It's Wednesday!

...What's Wednesday mean?  I completely just forgot... music monday, intro tuesday.... fucker... [storms out to check, grumbling]  BOOKS!!  That's it.  I forgot, obviously.  Whoops. My bad.

So I finished How I Became Stupid, and I liked the ending a whole lot.  It was quite amusing, as a matter of fact... although it did seem a little unfinished.  I think I give it....4.3 stars. (Of 5, obviously.)
Still reading Mistral's Kiss, but I'm almost done with it.
Deathwish is still just kinda sitting in the pile of stuff I carry everywhere...waiting for me to get to it.  Sorry, Cal; I'll read you eventually.

Today I think I'll talk about Generation Dead, and the sequel, A Kiss of Death--which I haven't finished yet, obviously.  Generation dead is about how all of a sudden, teenagers are dying...but not really.  They're coming back as zombies--ahem, my bad, "living impaired."--and some of them function quite well, others hardly at all.  They talk slow, have monotone-voices, and are, of course, quite pale.  However.  Anyway, there's a lot of controversy over the whole dead-kid issue thing and whether they were now citizens or not or whatever.  Some of them don't want to be with "the beating-hearts" and some of them do.  It's hard to really describe.  Regardless, the plot and writing style make it a really intense read, keeping you on pins and needles page after page until you've burned through the whole thing and you're left sitting there going, "Hey, hang on a minute!"
So then you get your hand on the sequel, A Kiss of Life.  And the intensity hasn't dropped at all.  It's still pins and needles through this thing--it's a wonder I got it put down, haha.  I guarantee, it'll be the first I pick up when I need another book.

So that's it for the week!  Short, I know.  I'm sorry.

Until next time, with love,
--Emily
~~xoxo~~

(sorry; no playlist again.  I've taken to writing these at night when it's unavailable.  I'll try to change it up one of these days and give you some music again.  kay?  ^.^ loves!)

Saturday!

It's been a long, lazy day during the course of which I've been called twice to see if I could go work.  I said no, actually.  I needed to be around just in case someone needed me to bring them somewhere or something.  It's harvest; shit needs to get done quickly.  It's just how it is.

So there's not a lot to report.  I'm now a deviant--in other words, I have an account on www.deviantart.com --and imvu is great for meeting goofballs.  (It's a 3D chat game thing...kind of amusing to play with sometimes.  Pointless? Oh, but of course.)


Anyway... umm.....I really need to finish reading How I Became Stupid tomorrow.  It's due on the 25th and I'd like to have it done before that.  I don't have much of it left, though, so it shouldn't take too long.  I'm hoping Antoine decides that he was better off being intelligent...just saying.
11:11--make a wish.
Does anyone actually believe that?  I don't.  My best friend started me on doing that last year, and since then, I do it most of the time if I catch it, but I don't believe it.  I'd like to, but nothing ever comes true.  So... C'est la vi.  Whatever.


Is a wish technically a prayer, just by another name?  You're kind of asking for something....to nobody in particular, except...well, God, considering everything is of God.  But now we're getting into some heavy theology and I'm not going to make you hate me just yet.  Because I have my opinions and nobody I've talked to seems to really like them...  Oh well.  It's what I believe.  I'm not into this whole organized religion thing.  It's when it gets organized where corruption comes in.  And man, I'm tellin' ya; I've experienced the corruption in church.  Trust me.


Anyway...that's a discussion for another time.  Definitely not now, or here.

Videos of the week!:
All Time Low--Dear Maria, Count Me In http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcNiKCmWdYE
ATL--Poppin' Champagne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNX6QeFBEYQ
ATL--Six Feet Under the Stars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDg5xhyS3js
ATL--Weightless http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpG3BxRctQ4
HP Puppet Pals--The Mysterious Ticking Noise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4
the last because, though I've seen it a million times, it's still fricken hilarious.  One year when I went to music camp, a group of kids did that skit for the talent show.  I laughed.  A lot.  It was great.  C=

Until next time, with love,
--Emily
~xoxo~

(no playlist because this computer is being STUPID and won't play my radio station. [pouts])

Reading Wednesday

So....I totally missed yesterday.  Oops.  But I had work til 10 and when I got home, I just really didn't feel like bothering....so sorry. My bad.  Oh well, though. You'll go a week without a public figure, won't you?  I'm sure you'll make it.

So I'm only going to tell you about "How I Became Stupid" by Martin Page this week, because I told you about the other two I'm reading last week.  I could bring in "A Kiss of Life" but I think I'll save it until I'm back into it, okay?  Okay.

So...so far, Antoine has decided that intelligence is a disease, and he's very much afflicted.  So first he decides he's going to be an alcoholic, only a physiological difficulty makes that impossible.  (He got alcohol poisoning after half a glass of beer.  Keep in mind this is a book, although I'm sure it's possible.)  So then he decides he's going to commit suicide, because he figures he'd much rather be dead than alive...Only he goes to a class on how to do it, and at the conclusion of the class, he decides that, though he's not so enthused about being alive, he doesn't wish to be dead, either...
So finally, he arrives at the conclusion that he wishes to be stupid.  Because, quote: "ignorance is bliss."  So his doctor (funny story there, actually) gives him a prescription for "Happyzac"--real? fictional?--which is supposed to be some kind of stupidifying anti-depressant.  I'm still working on the results with this, but his friends are all concerned for him.  I'm not so sure about this guy, myself...  But I've only got a few dozen pages left to go--it's a short book--so I'll have it finished by the due date, at least.  [=  And then I'll have read another book that Harri has, and my life shall be one step closer to complete.  Haha, I'm kidding.

