed interesting. And it certainly was.
The last movie I watched was Control. Actually, I’m halfway through it, but before that, I watched The Fall with Lee Pace in it. He seems like such a quirky Prince Charming in Pushing Daisies, but in this movie, he’s much more introspective and I guess manipulative in a way as well. During the winter break, I familiarized myself with a Korean drama titled You Are My Destiny. It really holds your attention, I’d say, because it’s easy to catch on to and the plots are interesting. The first episode I caught was one where this woman’s daughter, Yuri, lied about being pregnant so that she could marry the family’s former driver’s son.
All in all, everything is going well.