But that was awfully short....I'm tempted to bring up A Kiss of Life... perhaps I'll just recommend reading Generation Dead and leave you with that, hm?  Interesting book.  My friend had a hard time following it, but I didn't.  It's pretty intense, though.  Good read, however; definitely a good read.  I enjoyed it.  Thoroughly.  I kind of predicted the ending, in a way, but... oh well.  You're so wrapped up in what's happening per paragraph you don't have time to sweat predictability--which there isn't much of, really.  So yeah.


Until next time, with love,
--Emily
~xoxo~

(No playlist, because I wrote this in bed and in like, 20 minutes tops.  So there.  Ha.)

Novel Wednesdays!

Yay! It's time to talk about books. Always a topic I thoroughly enjoy. Haha, it happens when you're a bookworm. C=

So anyway. At present, I'm reading three different books. Well, two, and I just started one.

I'll start with the one that I'm reading most often--e.g. the one I pick up more times than the other(s): Mistral's Kiss--Laurell K. Hamilton

Preceded by A Kiss of Shadows, A Caress of Twilight, and Seduced by Moonlight,it's a continuation of a quite impressive--and intriguing--story line that I haven't been able to stray away from. I won't deny that they're graphic...in both senses of the term used here. There is a lot of violence in these books--about as much as there is sex. Oh, dude, there's so much sex in these books it's pretty much like porno in print! But at least it's good sex. Hah, I know, I shouldn't really be saying that, but come on. The series is about the princess of the Unseelie Court of Faerie, Meredith NicEssus--who goes by the alias "Gentry" when she's hiding from the court in Los Angeles--in a race to get pregnant with her cousin Cel--who's trying to impregnate one of his harem--to take the throne from her aunt (and his mother) Queen Andais. Each book is riddled with assassination attempts on Meredith and her men, along with torture and battle and magic duels, et cetera. Steadily, the Unseelie Court is regaining the power that it lost over the years--from various causes, including moving from Europe to America--and so are the members of the royal guard, now Meredith's, rather than the Queen's....and it's because Merry is having sex with them. Well, sometimes; sometimes if they're just around when she's having sex, then shit happens, but now we're back to sex, and I'm avoiding that bit. ASIDE from the sex, Laurell (the author) is a brilliant wordsmith and artist. She paints the most beautiful--or macabre--and vivid pictures with her words, it's just incredible. I can see everything she describes in perfect clarity in my mind, and that's part of the reason why I love her so.
Not really a book I'd suggest to the weak of heart....or those who can't handle reading sex...and really macabre torture and such... yeah.

Book 2: Deathwish: Rob Thurman
Preceded by Nightwish, Moonshine, and Madhouse, this book concludes the Cal Leandros series in ever-more hilarious tension, sarcastic comments, and unbeatable action. (By the way, these really are my words coming out here. I could write reviews for stuff, no problem, haha.) I love this guy, partly because his writing style is like mine on a really good day--only all the time--and his sense of humor is nigh identical to mine. That, and I actually happen to find men's habits and thought processes and reasoning amusing. Don't ask me why, I don't really know, but I'm sure it stems of the fact that I'm a girl. Haha. Anyway. The books contain great characters, thoroughly developed, but with things that you either like being left ambiguous, or wish they weren't. I haven't finished it, though, so there may be a few more things discussed. I'm hoping on a couple of things. [= Anyway. The series is about Cal and his brother Niko living in New York and fighting monsters, meanwhile trying to evade and kill off the nastiest monster of them all: the Auphe. They're like elves, but the nastiest, most terrifying elves you could ever in your darkest nightmares come up with...so far as I can tell. The description of them isn't so terrible, but if you let your imagination run wild--as I so often do--they get pretty ugly. Anyway. It's a really good series, and one that I totally would recommend to about anybody. They're just great. [=

And I just started this book called "How I Became Stupid" but I don't remember the title because I just got it from the library today. I picked it up on a reccomendation of a friend of mine from Fargo, the ever-amazing Harri Boyd. That kid's just great. I love him. He's one of the best writers I know, and I aspire to be as good as he is. He doesn't read a lot of books, and he's got the same reason as I do, only he freely admits to being kind of conceited about his writing talent--which he kind of has right to be, but he knows that he still needs critique, which is the important thing--so he hardly ever finishes books. Fat Kid Rules the World--another book I forgot the author of--was one that he finished, and I read, and thoroughly enjoyed. Hawksong--no author again, sorry; too lazy to go look--was another, but someone stole it from the school library, so I haven't read it. But my best friend Tara read it several times and loved it, so... I'm going to say it was probably a pretty good book. I'll get around to it later, perhaps. We'll see.

Well, that concludes my reading material discussion for the week. Next Wednesday, I might let you know about How I Became Stupid. Or I might talk about something else. Who knows? It's all fair game in the big wide world of Emily's Bookshelf.
Ha ha

Until next time, with love,
--Emily
~~xoxo~~

Blog tracklist (courtesy of www.jango.com and my own library):
TiK ToK--Ke$ha
Rock is Dead--Marilyn Manson
Say Anything (Else)--Cartel
On and On (About You)--Bowling for Soup
Don't Count on Me--The Secret Handshake
Heart Surgery Isn't That Bad--Jeffree Star
One Thing is For Sure--The Spill Canvas
Gunslinger--Avenged Sevenfold
In Fate's Hands--The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Now or Never--Madina Lake
Do It For Me Now--Angels and Airwaves
Sleeping with Giants (Lifetime)--The Academy Is...
Breathe Today--Flyleaf
Boyfriend--Ashlee Simpson (I normally wouldn't admit her, but I like this song.)
Homecoming--Hey Monday